Why do you find that so offensive? People think I'm latina all the time.
Because I'm an American. I am a citizen of this great land by birth; confuse me with a wetback illegal at your own risk because I won't let people label me and get away with it. This is America, we speak-a English here.
I consider it bad manners to impose upon your host, so I would offer illegals train fare back to wherever they came from so they can wait to get in here on a visa like everyone else who respects the Land of the Free, not cutting in line. There is a tremendous diffence between Roman/Latin History and Spanish/Hispanic History, and even to the Romans the Spanish were barbarian provincials, it's nothing new frankly. To even have to Q&A this for you is strange to me, and not pleasant but necessary.
"People think I'm latina all the time."<P<BTW, if you are Italian then you ARE Latin. Mexicans are Hispanic. And thanks for acknowledging my right which is given by God not man and does not exist in many of these Hispanic countries.