Well really I am an American with Mexican decent. My grandparents parent parents were from Mexico so I am pretty far removed from the mother country.

As for why I do not speak the language...when I was five years old, my grandmother tried to teach me and my cousin how to speak Spanish. I looked at her with my defiant five-year-old eyes and in my infinite wisdom told her I was not Mexican and I did not have to learn. She did not like that very much and stopped teaching me (and my cousin). I tried to take it in high school, and pick it up here and there, but really, I never got it fully.

I do wish I could go back in time and beat that little boys butt and tell him how important it would be later down the road, but C'est la vie right?

I always say though that I know enough to get another beer, find the bathroom, and get my self beat up pretty good and really, isn't that all you really need to know?