Consider having this as your surname: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Čulo

I was rather startled when I saw the first e-mail from a new colleague, when either our e-mail system thought ASCII was good enough for everyone or, (more likely in this case) the accent got lost earlier due to migration and someone's indifference to ancestral heritage.

I would be intrigued to learn the actual story, but it's not the kind of question to ask casually of slight acquaintances, I think.

Because accents are part of your language and your language is an integral part of your heritage.

You don't really get to tell other people what the right way celebrate their heritage is...

That’s why I said I’ll never understand them, not that they should be put in jail.

I don’t think the a European language is particularly important in the heritage of those from Latin America

Latin is a European language.

Latin America refers to the countries in Central and and South American that were colonized by Spain and Portugal. It has nothing to do with the Latin language.

Yes it has and you said why.

Huh? Where did Spanish come from?

From Spain, the country in Europe? Mexicans weren't speaking Spanish before Spanish colonization.

Culturally, Mexicans are closer to Spanish people than to the natives.