Why do Mexicans still speak spanish I thought in America we speak English?

Answer 1

I'll let Teddy speak for me on this one.


Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
– Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas City Star (April 27, 1918)

Answer 2

THE reason:

When a bill to make English the official language of the United States was introduced in the senate, 34 senators voted against it -:
32 Democrats, 1 Republican and 1 Independant.

The English language ie a prerequisite to becoming an American citizen - and that speaks volumes about the aliens in this country who have no desire to learn English.

Answer 3

Actually native Americans spoke Cherokee and Choctaw
then Spaniards from Spain came and made the Indians speak Spanish and English they learn from the English invaders. After they stold their land and killed all their herds the buffalo, just for the hell of it. Gave them all small pox and other European diseases and almost wiped out a nation.
Then they have the nerve to say that others who are technically coming home are foreigners. Forced to speak Europeans language and one of those forced languages was Spanish.

Answer 4

So you are announcing when you went to one more nation, you could in no way talk to your local toungue? Besides, written matters are tough to realise despite the fact that you understand the language. If you paid awareness in Spanish magnificence you could become aware of that what is written beneath in Spanish by and large should be written very in a different way on account that many terms do not exist in Spanish. So looking to learn in English, many Latinos or Spaniards would possibly not realise it despite the fact that they talk English.

Answer 5

the Mexicans in Mexico aren't in America. They can speak whatever language they want.

Answer 6

Mexicans? Like people from Mexico, where they speak Spanish? Or do you mean the part of America that used to be Mexico, where they speak Spanish?

Answer 7

America doesn't have an official language. When we provoked and then won the Mexican-American war, we took over alot of territory that was primarily Spanish speaking (Arizona, California, Texas, New Mexico, etc) anyway.

Answer 8

Mexicans live in MEXICO which is in CENTRAL America. They speak a certain dialect of Spanish. We live in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA which is in NORTH AMERICA. We speak many languages here in the U.S.A. but by looking at some of the stores...LOWES in particular...you'd think that only SPANISH and ENGLISH are spoken in the U.S.A. I, for one, refuse to PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH.
My grandparents/ parents/uncles & aunt came here from Finland and jumped through all the 'legal hoops' to become American citizens....PRODUCTIVE citizens...and never DEMANDED anything from the U.S. government. We lost both my uncles (1 KIA, 1 MIA) in Korea fighting for the freedom of S. Koreans. My father lost an Arm in Germany as a member of the U.S. Army. They all learned English. My parents wouldn't teach me Finn because we were Americans.
I say: You're in America, speak English! And if that offends some lily livered, spinless liberal.....tough.

Answer 9

FYI Mexico is part of North America not Central America. If you are going to slam a group of people, at least show that you are smarter than them. It is a good thing to know two languages to answer your question

Answer 10

First generation immigrants always prefer their native language, just as you would if you emigrated to some other country. It happened with the Irish, Italians, Germans and all the rest. Their children are usually bilingual then by the third generation the the descendants don't know the grandparents language and little of the grandparents culture.