[FITZ]

I guess it depends on where you live but where I live, but I'm used to people who have lived in the US for generations --even before it was the US referring to themselves as "Hispanic" and the "Mexicans" are the immigrants who come from Mexico. Here they don't seem that culturally alike, I can't think of any "Hispanic" family that lives like that but it's common for the "Mexicans" to crowd 3 to 4 or more families into one home (and I've seen some horrendous examples where they have kids sleeping on floors). The Hispanics might have several generations under the same roof but not different families like the immigrants commonly do here.

[WRhine]

I guess it depends on where you live but where I live, but I'm used to people who have lived in the US for generations --even before it was the US referring to themselves as "Hispanic" and the "Mexicans" are the immigrants who come from Mexico.

A good friend of mine from my high school days fits that description. I never thought about the fact his family was Mexican. They were American as far as I was concerned.