Can my friend consider themselves Hispanic?

[jym626]

A heritage is not something you can choose. Heritage is more of a factual situation than a conscious choice. Understanding where your father was born and grew up for the first 17 years of his life, even as the son of an expat family, is part of understanding that heritage. The cultural forces that formed your Husband, and that are now a part of him by virtue of living in Japan, are part of that Heritage.

They understand it-- they just do not in the least bit identify with it. Are they interested in visiting to see? Sure. Its on the list. Do they hear stories about DHs cliff diving or scuba diving or whatever, having grown up on an island in the South pacific? Sure. Do they identify with it any more opr less than with my having grown up in the NE (they did not). No.