A REAL QUICK ONE

Having spent four years of my teenage life in the US, most Fil-Ams I have met always say they are part Spanish. I mean, almost always. Even the ones with noses wider than my forehead, or eyes narrower than my mind, or those sho... you get what I mean?

Living here, I have never heard anyone here claim that they have spanish blood. I know I don't, have spanish blood, I mean.

Why is that?