Example sentences for: agringado

How can you use “agringado” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The agringado figure has become a stock character in Chicano culture and is frequently encountered in folklore, literature, and popular culture.

  • In a bicultural environment, or even in tightly knit Mexican communities, when individuals become thoroughly acculturated to American society and values, the individual may be criticized by close friends and relatives, and be called an agringado.

  • Agringado is a particularly strong term in comparison to americanizado, because the word gringo connotes a strong negative image of a North American.

  • Rather, identifying or pointing out agringado behavior tends to be done by family or peer group members, who use teasing, joking, and narrating exemplary anecdotes characteristic of folkloric behavior.

  • An agringado will not self-identify because this kind of behavior is perceived as negative or disloyal to his/her cultural group.


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