A History Lesson

Hey y'all (eww I hate that word lol) Anwyay, I'm back! Sorry for the delay...I may actually be headed down to Nicaragua now for a couple weeks in Dec. and then go back the beginning of February...I should know more about that tonight. Here's some interesting conspiracy theories about where the word "gringo" came from to keep you occupied in the meantime....

*Some say it came from a war (there is debate over which one), where Latin Americans would yell Green, go home! (since U.S. soldiers wear green uniforms). That was then shortened to green go, or gringo.

*Another funny one that makes me sad, too...in Mexico people call tortillas filled with pork and cheese gringos...the flour tortilla is white with brown spots, similar to white skin with brown freckles.

* Another one: They see money (green) and they go after it. Awesome.

*A much more boring, but probably accurate idea: gringo means foreigner in Spanish, which is most likely a derivative of the word for Greek--griega.

The whole reason for the slang word for a U.S. citizen as gringo stems from us being arrogant (per usual) and proclaiming ourselves "Americans" from "America," even though we make up a very small part of N and S America. And this, children, concludes our history lesson for the day!