I think I expressed myself poorly. I wasn’t accusing you of anything. My only point was that when groups of people are referred to, everyone in that group feels included, even if whatever is said about that group does not apply to them. I apologize if my comment was seen as a personal attack on you, which it wasn’t.
I overreacted as well, sorry for the drama. And glad that you have a Filipina gf. the Philippines is a country where we SHOULD be accepting large immigration. They have proven to be one of the highest educated and best performing immigrant groups that assimilate well into American culture.
The hispanic semantics here began with the Cuban Freeper who feels dissed on FR (and probably in real life) for being lumped together with Latinos->Mexicans. He’s tired of the stereotype of the alien gang Mexican culture. FWIW, Cubans have not formed murdering gangs and taken over swaths of US cities, nor do they have a high incarceration rate. They do have high rates of professionals, professors, engineers, entrepreneurs, college-educated, etc. For the most part, they are an extension of Spain & European culture with a heavy island flavor. Understand that Cuban-Americans, kept calling themselves Cubans for decades, and rightfully so. They always dreamed of overthrowing Castro and returning to their homeland. Plus Cubans are still firmly on the Right side of politics.
Playing identity politics here, but nearly all new Mexican immigrants identify as democrats. They likely will not change affiliation for several generations. And those are the ones that we need on our side. OTH, Cuban exiles once identified 95% as Republicans (excepting Rafael Cruz). The old generations of Cubans are some of the staunchest supporters of the republican party. Their strong vote in Florida and their millions of dollars put GWB in office. And Cubans HATE, yes HATE socialism and communism and anything that remotely resembles that form of government. They curse Castro more than the devil, himself. Unfortunately, many of the newer and younger generations of Cubans have grown soft or been 100% brainwashed by Castro and haven’t the foggiest idea.