Really? Do all hispanics really think this way? Do they all identify themselves as foreigners? Because that would change everything.
Even Puerto Ricans think of themselves as PR's instead of Americans. (Ever see an American flag hanging next to the PR flag on their car mirrors?) All of the barely English speaking hispanics that I knew at work consider their place of origin their "country". Were they here legally? Who knows. I think most of the were not.
Even the vaunted Cuban community in Miami continues to wax poetic over Cuba.
What this country has done for the past three decades with the cleaver of diversity is carve us all into groups instead of focusing on what we have in common. Is it any surprise that the hispanic lobby is taking that seriously and using it to get their way.
Hispanic is not even a race and it's listed as such on the Census and all other documents.
“Really? Do all hispanics really think this way? Do they all identify themselves as foreigners? Because that would change everything.”
I don’t know about ‘all’ hispanics, but Mexicans have no particular allegiance to the USA.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362258/posts
* An overwhelming majority (69 percent) of people in Mexico thought that the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans (Mexico- and U.S.-born) should be to Mexico. Just 20 percent said it should be to the United States. The rest were unsure.