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No one seems to like their diaspora. There are some interesting exceptions.
If a normal person that is born and raised in america to parents born and raised in Mexico in a home that is entirely ethnically hispanic and mexican in culture where only spanish is spoken and the person is entirely fluent as it was the first language they learned was at a social event with Mexicans who where born and raised in Mexico and the American born man said he was Mexican in spanish there would be a lot of awkwardness as the Mexicans would be giving each other looks and looking back the person in silence. Whats interesting is that for example Stipe Miocic(pic related) the former two time UFC heavyweight champion who is also born to immigrant parents who are from Croatia is treated radically different. Stipe was raised in a home enviroment where his home culture and ethnicity was so lacking that Stipe can only speak Croatian on a low level. He is completely and entirely accepted by Croatians as a full Croatian. He is not dismissed as an american even though he is thoroughly anglicized and is for all intents and purposes an anglo man. He knows so little of Croatian culture and so unlike Croatians ethnically that he doesn't even really speak Croatian but still he is entirely and completly accepted.

Another example is Cane Valesquez another former heavyweight champ in the UFC. Cane once again like stipe speaks spanish on a very elementary level you can find videos of him speaking it is very labored very slow he has to think hard about every word he says and once again even though he is more anglo like a white american then hispanic ethnically he is accepted in Mexico as a mexican.