I'd recommend both English speakers and Spanish speakers to read "Love and Rockets" comic books, by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. These books portrait the life of Mexican and Latin-american immigrants in the USA, and their links to American people, their relationship with both languages and some mannerisms. Jaime and Beto are of Mexican descent, and the books are certainly not bigotry-oriented in any way, but respectful of the differences between all these cultures. There are trade paperbacks and hardcover books that collect a lot of the main stories from the original books: Locas by Jaime, and Palomar by Gilbert. And believe me, it's a fascinating reading, as well.
Cheers!
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