A few years ago my wife and I took a years worth of Spanish classes from the local college. Classes were very cheap and we both use Spanish in our jobs, I’m a police officer and she is a teacher. The instructor for the class was born and raised in Mexico, and got her American citizenship the right way I might add. We took a trip with her to Mexico and saw the real side of the country, not the tourist side. Never been so happy to get back home in my life.
I drove all the way through Mexico to return to El Salvador once. The Salvadorans were surprised when I told them I was glad to be back “home” to El Salvador and out of Mexico. And this was during El Salvador’s guerrilla war.