[JesseHousman]

...they speak Spanish...

They speak Norte Americano Spanish. Spaniards have a difficult time understanding what Mexicans are saying.

[csvset]

They speak Norte Americano Spanish.

When I was in the Navy, I worked with a "Texican". We had a port call in Spain. When he spoke to some local ladies; they busted out laughing.

He was quite embarrassed, he said the women said his "Spanish" was "savage" and they referred to him as an "Indian".

[Atlas Sneezed]

Spaniards have a difficult time understanding what Mexicans are saying.

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Not any more than Minnesotans have trouble understanding what folks in New Orleans are saying.

Madrilenos probably have more trouble understanding their Andalusian countrymen speaking the same language than they do understanding a Mexican.

[ccmay]

Spaniards have a difficult time understanding what Mexicans are saying.

Pooh. No more so than British and Americans. In fact, Mexicans from northern states like Sonora speak a particularly clear and understandable form of Spanish, sort of like Midwestern English.

No doubt there are members of Indian tribes in the South that speak poor Spanish, and there are second and third generation Mexican-Americans who have trouble speaking well in spanish OR English, but Spaniards can understand Mexicans perfectly well. If they pretend not to, it is a manifestation of racism against the darker-skinned provincials. (As my Mexican-American teacher of Spanish told me on a high school trip to Madrid.)

[Guillermo]

First of all, Spaniards don't have a "difficult time" udnerstanding Mexican spanish.

Second, there are few Mexicans in Miami.