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单词 chola
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Definition of chola in English:

chola

nounˈtʃəʊləˈCHōlə
derogatory
  • 1(in some parts of Latin America) a woman of indigenous or partly indigenous ancestry.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Urban, socially integrated cholos and cholas became the focal point for the increasing tide of racism.
    • Cholos and cholas in early twentieth-century Bolivia drank chicha during baptism, vacations, and funeral ceremonies.
    • During the years between 1870 and 1890 chicheras faced more public insults than other cholas.
    • Chicheras were better off economically than most cholas and certainly than Indians, and their cultural connection to chicha gave them social advantages within the chola community.
    • Their move into the city could mean a move from an identity as an Indian to an identity as a chola, if they so chose.
    • Other cholos and cholas believed that the occupation of chicha seller inherently meant untrustworthiness when it came to money.
    • Chicheras, more than any other cholas, went to court.
    • The fact that even the cholas punish La Cristina for her disrespect demonstrates the level to which the women have assimilated their community's patriarchal values.
    • In La Cristina's case, the other cholas persecute and ostracize her out of jealousy and an inability to imagine a more inclusive notion of chola identity.
    • Her most offensive transgression against the community, however, is her decision to date a non-cholo man, a decision that infuriates both her parents and the other cholas.
    1. 1.1US informal A young woman belonging to a Mexican-American urban subculture associated with street gangs.

Origin

Mid 19th century: American Spanish (see cholo).

Definition of chola in US English:

chola

nounˈCHōlə
derogatory
  • 1(in some parts of Latin America) a woman of indigenous or partly indigenous ancestry.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Urban, socially integrated cholos and cholas became the focal point for the increasing tide of racism.
    • Their move into the city could mean a move from an identity as an Indian to an identity as a chola, if they so chose.
    • The fact that even the cholas punish La Cristina for her disrespect demonstrates the level to which the women have assimilated their community's patriarchal values.
    • Other cholos and cholas believed that the occupation of chicha seller inherently meant untrustworthiness when it came to money.
    • Cholos and cholas in early twentieth-century Bolivia drank chicha during baptism, vacations, and funeral ceremonies.
    • Chicheras, more than any other cholas, went to court.
    • In La Cristina's case, the other cholas persecute and ostracize her out of jealousy and an inability to imagine a more inclusive notion of chola identity.
    • During the years between 1870 and 1890 chicheras faced more public insults than other cholas.
    • Chicheras were better off economically than most cholas and certainly than Indians, and their cultural connection to chicha gave them social advantages within the chola community.
    • Her most offensive transgression against the community, however, is her decision to date a non-cholo man, a decision that infuriates both her parents and the other cholas.
    1. 1.1US informal A young woman belonging to a Mexican-American urban subculture associated with street gangs.

Origin

Mid 19th century: American Spanish (see cholo).

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