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[11] However, it is also cultural, with "Mexicans making fun of a Chicano's inability to speak 'proper' Spanish and conversely" Chicanos and cholos sometimes using interethnic pejoratives against Mexican migrants, such as "chuntaro" and "wetback." [11] Cholo style graffiti is a unique writing and lettering style. [18]
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.
Cholo (Spanish pronunciation:) is a loosely defined Spanish term that has had various meanings. Its origin is a somewhat derogatory term for people of mixed-blood heritage in the Spanish Empire in Latin America and its successor states as part of castas , the informal ranking of society by heritage.
In 1554, the Spanish military first invaded Lacandon jungle, where the Lakandon Chʼol and other indigenous groups lived. At the end of the 1550s, the Spanish invasion forced the Chʼol and other Mayan groups into settlements called Reducciones. Eventually, when the reducciones were split, the Chʼol were sent to the North, to Palenque, Tilá ...
The word cholo, as used in various Latin American countries, referred to a person of mixed race from the lower classes. The origin of the cholo culture stems from the " pachuco " culture of the United States in the 1940s among the Hispanics there, which eventually morphed into the gangs that populate cities such as Los Angeles.
Cholo, a character from George A. Romero's film Land of the Dead portrayed by John Leguizamo; Cholo, a 1972 Peruvian film; Cholo; El Cholo Spanish Cafe; Cholo alethe (Pseudalethe choloensis), a subtropical bird
The Santa Monica branch of El Cholo, whose original Western Avenue location opened in 1923, also made the list. Its inclusion makes sense: Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff have a home in ...
What this source says is misrepresented. It does not say that cholo meant a cross between a mestizo and an Indian; it says that a cholo is a person of mixed Indian and Negro ancestry two or more generations after the mixing occurred. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hadding (talk • contribs) 04:25, 15 January 2009 (UTC)