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  • No one mentioned that the term chilango is often felt to be derogatory.

    �Chilango? 2003

  • I did a search online and found an interview with a wrestler (from mexico city) and said the word "chilango" is a nahuatl word meaning "a person who comes from the clean place"

    �Chilango? 2003

  • I did a search online and found an interview with a wrestler (from mexico city) and said the word "chilango" is a nahuatl word meaning "a person who comes from the clean place"

    �Chilango? 2003

  • Yet, in spite of the "chilango" offense, that's the term you'll see in DF newspapers when referring to their own.

    Page 2 2009

  • Yet, in spite of the "chilango" offense, that's the term you'll see in DF newspapers when referring to their own.

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  • Yet, in spite of the "chilango" offense, that's the term you'll see in DF newspapers when referring to their own.

    Page 2 2009

  • Yet, in spite of the "chilango" offense, that's the term you'll see in DF newspapers when referring to their own.

    Page 2 2009

  • Yet, in spite of the "chilango" offense, that's the term you'll see in DF newspapers when referring to their own.

    Page 2 2009

  • Yet, in spite of the "chilango" offense, that's the term you'll see in DF newspapers when referring to their own.

    Page 2 2009

  • Yet, in spite of the "chilango" offense, that's the term you'll see in DF newspapers when referring to their own.

    Page 2 2009

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  • Mexico City

    March 10, 2007

  • someone from Mexico City

    it can be used as a derogatory term by people that aren't from Mexico City

    April 16, 2009