What's something typical of your culture/race that you exemplify OR defy?

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Anything about you that feeds into popular ideas about your culture or race...whether you like it or not?
Or...anything about you that's opposite of those popular ideas?
(popular/stereotypical/characteristic/blah blah blah...)

I'm half Irish and half Italian.
Irish: We have a few heavy drinkers in dad's family, who always predictably slur their words even more so on holidays.
Thankfully, the drinking bug never bit me (though I do sparingly enjoy my Guinness!).
Italian: Family dramas get exaggerated to the point of sitcom status. The women (as stated in another post) often frustratingly hold their hands in the air...as if strangling something only they can see.
The men can't keep their hands off their women, myself included. Oh, and we want to cook for everyone, then insist you take the extras home to your own family.
I do enjoy my red wine! (-- if it's with dinner or a romantic setting)
 
Being Polish and Bohemian, I love to dance
love bright colored clothes, and cook traditional dishes. We also hug and kiss family members we haven't seen for awhile at family gatherings.

But I think this can be any family set of traditions.
 
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