Yeah but the Romance language group was imposed on them through invasions. They were a people before all that with their own ethnic identities and customs and languages. I don't know much about France to be honest, but saying they are Latins is like saying Mexicans are Latins b/c they speak Spanish. I disagree, we could say that ALL the Romance language countries are in the same condition, since the Roman Empire imposed the ancient Latin language on them...    That's why I said countries that  developed  a language based on the ancient Latin language the Latin language may have been imposed, but the languages that were born from that weren't: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian... the peoples of whichever ethnicities that lived in those regions created them by adding influences from their old languages in many cases...    So in that sense all those peoples are Latin and belong to Romance Language Group, that wouldn't even be a group if those different languages wouldn't have sprung from the Latin root.    The case of the Mexicans is totally different, they didn't  developed  anything, they were  taught  a language, which they weren't able to fully learn and thus bastardized it, they don't deserve to be called Latins they never developed anything based on Latin.