Fantastic! Yeah, Marco's experience is way different: The only extended family member he mentions is his Abuela, he doesn't speak Spanish natively (or even proficiently, he butchers it when he tries), and there aren't even people at his Mom's 'funeral'. And we see Eva talking to Marco about American history, and we know she's an immigrant who got her citizenship, but we don't hear or see her telling Marco anything about her time in Mexico. Add in that the 90s were talking about race/culture/ethnicity so differently from today and it's really interesting.

Plus he's 100% interested. He adores his mother and now that he's gone through some stuff himself, he understands there being hard parts of your life and wants to learn so he can support her if she needs it. And he got thrust into fame at the end of the series so now all of a sudden people expect him to know things/he sort of has to kind of care because him being Latino means something to people even if it's weird to him since he was raised mostly like a suburban white kid.