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  • Hispanic here, I grew up using “gringo” specifically for people from the U.S. despite skin tone.

    Canadians are “Canadiense”, English are “Ingles” but United States? “Estadounidense”? It’s sort of like saying “United Statian” but arguably more “correct/proper”

    Gringo is just much faster/easier to say.

    That being said this can vary a little from one Latin-American country to another.





  • “Is the caterpillar dead because it became a butterfly?”

    The caterpillar IS the butterfly. Perhaps not as you know it, but change is the universal constant, my friend, and trying to hold on to the past is a futile attempt.

    In my experience it’s best to acknowledge the past enough so we can appreciate the good things, learn from our mistakes or anything we feel we did less-than-great at, then try to do better as we evolve.

    No, you’re not the exact same person you were a few years ago, but we live in a changing world and we change with it as time goes on.

    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us”

    Best of luck, I’m here if you want to talk about anything :)