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in reply to a message by Laslow
It's kind of cute, though very dated here in the US. It seems to have been somewhat popular on non-Hispanic women born in the early 20th century, and now you rarely even see it on Hispanic women.
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"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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In Latin America (and Spain), Juanita is usually a nickname rather than a name in its own right. Most American women with Juanita as a given name seem to be either white or black. It's like how in Russia Sonia is a nickname only while in many Western European countries it's a name in its own right.
This message was edited 11/16/2016, 7:12 PM
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My English grandmother was Juanita, named by her Ecuadorian mother
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