a legal person who was born in the U.S. who's parents are legal in the U.S. NOT THE SAME AS MEXICAN. Better than mexicans and are usually shorty's from California who are light skinned.
A chicano is a first generation Mexican American who is proud of his heritage, and is raised in the Mexican traditional way, but living in an American socity.
A person with mexican heritage born in the United States; one who feels culturally screwed up & is not fully accepted by either Americans or Mexicans but only by others of their kind.