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Example sentences for: pocho

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Mexicans like to call Chicanos pocho, ridiculing their sometimes poor Spanish and their lack of knowledge about Mexico and Mexican customs.
Tin Tan made several Mexican films portraying the Mexican American pocho who code-switches between English and Spanish, and speaks caló.
A pocho is a term used in Mexico to describe a person of Mexican heritage born and raised in the United States.
The word became more nationally known in 1959 with the publication of the novel Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal, which depicted the coming-of-age of a Chicano growing up in the Santa Clara Valley of California during the 1940s.
Many carpas (tent theaters) featured pelado or peladito characters, and the agringado (anglicized) and the pocho (half Mexican) were special targets of his comic wit and satire.