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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8494058"><p>My sense is the answer to this idea varies a lot across the US (I lived on both coasts and it didn't seem to have the same meaning on the west coast as the east). I am Italian, Jewish and Irish, and live in the Boston area (and was born here). I usually just say I am Italian if people ask because that is the ethnic culture I was surrounded by growing up. But I know a little about the Jewish side as well (we celebrated some holidays). I know very little about being Boston Irish but have a lot of cousins who I would say fit that description. All three of those groups are more than just ethnic heritage here. There is a culture that emerged around them. Not the same as being from those actual countries. I think in the US, there are these pockets where local culture was shaped by groups who came here and it still has significance to this day (even if you don't belong to one of those groups you might have grown up in a place where there was a food and way of looking at the world that derived from it).</p></blockquote><p></p>