Puerto Rico
****This post was originally posted in March 2009 at Family Eden. Since that blog is no longer active, I wanted to share with you.****
I’ve been asked a difficult question.
I was asked to write about what it means to me to be a Latina.
To be honest, I’ve never really given it much thought.
I mean, do people [...]
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Parenting
There is this thing in the Latino culture where your parents, or other relatives, will often say “terms of endearment” that if were said in the English language would be down-right insulting and offensive.
Examples:
Spanish term/phrase
English Translation
Esta gordita!
She’s fat!
Negrita
Dark-skinned girl
SpanglishBaby just posted this past week about this issue. It was part of their Ask an Expert [...]
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