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WHY LATIN PEOPLE CALL USA PEOPLE, GREEN GO?

Update:

THE COLOR OF THEIR UNIFORM

Update 2:

THE SOLDIERS OF USA WEARS GREEN UNIFORMS,WHEN THEY INVADE JUNGLE .

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Its what the Spanish people use to call foreigners from Britain.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    Gringo is just a derogatory way of saying white person. Or, at least, it is derogatory in their minds. The fact that Latinos are a third world people, means they can't really say anything that has any effect on white people, other than making it known they don't like white people.

    I could share some words white people use to describe Latinos in a less than flattering way, but calling them Latino is derogatory enough.

  • 3 years ago

    Gringo means foreigner.

    It has nothing to do with the word green.

  • 3 years ago

    Latin Americans are supposed to derive their expression "gringo" for any Anglophone from the popular folk song "Green grow the rushes O", but this is probably just folk etymology.

  • 3 years ago

    The word is 'gringo', and it comes from the practice that some US soldiers had of singing the song 'Green Grow the Rushes, O!' when they were marching. The Latin people then began to call American soldiers 'gringos', because that was the nearest that they could get to 'green grow'.

    Source(s): https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gr... [Scroll down to definition 4.]
  • 3 years ago

    idk but its gringo not greengo

  • A.L.
    Lv 5
    3 years ago

    lol no. nonono. Not Green go. IT'S GRINGO! xD lol Gringo is basically just a derogatory way of saying "non-latino" particularly referring to white Americans. Kinda like how Hawaiians call non-Hawaiians "Haoles." (how-leez)

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    someone will inevitably ask me where I'm from in a way that suggests I'm not from the good ol' U.S. of A. In other words, imagine having to constantly tell people that you're made of two colors: blue and yellow, but all people see is green, and you constantly have to go in ...

  • 3 years ago

    Do you mean Gringo !

  • ?
    Lv 4
    3 years ago

    Gringo, and no, not all Latin people say that.

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