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Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.
Spanish is the third most used language on the internet, according to the Cervantes Institute. ... 40% said they find this word offensive and 30% said they are less likely to support a politician ...
A European map of West Africa, 1736. Included is the archaic mapping designation of Negroland. Around 1442, the Portuguese first arrived in Southern Africa while trying to find a sea route to India. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The term negro, literally meaning 'black', was used by the Spanish and Portuguese as a simple description to refer to the Bantu peoples ...
Latinx is a neologism in American English which is used to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. The gender-neutral -x suffix replaces the -o/-a ending of Latino and Latina that are typical of grammatical gender in Spanish. Its plural is Latinxs or Latinxes.
Hispanic and Latino are ethnonyms used to refer collectively to the inhabitants of the United States who are of Spanish or Latin American ancestry [ 1 ] (see Hispanic and Latino Americans). While many use the terms interchangeably, for example, the United States Census Bureau, [ 2 ] others maintain a distinction: Hispanic refers to people from ...
A very common stereotype of Hispanic/Latino males is that of the criminal, gang member or "cholo". It is connected to the idea of Hispanic/Latinos being lower class and living in dangerous neighborhoods that breed the attitude of "cholo". Cholo and chola are terms often used in the United States to denote members of the Chicano gang subculture.
Mestizo (/ mɛˈstiːzoʊ, mɪˈ -/ mest-EE-zoh, mist-, [1][2] Spanish: [mesˈtiθo] or [mesˈtiso]; fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire. [3][4] In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also refer to people who are culturally European ...
Sambo (racial term) Sambo is a derogatory label for a person of African descent in the Spanish language. Historically, it is a name in American English derived from a Spanish term for a person of African and Native American ancestry. After the Civil War, during and after the Jim Crow era the term was used in conversation, print advertising and ...