{"id":220947,"date":"2021-12-06T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T00:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/?p=220947"},"modified":"2021-12-05T05:18:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T05:18:45","slug":"slangs-speak-up-for-your-raza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprisma.co.uk\/es\/2021\/12\/06\/slangs-speak-up-for-your-raza\/","title":{"rendered":"Slangs: speak up for your raza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Slang is used both to stereotype minority communities, and used by minorities to assert their own identity, as the changing usage of &#8216;wetback&#8217; illustrates. <\/em><em>N.O.R.A. raps: \u00abTodos mis amigos en el block ahora stand up\u00bb. <\/em><em>A light-hearted account of the traps and the humour arising from learning a foreign language.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Minoria-raza-surreal-pixabay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-161505\" src=\"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Minoria-raza-surreal-pixabay-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Minoria raza surreal pixabay\" width=\"403\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theprisma.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Minoria-raza-surreal-pixabay-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theprisma.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Minoria-raza-surreal-pixabay-83x55.jpg 83w, https:\/\/theprisma.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Minoria-raza-surreal-pixabay.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a>Graham Douglas<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An article about Mexican stereotypes and slurs dropped into my inbox recently.<\/p>\n<p>Much of it written in dry and repetitive academic language (why is it that linguists, of all people don not write fluently?) but the subject began to get my interest and I Googled some of the words used: <em>pocho, mecha, gabacho<\/em>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t spic to me like that!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slurs are two-edged depending on who is using them. If a white USAmerican calls a Mexican a <em>spic<\/em> it is offensive, yet the same word can be used between Mexicans who know each other well to emphasize their social solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Slurs can be used by the people who were originally targeted to be politically assertive, \u00abwe are freaks (Hippies), or queers, or motherfuckers (the <a href=\"http:\/\/listverse.com\/2009\/08\/18\/top-10-notorious-american-biker-gangs\/\">Highwaymen<\/a> Bikers Club) &#8211; and proud of it\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jibaro <\/em>can be used to derogate a Puerto-Rican as a backward country hick, or on the other hand to assert pure ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes the opposite is true -when someone begins speaking in a very formal or erudite way to a friend a change of status is being signalled- I am more important or intellectual than you -mockery is implicit when we call someone &#8216;boss&#8217;, or in Portuguese <em>chefe<\/em> .<\/p>\n<p>And slang changes:<em> \u00abWetback\u00bb<\/em> or <em>Molhado<\/em> was once an insult but less so nowadays, as one Mexican immigrant said: <em>\u00ab<\/em>we are all molhados, it&#8217;s just a fact<em>\u00ab<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fantasia-diferent-surreal-pixabay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-161506\" src=\"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fantasia-diferent-surreal-pixabay-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"fantasia diferent surreal pixabay\" width=\"391\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a>And according to Lise Waxer, &#8216;J<em>ibaro&#8217; <\/em>can even be used <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.pt\/books?id=3UUVAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA177&amp;lpg=PA177&amp;dq=slang+lyrics+and+nuyorican+salsa&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=P7uIOumUR6&amp;sig=0a-jPS6bRXTYLjyKlKCRV-rzv-I&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj5zNa_n-jKAhVEVBQKHdi4B78Q6AEIJDAC#v=onepage&amp;q=slang%20lyrics%20and%20nuyori\">derogatorily<\/a> by Puerto Ricans about Nuyorican emigrants, as a way of saying \u00abwe in Puerto Rico have moved on, while you in NY are stuck in nostalgia for your roots\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>MEChA&#8230; This was a new word for me, but luckily Google has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalmecha.org\/\">answer<\/a> again, the <em>Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan<\/em>. Or does it? This gringo is getting confused: &#8216;tener la mecha puesta&#8217; is Mexican slang for menstruating.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of a stereotype implies something rigid, a straitjacket reducing the freedom of the persons targeted to be themselves &#8211; and Croom* cites evidence that this is just what happens, the emotional overload induced by being publicly humiliated tends to block our ability to think and respond creatively.<\/p>\n<p>Very handy for the person wielding the insult if they are accusing you of being stupid: then you just confirm their prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>Stereotypes can be slippery things, they change from one country to another, or even between cities.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00abLa raza\u00bb <\/em>in Spain refers to a Christian Spanish heritage beloved by Franco, while in Latin America it refers to Latino or Indigenous identity. \u00ab<em>La raza cosmica\u00bb <\/em>was invented by Mexican philosopher and Minister of Education Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos to describe the racial mixing of Latino people, whom he hoped would become a model of the future universal human race.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hongos-surreal-musr-pixabay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-161507 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hongos-surreal-musr-pixabay-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"hongos surreal musr pixabay\" width=\"342\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theprisma.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hongos-surreal-musr-pixabay-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theprisma.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hongos-surreal-musr-pixabay-93x55.jpg 93w, https:\/\/theprisma.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hongos-surreal-musr-pixabay.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a>False friends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyone learning a foreign language and trying to guess meanings from similar words in their own language soon runs into these.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s a question of local usage, as in the Portuguese <em>rapariga<\/em>, which is simply \u00abgirl\u00bb in Portugal, but widely understood as \u00abprostitute\u00bb in Brazil, while <em>moca<\/em> is a neutral term for a young lady in Brazil, but implies a servant or waitress in Portugal, and so is derogatory outside this context.<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes foreign words are so similar to yours they must be the same -you think- but try translating this into Portuguese or Italian: \u00abI am vegetarian because I don&#8217;t want preservatives in my dinner\u00bb, using &#8216;<em>preservativo&#8217;,<\/em> and you will soon find out why people are laughing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Spic-up-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-161464\" src=\"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Spic-up-7-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Spic up 7\" width=\"391\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a>Which brings us to humour <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Croom<em>, pocho<\/em> is an interesting derogatory word, which refers to someone who is between cultures, either a Mexican who has lost his Spanish and is becoming a <em>yankee<\/em>, or a USAmerican who has gone over the border too many times: which led me to the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocho.com\">www.pocho.com<\/a> (News y Satire), and some hilarious offerings, including &#8216;the top <a href=\"http:\/\/pocho.com\/activists-pocho-ocho-top-pickup-lines-for-valentines-day\/\">Valentines Day chatup lines&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it has a spoof story about the Mexican bestseller <em>\u00ab<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pocho.com\/50-shades-of-brown-novel-to-dominate-latino-erotica-market\/\"><em>Fifty shades of brown\u00bb<\/em><\/a>, originally titled <em>50 Tonos de cafe, <\/em>and soon to be serialised as<em> \u00abTe sigo pegando\u00bb<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The book starts with young Catalina Luna dating an older man in order to pay for law school so that she can \u00abgive back to her community\u00bb, and ends with a more \u00abculturally correct\u00bb relationship, summed up by Catalina sending him out to buy her tampons, as his love leads him to respect the indomitable &#8216;muher spirit\u201d&#8217;of the woman he once wanted to dominate!<\/p>\n<p>Just the difficulty of distinguishing vowels provides great scope for humour, as in the postcard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lol-jokes.com\/business-work\/other\/italian-abroad\">joke<\/a> of an Italian abroad: \u00abI go inna cafe, and the waitress bring me knife but no fock, I say &#8216;I wanna fock&#8217;. She says \u00abeverybody wanna fock\u00bb. I say, \u00abyou no understand, I wanna fock on the table\u00bb, she say \u00abyou betta no fock on the table you dirty sonavabitch\u00bb, etc!\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Or the daughter now living in LA <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ABC_Univision\/Entertainment\/nuyorican-la-accents-slang-words-attitudes\/story?id=17549956\">teasing<\/a> her mother&#8217;s NuYorican English accent, \u00abMommy, say the ship sells cheap shoes for sheep\u00bb. Mommy says \u00abF*ck you!\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>NuYorican , or Puerto Rican English spoken in New York City is a feature of a lot of Rap, as N.O.R.E sings:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Children-and-6-Pixabay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-158809\" src=\"https:\/\/tucuentavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Children-and-6-Pixabay-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Children and 6 Pixabay\" width=\"390\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>Todos mis Latinos en lo block ahora stand up, (All my Latin friends on the block stand up)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oye mi canto con el N.O.R.E e ahora den bum (Hear my song with N.O.R.E. and move your ass).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Language expresses identity, and some vocabularies are designed to exclude as well as communicate. For immigrants especially this makes the way people talk -and sing or rap- a battleground, for individuals and ethnic groups as a whole. Salsa music was a cultural fusion of Puerto Rican, Cuban and Dominican music that happened in New York. And marketing enters the picture too. The first Salsa bands were close to their audiences, including playing on the streets, but by the 80s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salsa_music\">Salsa<\/a> was becoming homogenised to make it appeal to a bigger market, as can be seen by the change between the two films put out by Fania Records: \u00ab<em>Our Latin thing\u00bb, <\/em>subtitled<em> \u00abNuestra cosa\u00bb<\/em> and then <em>Salsa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Send us your contributions to <a href=\"theprisma@theprisma.co.uk.%20\">theprisma@theprisma.co.uk.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*With thanks to Adam Croom: Spanish Slurs and Stereotypes for Mexican Americans in the USA: A context-sensitive account of derogation and appropriation. \u00ab<em>Soprag\u00bb<\/em> (2014), 2(2): 145-179.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>(Fotos: Pixabay)<\/em><\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Slangs%3A+speak+up+for+your+raza\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/theprisma.co.uk\/es\/2021\/12\/06\/slangs-speak-up-for-your-raza\/\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slang is used both to stereotype minority communities, and used by minorities to assert their own identity, as the changing usage of &#8216;wetback&#8217; illustrates. 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