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Naco (''fmn. naca'') is a pejorative word often used in Mexican Spanish to describe the bad-mannered, poorly educated people or those with bad taste. Close equivalents could include bogan, tacky and scanger. Red-neck can also be close although the word in Spanish ''palurdo'' is more similar since it is used for rural people.〔Güey Spanish - Mexican Slang Dictionary http://www.gueyspanish.com/word/155/naco〕 A ''naco'' is usually associated with lower socio-economic classes and/or the indigenous, but it also includes the nouveau-riche. ==Definition and usage== The term ''naco'' is generally used to describe people, behaviors or aesthetic choices seen as unrefined or unsophisticated, often in a comic way. As a person, the "naco" may display a general lack of refinement by adopting a "gangster mentality", unrefined verbal expressions or slang, peculiar accents, lack of social manners, or comically bad taste. The word likely originated as a contraction of "''totonaco''" referring to the members of the Totonac people, which in the past was sometimes used as a disparaging term for indigenous people in general.〔Zentella, A. C. (2007). “Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres”: Linguistic (In) security and Latina/o Unity. A companion to Latina/o studies, 25-38.〕 The term is often associated to lower social classes, but it is also used as an elitist expression from the educated to describe the uneducated, and among the middle and upper classes as a synonym of bad taste. In many situations, the word may have no derogatory intention and may even demonstrate familiarity.〔''EQUIS'' magazine. Cultura y Sociedad. Braulio Peralta (ed). México, Ulises Ediciones, No. 1, May, 1998, pp. XVII-XX. (Dossier: Autonomías en el mundo)〕 The Mexican definition of a ''naco'' may be analogous to the American modern-day definition of redneck, the British chav or the French ''beauf''. However, the usage and derogatory tones vary. For example: "Damn, that guy is such a naco" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Naco (slang)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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