Panama Number 1!

[Lee Zeltzer]

Maybe there's something in Panama's canal water.

In a new poll, the Central American country ranks first among 135 countries on subjective well-being – not just how much wealth or health people have but how they feel about their lives.

Syria and Afghanistan rank last, and the USA ranks 12th in the poll conducted in 2013 and released Tuesday by Gallup and Healthways, a Franklin, Tenn., company that markets wellness programs.

The results are based on a new global version of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The index looks at how people feel about five facets of their lives: sense of purpose, social connections, community, finances and physical vigor.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/16/global-well-being-poll-panama/15679637/

[Patrick]

URBAN DICTIONARY 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gringo

 a non-derogatory term used to refer to US citizens. 

[Mateo]

Diccionario castellano con las voces de ciencias y artes
y sus correspondientes en las tres lenguas francesa, latina é italiana: E-O
Esteban Terreros y Pando  -
January 1, 1787 -

Page 240

Translation by Wikipedia

"GRINGOS, llaman en Málaga a los extranjeros, que tienen cierta especie de acento, que los priva de una locución fácil, y natural Castellana; y en Madrid dan el mismo, y por la misma causa con particularidad a los irlandeses."

Gringos is what, in Malaga, they call foreigners who have a certain type of accent that prevents them from speaking Castilian easily and naturally; and in Madrid they give the same name, in particular, to the Irish.

[Keith Woolford]

That's fine for Malaga Mateo, but do you have a Panamanian dictionary in your back pocket, by chance? Seems to me that what's really at issue here is what the term 'Gringo' means to the average Panamanian? Thanks as always for the interesting research.

[Mateo]

Diccionario del español en Panamá (DEPA) is, for my money, the most complete.
AFAIK, it is the most current online resource.

That work solidly supports the "estadounidense" definition and gives as an example: "pescar un gringo" - Casarse con un gringo"

See page 158 Diccionario del español en Panamá (DEPA) pages 139-188

[Keith Woolford]

I'm sticking with Canadian, eh.

[Roger Bellido]

Keith

As much as I can recall the term GRINGO for Panamanians were used to describe any White, non Spanish speaking person.   It was used to even describe Germans, Swiss, Canadians or British.

[wryawry]

This particular fiber of this thread has simply become ursinine.

[Bonnie Williams]

"It frightens me that you are still brazenly advocating your evil Canadian plan of taking over the earth." (I trust, perhaps wrongfully, that you know this is humor.)

[Patrick]

Maybe all those snow birds, practicing flapping their wings, to invade the southern countries. It's getting close to that time of year.

[Patrick]

Hi Walter: GRINGOS is a term used to identify U.S. Citizens,

perhaps a better word would be FOREIGNERS/

Just saying.

Patrick