Any Spanish speaking Dopers have additional insight? What’s the deal? And it just generally annoys me that this is considered acceptable practice. It doesn’t hurt my feelings, but it makes me think of you as a degenerate racist fuckstick who can’t help categorize people based on skin color, which last I heard, was totally out of fashion in this country. But I’m not about to say “Uh, please stop calling me guero because it hurts my feelings”. What am I supposed to say to them to stop the madness? I even speak Spanish fluently. So why the fuck do you think there’s nothing wrong with calling me “guero” all the time? (I don’t even usually use the word fuck, and don’t feel that incensed, but I’ve been accused of benign pittery before, so I have to throw something in to give it that extra spice) I don’t meet black people and say “What’s up negro?” or even “How’s it going African-American?”. But I don’t say “Hey Latino” or “Hey Hispanic guy” either. Regardless of whether or not it is officially “derogatory” according to the Societal Standards and Practices Manual, since when do we address people with racial epithets? I don’t say, “Hey, Mexican!” (I happen to know that several of the people I work with who use the term with me are from Mexico, but of course not all Spanish-speaking people are Mexican so I don’t assume nationality). I also lived in frigging Mexico for 6 months and had to endure this term constantly, as well as the more well-known but actually-less-used “gringo”. I work with a lot of Spanish-speaking people. The third definition straight up calls it a “Spanish deragatory term for a person of European descent”. One says “it is not derogatory but can be used that way.”, another “sometimes-derogatory term” and 'the Spanish equivalent of ‘whitey’". Here’s a source that offers a couple of different definitions. “Guero” (pronounced “WHERE-oh”) is a Spanish slang term generally used to refer to white people.
OK, a bit of linguistics so we’re all on the same page here.
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