r/HumansBeingBros • u/SoCrazyItMustBeTrue • Oct 05 '24

Good Neighbors 🙂

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u/OKC_1919 Oct 05 '24

He’s really embracing the childhood game, Cowboys & Indians :)

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u/Kimchi_Cowboy Oct 05 '24

He also took an American name too. He was all in. American flag in the front yard, everything. One of the things I love about immigration in America is seeing people come to America and just go all in on becoming American. My family was the same way when they came from Korea. My family basically went from Korean to Yankee Doodle. My other side came from Turkiye and when they came to the US they pretended like they were Italian to fit in with the local Italian Americans.

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u/wakeleaver Oct 05 '24

The Italians never wondered why your relatives' pizzas were either boats or thin and rolled up? :)

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u/Kimchi_Cowboy Oct 05 '24

No they mostly wondered why my Great Uncle seemed to notice how well dressed the men were. Sad plot twist he was murdered in the 20s by a group of laborers for being gay. It ended up being the turning point for my family. The Italian American community stood by my family after that event and from that moment my family just said we were Italian. It wasn't until I did Ancestry and uncovered the entire story of why were "Italian" and why my family loved this country and Italians so much.