[timsbella]

Well, if there's a risk for being mistaken as French, then I think she's justified in hiding behind the faux-latin facade ;)

[Kenny Bunk]

The "Hispanics," (literally, "something like a Spaniard") have wrongly appropriated this "Latino," thing. They are certainly no more "Latin" than Julius Caesar, or Napoleon, or Musssolini, or Charles Boyer, for that matter. Sure Spaniards are Latins, so are Frenchmen, Italians, Portuguese, and God help me, French-speaking Belgians and French Canadians.

Even Geraldo Rivera, whose Spanish is atrocious BTW, has some claim, in that his biological mother is Puerto Rican. His father's family are, like John Kerry's, Jewish fom Mittel Europa somewhere. Hungary?

He did get his first gig in NYC by working the name-change Affirmative Action angle. But then, he also married the boss' daughter! The rest is history.