Here in California I have noticed that most Mexican Americans refer to other Mexicans as "Spanish". Why? Just speaking Spanish doesn't make one Spanish. Being from Spain makes one Spanish. I speak English, but I'm not from England so I'm not English. I almost get the feeling that Mexicans here in California regard the word Mexican as an insult. Why? Being from Mexico makes one Mexican just as surely as being from Italy makes one Italian.

Example: Someone is born in the United States of Mexican parents and speaks both English and Spanish fluently since birth. They then go abroad to France to study French. Will they speak French with an English accent or a Spanish accent, or will they speak it with an accent in between English and Spanish? (By English and Spanish, I mean the English and Spanish languages, not the accents of England and Spain. Obviously in this case this individual would have an American English and a Mexican Spanish accent in their two languages).

Answer= Because America is not England. Spanish Language is the second most spoken in America. ( USA ).

I will vote for that candidate who speak better Spanish, for the most fluent Spanish Speaking American Presidential candidate .
Mexican-American & Democrat, A -Plus.

Some did, but not all, just like some Mexicans do learn English.
Europeans came to what is now knowed as American, and they preferred to speak English, so it's only fair for Mexican to only speak Spanish.
I meant to say "now known."
Oh, and "America"
lion_sim_bob, so you say times have changed? Well then, I guess times have changed for a second time, and now you have to learn Spanish too.
mnwoman, you will learn Spanish when you go to Spain? Ok, then Mexicans will learn English when they go to ENGLAND, NOT TO THE US!!!!!!!

this is NOT how it's spelled but it sounds like this......wa matair way?? what does that mean??
Hey Lucy, Mexico is a country...Spain is a country... they have different dialects!!! Americans don't call a toilet a "loo" but people from england do... so shut the fuck up!

in my school Brimingham England people say you guys from the u.s. speak mexican is that true ?

mexican language = mix of spanish hebrew english and apache

I refuse to learn English! This is NOT England or Britain!
This is The West Wing! " Aztan " El Suroeste Estadounidense!

This is an stereotype that really bothers me ... I speak spanish and some other languages; When somebody ask me if I'm from Mexico... I get really pissed
Hey Dude... not only in mexico people speak spanish, almost all southamerica but Brasil speak spanish, the you have Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, etc...
And yeah... I can tell when people is from the south, east, west, canada, Australia or England..