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Because it’s a stupid, made-up word that makes no sense in any language, let alone Spanish. You can’t even really pronounce it in Spanish.Spanish-speaking people should be allowed to choose how they will describe themselves, and English-speaking SJWs who self-appoint themselves as the arbiter of every perceived grievance that they can invent should back off.

No, the vast majority of Brazilians couldn’t speak Spanish to save their lives. What Brazilians do in the presence of Spanish speakers though, is try to speak some kind of freestyle hybrid thing, due to the similarity between the two languages.Depending on the speaker, this could be anything from Portuguese with what they think sounds like a Spanish accent to some kind of broken Spanish filled with Brazilianisms.I know it sounds logical that many Brazilians would know Spanish, as Brazil is surrounded by Spanish speaking countries. However, most of the major population centers in Brazil are very far away from any other country and border areas are mostly dense jungle, wide rivers or swamps.As you can see on this map, Brazil has always literally had its back towards its neighbors, as it’s grown facing the Atlantic ocean. Historically, it was colonized by a different power and culturally it’s never been significantly influenced by Hispanic culture.Brazilian culture is very insular. About 90% of the music played on the radio is local and sung in Portuguese and the same goes for TV, except for a few Mexican Soap Operas, which are dubbed anyway.I remember watching a Mexican comedy show called El Chavo del Ocho as a kid and having no idea it was Mexican. As far as I was concerned it was called Chaves and made in Brazil.So, most Brazilians are as removed from their Spanish speaking neighbors as people in the American Midwest are from Mexico. Maybe more so, because unlike the US, in most of Brazil you won’t find significant Spanish speaking immigrant communities - if any at all - so people may have even less contact with the Spanish language than the average American.Not to mention that despite being just one country, Brazil is huge, actually bigger than all of its neighbors combined, both in area and population, which contributes to this cultural isolation.

Because everybody hated them.The Spanish allied with all the oppressed, subjugated and terrorized Mesoamerican nations, especially the Tlaxcalans, and they formed a formidable alliance which was able to crush the Aztec Empire. The Spaniards could never have conquered the empire alone.In the end they all amalgamated together and formed the modern day Mexico and the Mexican nation.