Catchword: naco

Filed under: Spanish

Part of speech: adj.

Quotation: In México the word “Naco’ is a racisit term for an “indio,” thus not just “indio’ but almost like saying “nigger’.…I remember going to see “Y Tu mama tambien” with some Chilango friends of mine. They translated the word “naco” to “White-trash” my friend brought up and noted that it was actually the opposite of White trash. “Opposite” was the word he used. Opposite because “naco” is someone who is very indeginous and indegionus as if it is a bad thing. My definition could be different in that my Spanish is Southern Mexican Spanish, not cholo spanish, not Spanglish, and not big-city-pesudo-northern-Mexcio Guadalajara Spanish.… I stand by my comment it is just as bad as the word “nigger,” in my spanish. I did not grow-up in a chicano community nor in northern Mexico. In the Spanish of Mexico City and to the south of it, “Naco’ is a terrible racist term.

Article or document title:
“Cholo Word Of The Day—Naco” (URL)

Author:
“elenamary”

Article, document, publication, web site:
Daily Texican

Publishing location:
Dallas, Texas

Date of publication:
Nov. 23, 2004

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