Chilango - Citizendia

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Chilango is a Mexican slang demonym for a person from or living in Mexico City or its surrounding areas. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place Mexico City (in Spanish: Ciudad de México, México DF, México or simply Méjico) is the Capital city of Mexico It may have a negative connotation when used by someone from a person who lives in one of the 31 States of Mexico.

Originally, the word chilango described someone who was not born in Mexico City, but rather migrated to it from one of the other states. Today, however, it is widely used to refer to every resident of the Federal District (Distrito Federal or DF in Spanish) and sometimes it even encompasses the inhabitants of the larger area actually covered by the city and its neighboring areas, called locally Zona Metropolitana (literally meaning "Metropolitan Zone" it is most commonly known in English sources as "Greater Mexico City". Mexico City (in Spanish: Ciudad de México, México DF, México or simply Méjico) is the Capital city of Mexico Greater Mexico City refers to the Conurbation around Mexico City, officially called Mexico City Metropolitan Area ( Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad )

Chilangos have come to embrace the term and use it with pride. This chilango pride has also led the affectionate term "Chilangolandia" in reference to Mexico City. They also consider that any non-Chilango who uses the term does it in a derogatory fashion, and although widely used, may be considered pejorative since Mexicans in general view Mexico City dwellers as "different" from them: more competitive, selfish, less honest and more manipulative.

The etymology of the word "chilango" is most likely a derivation of the Nahuatl word Ixachilan. Nahuatl ( is a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan or Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family

Two less widely used terms for a resident of Mexico City are Defeño (derived from D. F. , Distrito Federal) and Capitalino, which can also be used both in a positive or a derogatory sense, although the latter is generally accepted as a neutral demonym.

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Etymology of "chilango" (in Spanish)

The term Chilango was originally used, as a pejorative term, to refer to those mestizos, (the offspring of Spanish and indigenous people) who were regarded as acting snobbishly for being part Spanish. Etymology is the study of the History of Words &mdash when they entered a language from what source and how their form and meaning have changed over time
Today, the term Chilango refers to a variety of people ranging from those who live in Mexico City, snobs or overly pious people, Spanish-looking people or a combination of these.

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