Are you a guiri?

According to the RAE dictionary a guiri is a foreigner tourist.

The term is a friendly expression to mean a foreigner that doesn´t have a good command (or none) of the Spanish language. If you are blonde, pale and your skin burns easily under the sun no doubt: you are a guiri.

I would consider a "guiri": an English man, Americans, Germans, French (in general people from North Europe) but not Italians, Portuguese, Africans, Asians or Hispanics. I guess it depends on who´s talking. One thing is for sure: if you are Spanish, you can´t be a guiri.

Sometimes just looking at the feet of people is enough ;)







No comments: