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Chairo (feminine ''chaira'') is a pejorative epithet used in Mexico to describe an individual who holds a far-left ideology. Similar terms in other Spanish-speaking counties include ''perroflautas'' in Spain, ''zurdos'' in Argentina and ''comunachos'' in Chile.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://chilango.com/general/nota/2015/09/07/nosotros-los-chairos )〕 == Etymology == In the 1960s, a ''chairo'' or ''chaqueto'' was an adolescent who was believed to masterbate in excess and as a result was self-absorbed and distracted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.milenio.com/firmas/rogelio_villarreal_2/chairos_18_427337301.html )〕 In her blog at ''El Universal'', prominent blogger Tamara de Anda relates how she and her friends first tried to popularize ''chairo'' in high school to describe "neo-hippie" students that would take up camp in the best part of the school's garden.〔 She describes these students as beautiful and self-assured, that they wore fashionable cloths, went to raves and took acid and ''tachas''. Although they came from nice homes in the south of Mexico City (see Jardines del Pedregal and San Ángel).〔 De Anda and her friends would mock these students as elitists and fake as they claimed to be left-wing whilst going to protests in their best cloths.〔 At this point to de Anda, the ''chairo'' was viewed as somewhat cool for the things that their wealth provided them.〔 The word started to acquire its current meaning in the mid 2000s. De Anda gave new impetus to the word circa 2004 when she began to use it in her blog, ''Plaqueta'', and to describe her left-leaning friends.〔 In 2005, while de Anda attended the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, she created a satirical documentary titled ''Los Chairos'' which consisted of interviews with the "chairos" of Mexico City.〔 The popularity of her blog helped increase views for the video and helped disseminate the term. ''Chairo'' then began to deform from describing something cool and fun to a word used to indicate and mock those who were demonstrating against the system.〔 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「Chairo (slang)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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