I'm A Cholo

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In the United States, the word “cholo” invokes images of gang members, lowriders, and tattoos. But in South America, cholo or “cholito” can either be a term of endearment or a racial slur used against people of indigenous ancestry. How come one word is used to describe two very different groups of people on opposite sides of the world? We take a journey, from the streets of California to the Andes of Peru, to find the roots of an ancient and harmful term that some people are, nonetheless, reclaiming as an element of pride and identity.

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1:11.2	slash Latino.
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1:19.9	I am not a white person, I am not a mestizo, I'm a choli.
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1:31.0	Today, we're digging into the meaning of the term cholo, how it's being reclaimed, and
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