people have told me im not hispanic at all because i wasnt born in mexico and cant speak spanish its not common but its not an unusual way of thinking either theyre totally wrong though

You are who you are, and that's a complete person. If you try to improve on your butchering of the language, people will respect the whole you even more.

It sounds like they are just finding a way to insult you. I do not know where you live but, if you are in the States, you probably are annoying people by correcting them and they are just finding an *ssholish way to express this (I read your comment in another answer). If you are in China I do not know the culture so I cannot tell. I do know that "halves" get some hades. I am 3/4 blooded Romani ("Gypsy") and a few morons say that I do have the right to speak the language (er, or what of it I remember of it) because I am didikai (halfbreed). Good on you for speaking the language well enough to be able to correct in the first place.

That person's a dumbass.

I agree with the other answers here... that person was a dumbass and it sounds like they're just looking for a way to insult or upset you.

No, that's the attitude of a typical racist, bigotted fool. I'm willing to bet you anything that person doesn't even know where China is and hasn't been out of this country once. That's your typical American asshole trying to have the world live according to his standards and knocking down and destroying anything they don't understand

You can actually find this sort of "purity" attitude in most countries...back during the Spanish Conquest of Mexico - Even 100% Spanish people born in the Americas weren't considered truly Spanish, and "Peninsular" Spaniards assumed that they were lazy or uncivilized. It's quite ridiculous because (A) Blood doesn't determine a person's character, and (B) Place of birth doesn't determine a person's ethnicity. Racially, if both of your parents are 100% Chinese, then so are you. With regards to nationality though, you can still say you are "Chinese-American" or whatever else - that's up to you, not biology.

1) I am French and my wife is German. My 8 year old girl was one told that she was half-French. She answered that she is not half-French and half-German, but whole French and whole German. I think no one likes to be considered a half-something. 2) "Flippancy aside, there seems to be several ways to be Chinese. One obvious criterion concerns the uncomfortable subject of ethnicity and phenotype. Either one is born genetically Chinese, or not at all. But what does this mean? Genetic definitions of Chinese-ness can be extremely arbitrary, as they do not always correspond to conventional notions of fluency in Chinese (in all its vastly different dialects), understanding of Chinese traditions or loyalty to the PRC. Other than denoting a certain combination of DNA, being born Chinese, to whatever degree, is meaningless without taking the social environment into account. Worse, the pervasive and rather retchworthy sentimentality of phrases like "Your mother is in your bones!" (Am Tan) merely fuels an indulgent exotification of an otherwise unremarkable human being." "Being Chinese is often, therefore, much more of a social construct than such essentialist arguments allow. It is tied to lived experience of Chinese culture, which I will not elaborate on here. Which means that depending on the context, one's genetic make-up sometimes does not even banish the internal flip-flopping between cultures and mindsets. Despite the pretensions of some mixed people to being simultaneously 100% 'Western' and 100% Chinese, I would argue that being mixed is never a zero-sum existence. Any one viewpoint is immediately matched up with its cultural opposite number - a typical example being the tussle between Chinese notions of filial piety and 'decadent' Western individualism. This, I suppose, is the so-called 'experience of ambiguity'. The ambiguity is often made worse by the reactions of others. More often than not, identity - a nationality; a particular ethnic origin is conferred or even imposed on the mixed person. Hence the ink blot allegory: mixed people are purportedly ambiguous entities, to be given a clear structure by the interpreter. They are at once self-defining and actively defined." Source and further information: http://www.sacu.org/halfchinese.html