When I was growing up, I had a friend across the street whose family was Italian-From-Italy. The entire extended clan had moved over together. They had enormous Sunday dinners that I was sometimes invited to, with "exotic" foods I'd never heard of like lasagne and ravioli. I had hardly any cousins and the few I did have I only saw once a year or so, so I never got the experience of a familial clan while growing up. I had to make my own clan (of friends) when I was an adult. Looking back, I would have loved to have that as a kid.