why do mexicans think they are american?

Question

just because they are CENTRAL AMERICAN or LATIN AMERICAN doesn't make them american. it makes them a wanna-be american, but definately NOT american.

if mexicans are american, let me try it. I am santa clause. but wait, i'm not santa clause. i guess saying things don't make them true.

you people sure are stupid. they're not from america, they're from meixco, and columbia, yet they think they are AMERICANS. they're not, they're mexican and columbian, not american.

Answer 1

How many dummasses does it take to answer a simple question?, Damn! most of the people who answered this question are obviously either mentally deficient, on drugs or simply ignorant! They say " Stay in school!" then, claim that Mexico is a part of NORTH AMERICA! Duh! Some of you need to take your own advice! Learn some geography! open the book! The North American continent is a large land mass located in What is known as North America.
South America is a part of the North American continent. The United States of America is a country located in the middle portion of the continent. And If a Mexican is born in Greenland that Mexican is still a Mexican! The location of your birth has nothing to do with your citizenship! Lesson over! everyone to detention!, for being flagrantly idiotic!

Answer 2

Last time I checked the map, Mexico was a part of North AMERICA, same as almost all of the United States. If they are illegal immigrants they are still Americans but citizens of Mexico. You are an American who happen to ALSO be a CITIZEN of the United States. Oh, If their parents were born in Mexico, part of North America but they were born in the United States, they ARE AMERICANS who are also CITIZENS of the United States, just like you.
You know, depending on where your ancestors are from, the same question could be asked of you, i.e if your ancestors came here to America from Ireland well then in YOUR way of thinking and processing things, you are technically Irish, NOT American.
And if your thinking that maybe I am saying all this because I must be Mexican, let me inform your small mind of what I am...
I was born in the Philippines to a Filipino mother and a White American father(he was in the Air Force) I am considered Amerasian. American-Asian. So I wrote what I wrote not because I might have been Mexican but because I am educated.

Answer 3

I doubt you're American. Are you pure, full-blood Indian? I bet that you have a lot of other races in your family, including Mexican (gasp!, the horror!!!). If you want, I'll be glad to run a few tests on you in my lab to prove it. Oh yeah, and I'm PROUD not to be born in some ignorant, whiny,bitching country like America. It actually does make them American, now that I think about it. America is a continent, not a country. The USA is a country. So, everyone from Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, ext.; are American citizens...North American citizens to be exact.

Answer 4

Geographically speaking, North America consists of Canada, United States, and Mexico. But the way society has redefined the word "America," our first impression is to instantly think "the U.S."

In some attributes, mexicans are in fact "American." Though the U.S. has a highly international influence, this does not mean America and the U.S. are the same thing.

Answer 5

Most Mexicans don't want to be Americans. Americans are highly arrogant and think the whole world wants to be us, when in truth, they dont.

Mexicans want to work in America, because Mexico does not have laws like America does, so American companies build factories that pay $0.85 an hour to Mexicans, where as they can earn $6.00 an hour working as janitors and farm labor in America.

If you had that choice, you'd choose the American Job too.

And we're not "America," we're the "United States Of America." Get it right. Mexicans are Americans, as are Canadians, Brazilians, and Argentinians.

Answer 6

Allowing people from other countries to become American is what makes our country so great! I have two brothers that were adopted from Korea and both are American now. They learned about the American culture and history and chose to become an American citizen. I do disagree with people coming over from another country-refusing to learn English-waiving the mexican flag and saying they are American. However, if they choose like my brothers to learn about the American culture and participate in this country as a legal citizen then they are truly American and deserve to have the same rights as us.

Answer 7

because they are. the term "american" means anyone living/ citizen of a country in north, central, or south america. us (being the people here in the USA) have turned that word "american" into just meaning us here in the states. think about it USA, United States OF America. meaning our country is part OF America not THE America. didn't you history teacher ever actually teach you any thing. because not to sound rude, but your very naive, snobbish. and apparently not into watching or reading the news. because a couple of years ago there was this big argument between Canada and the USA, because they were being called not americans which they are.

Answer 8

You're an idiot. Stop making the illegal immigration about all Mexicans. You are one of the close minded idiots that makes life hard for every one. And just so you know Mexico is in North America. Open your tiny little mind, take a Geography class and don't put your two sense in unless you know what you are talking about!

Answer 9

Mexicans (some) believe that as indigenous people of the southern USA they have birthright to the land that we acquired, and there is a movement to 'take it back'. Native Americans feel the same about the rest of our country, they just aren't as motivated in taking it back.

I am of Welsh ancestry, so by all rights shouldn't I be able to go to Wales, find whatever chunk of land my ancestors lived on and claim it as my own too???

I mean it works for Israel...

Answer 10

hey Mexico is part of north American just as the u.s.a and Canada as well as groeland. central America begin in the tehuantepec itsmo and end in the panama canal where south America begins same that ends in Terra Del fuego Argentina
and all three together make one sigle Continent call America From Alaska to Patagonia

Answer 11

Cause some of us were born in America. So that makes us americans. But i do consider myself to be a mexican-american