Word: gringo
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Paco always knew it was the stereotypes that matter--like the fiery Chicano stereotype that had taken out of the migrant's school outside of San Francisco and had put him in the gringo school outside of Beacon Hill. But gradually that year he understood it was that other stereotype, that Harvard-Fly-Club-air-of-casual-scholarship phantom that was going to take him even further in the gringo world as soon as he could climb out of the long black robe on Commencement. Hell, he figured, there's Ropes and Gray and Rose Guthrie and Alexander...
...travel for $175-or go for a fly-and-drive tour of the Northwest. Travel within the U.S. has shown a marked increase, notably in the South and West. Alaska and Hawaii have also enjoyed a bumper summer. Heading south into Baja California along the new transpeninsular highway, gringo travelers have discovered such little-known Mexican resorts as Puerto Escondido, Loreto and Mulegé, all moderately priced; Manzanillo, on Mexico's Pacific Coast, promises to become the world's next deep-sea fishing capital. Nicaragua and Colombia are also enjoying a vogue. For the gregarious, the biggest bargains...
...becoming a kind of second language, necessary for medical students whose textbooks are in English, for the purchaser of a home appliance for which the operating instructions are in English, even for a shoeshine boy or a waitress who would coax a few extra centavos out of the gringo tourists. Some of this cultural influence is due a filtering down of the upper-class aping of everything North American: much of it, however, is pure necessity in a society shaped and dominated largely from without...
...development projects. The interest charged is reasonable-from 6% to 8%-but the Caracas government must approve the uses to which the loans are put. To a degree, Venezuela's helping-hand programs smack of a paternalism that at another time and in other hands, was condemned as gringo imperialism. Pérez occasionally seems to envision himself a Simón Bolivar of the space age, seeking to build Venezuelan hegemony in the region. Yet the President dismisses the notion, and talks of wider goals. Says he: "We are constructing a system for unity, for Latin American integration...
FECOAR, the Guatemalan agricultural federation, is governed from the top. Gringo and Guatemalan developers establish the general policy that the Ladino (non-Indian mestizo) extensionists and managers apply to the regional cooperatives. Even though the co-ops are for the benefit of the Indian farmer, he plays almost no part in the decision making...