Do Mexican-Americans try to teach their children Spanish? Filipino-Americans are notoriously bad at passing the language down. They normally are! My grandma was really into the whole "If you're in America you speak English" sort of mentality, so she never passed it down to her kids and of course my mother didn't learn the language so she didn't pass it down to me.
But there's so much pride in Chicano communities wrt their Mexican culture. Most people I meet who are Mexican can speak Spanish relatively well.
Re: Language
They normally are! My grandma was really into the whole "If you're in America you speak English" sort of mentality, so she never passed it down to her kids and of course my mother didn't learn the language so she didn't pass it down to me.
But there's so much pride in Chicano communities wrt their Mexican culture. Most people I meet who are Mexican can speak Spanish relatively well.