Comments on: Why do Mexican nationals hate when Mexican-Americans can’t speak Spanish?

By: AK

AK — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:12:15 +0000

At least for me the hate towards mexican-americans is not about the english/spanish issue, but the whole “two cultures” one.
What makes me mad is that mexican-americans tend to think they can be from both countries at the same time and use and misuse the best traits of each culture just as they please. For all I care, you can either consider yourself an american and forget spanish and all of our beautiful traditions, food, lifestyle and characerystics OR move back to Mexico and forget all of the american customs and culture (Even though I would be infinitely happier with the second option). It´s just that all this culture mixing is not fair for both compromised americans and mexicans, because it´s a universal truth that you can´t be loyal to two countries at the same time and you have to live both the good and the bad parts of your culture. You can´t just have the “best of both worlds” and mix and mathch as you please.
PD: I´m basing the mexican american point of view from what the load of the above mentioned I personally know has told me.

By: cruz

cruz — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 06:07:18 +0000

I’m of hispanic heritage and I’m an american, not mexican american. My parents never taught me spanish, and my tia,my cousin and my grandma, all made me feel ashamed for that fact.
They would purposely speak spanish to me, and then laugh and make rude comets to me in spanish, when I didn’t understand them. Unfourunatley, i knew when I when I was being insulted.
The only thing I was taught about being hispanic in the U.S. is learning to self loath and that the people who knew I wasn’t taught spanish and even the one how didn’t know. made me to feel ashamed of, who I was, a natuarl born american. I’m telling you If I could speak spanish, I would, but all the mistreatment I recieved my whole life,makes me feel ashamed of the hispanic part of me, because that part of my heritage is narsasitic, instead of helping they belittle.

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By: J. Isabel

J. Isabel — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:07:35 +0000

Wow i’ve read through all of these comments and while i can understand where some of you are coming from I really have to address some complete lack of knowledge also.
First off @Joe Soto, you wrote one of the most igorant comments i’ve ever seen: “if Mexico broke out in a war with some island like Cuba if you were born here would you go and fight? If you took the oath to stay here would you go and fight? There are a lot of people here that don’t speak their native language we live in a country where the language is english” first off learn your history! Here it goes, it’s called the repatriation act employed by president Hoover in 1930, it deported around 1.2 Million Mexican Americans who were citizens! Yeah citizens, they didn’t give a crap if they were because they just snatched them from everywhere they could find and put them on a train to the middle of mexico so they couldn’t find their way back. These people who were supposed to be Americans but are never going to be looked as such ever. Do you know what the U.S government did then? When WWII broke out they sent draft letters to those people in Mexico telling them they had to serve the country because they were citizens. And those stupid people went because they were sure that if they went and died for the country they were spit on by, then they would surely be accepted. But they weren’t, we were second class citizens then, and we’re second class citizens now. You say we’re American but what does American mean? It’s a land made by immigrants. Second, the language isn’t english. If you don’t believe me look it up, the U.S doesn’t have an official language, english is just the majority.
@Petrocon: you say we were opressed in the 1950’s and I give you that. But we’ve been discriminated against since before, I gave one example already, another, operation wetback 1954-58 president Eisenhower. They deported 1M mexicans and anyone who looked Mexican, even Native Americans got deported, these were people who spoke only english and had never been to Mexico of course they felt like crap and were made fun of. That is when they embraced their Mexican roots because the American side didn’t want them, it’s called reactive ethnicity.
I’m not telling you all to go learn spanish or be ashamed that you don’t know. I am however telling you not to judge those who are waving their Mexican flag around, they wave it because they are proud of where they come from and the language they speak. Do you think that just because you speak english it’s going to save you from discrimination in places like Arizona if you still look like a mexican? Those who still believe whole heartedly that America embraces all cultures. Tell me this, why do they want to ban latino cultural studies in Arizona schools and erase all traces of that past because they deam it non-important?

By: uche

uche — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:24:41 +0000

lol,the Mayans and Aztecs would probably kick your ass if they
heard you speaking spanish. kisses to all the beautiful mexicanas.(you are all beautiful)

By: uche

uche — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:10:55 +0000

i’m african american(a real one,my father is african)
people are brain washed , spanish is NOT a mexican language.
it’s from spain. it’s not mexican heritage ,but alot of mexicans think it is.its not your “roots”.sorry to tell you
this ,but you were colonized ,over ruled by the Spaniards.
thats why mexicans speak spanish.i feel sorry for the mexicans
that don’t speak spanish,because you have to put up with ignorant people!

By: Liza

Liza — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:05:45 +0000

steven, i agree with you. i am the same way, i was raised the same way and very proud of who I am!!!

By: steven

steven — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:28:19 +0000

I am mexican and I don’t know spainish recently I went to my faimlys hometown which is in washington state, I was made fun of, even isolated were I couldn’t talk to anyone, I have no other choice but to be here and learn spainish, but how dare anyone do that coming to a land where english is dominate. Making me ashammend to even speak english, I love my culture yes , but my parents choice to raise me the way they did, “oh I don’t like it when they say why don’t they know english” well its true if I went over there it would be the same. I am american i speak english no shame in that . Also no shame in me not knowing spainish the culture here is different its not mexico, its america and no one else should ever be put in the position I am in!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:04:53 +0000

This whole idea of nationals not liking Mexican Americans is not exactly a complete truth.Some dont understand that those of us born here and whose ancestors have been here awhile,have chosen not to pass the language on for whatever reason.And maybe that is a big mistake!Its not that they were ashamed of thier heritage,but in time the predominate langauge(english), is used more and more and Spanish less and less. Both groups get along eventually . One thing I have noticed is that Mexican Americans are not ashamed of thier heritage,but we are still called mexicans at work places and in general coversation.I have a problem with that,we who are born here are AMERICANS just as people of European heritage.And should be addressed as such!

By: sintos

sintos — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:40:05 +0000

As the son of Mexican immigrants, I have spoken Spanish fluently my entire life and even studied it through college. (though I majored in something else)

The truth is, those same Mexicans nationals who look down on Chicanos as Pochos for not knowing Spanish, and I’m not saying they all do, still love to needle me about being born in the US…

or for going to college
or for watching American football
or for thinking Corona is chilled urine
or for not cooking with lard
or for buying tortillas instead of making them
or for having never been to some God forsaken village 250 miles from paved roads in the middle of nowhere
etc

Basically, you can’t win. So don’t lose too much sleep about it. Even if you dedicated yourself to learning Spanish and mastered it, those same dopes would just move on to their next complaint.