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Mexican WhiteBoy is a 2008 novel by Matt de la Peña, published by Delacorte Press. [1] De la Peña drew on his own adolescent passion for sports [2] in developing his main character Danny, a baseball enthusiast. The novel, which is set in National City, California, uses Spanglish and has a bicultural theme.
This was originally a slang used to name people born on one of the other 30 States of Mexico that came to live to Mexico City, but now the meaning of this word has changed and now is a Mexican slang demonym for a person living in Mexico City that either was born in Mexico City or its surrounding areas or moved to that human agglomeration.
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“Mi’jo” is a universal Latino term of endearment. Pronounced me-ho, it’s a contraction of the words, “mi hijo” (my son). Its female counterpart is “mi’ja” (my daughter).
Güey (Spanish pronunciation:; also spelled guey, wey or we) is a word in colloquial Mexican Spanish that is commonly used to refer to any person without using their name. . Though typically (and originally) applied only to males, it can also be used for females (although when using slang, women would more commonly refer to another woman as "chava" [young woman] or "vieja" [old lady])
Even though the Mexican government didn't use racial terms related to European or white people officially for almost a century (resuming using such terms after 2010), the concepts of "white people" (known as güeros or blancos in Mexican Spanish) and of "being white" didn't disappear [64] and are still present in everyday Mexican culture ...
Naco (fem. naca) is a pejorative word often used in Mexican Spanish that may be translated into English as "low-class", "uncultured", "vulgar" or "uncivilized ". [1] A naco (Spanish: ⓘ) is usually associated with lower socio-economic classes. Although, it is used across all socioeconomic classes, when associated with middle - upper income ...