Chisme: Intergenerational Bonding Over Gossip
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Chisme is the Spanish word for gossip. It happens when you speak about someone in their absence, sharing information that’s supposed to be private and not necessarily factual. But foremost, it is an ancestral tongue that has connected and bonded Latinos for generations.
In this episode of Latino USA, producers Monica Morales-Garcia and Elisa Baena travel deep into a chismosa’s universe with the help of chisme experts from reality TV, entertainment news and academia. Follow them on this journey to understand why chisme is so central in the lives of Latinas and Latinos.
This episode aired originally in April of 2022.
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