guiri

The word is used to define a foreign person in Spain, usually from Northern Europe. However, the Spanish in general can't tell the different between Northern Europe and USA, or Canada, Australia, and Eastern Europe. Therefore it tends to refer to someone who is not Mediterranean., and fair skinned.
Depending upon context it can be used in a tolerable manner or be quite offensive. But as a racist nation it is used to generalize and group people together, who could actually be from completely different cultures!

There are a bunch of guiris over there.

Hay muchos guiris en este sitio!

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