>For decades there has been an argument about who speaks the best Castilian in the Americas. I have many friends and relatives from Spanish speaking countries. Columbia and Peru are the two names I hear even today when people ask this question. People from Columbia and Peru criticize Argentineans for the song like phrasing they use. Chileans get criticized for their speech manners. In fact everyone outside of Columbia and Peru are criticized. Of course Columbia and Peru criticize each other. :)

Right. I would also say Peru and Colombia, maybe Ecuador too.
And of course Spain.


>Public schools in California quit teaching Castilian in April of 1975. In its place they introduced Chicano.

Yes that is a bad example. Mostly Spanglish, perpetuated in most of the US. I quit reading the local Spanish Rag many years ago, (a.k.a. "El Nuevo Herald", a sister pub to the local newspaper "The Miami Herald") because it was/is so bad. I would say Chicano is worse.