Example sentences for: chicanos

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

  • It is thought that the Black Legend is actually the basis for the discriminatory treatment of Mexicans by Anglo Americans during the conquest of the frontier in the 1800s, and even for the current treatment of Chicanos in the United States in the twentieth century.

  • For Chicanos, un hombre macho is a man who symbolizes dignity, takes care of his family, has respect for all women, especially his mother, and possesses a strong sense of self-identity and character.

  • chant is a frequent opening and closing statement at festivities, concerts, political meetings, anywhere Chicanos might come together.

  • Octavio Paz writes of La Malinche as the “violated woman,” La Chingada, and his writings have influenced several generations of Mexicanos and Chicanos in seeing the Mexican people as “hijos de la chingada,” that is, “sons of a conquest by rape.”

  • Mexicans like to call Chicanos pocho, ridiculing their sometimes poor Spanish and their lack of knowledge about Mexico and Mexican customs.


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