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Meaning of gringolandia




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

gringolandia
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It is a colloquial way of calling the United States in Colombia. Land of the gringos. It is taken as something derogatory.

  




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

The suffix -landia derives from the Germanic land, (land, country), the RAE says site of or place of , frequently used in Nordic place names. Country of gringos , USA . Around here Yanquilandia is preferred especially among people on the left and with derogatory nuances that I think also exist among Ibero-Americans.

  



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