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- What is your ethnic / cultural background?


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Irish/English on my mother's side, Russian Jew on my dad's side.
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- How big a role does it play in your life?


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I'm Jewish enough (mom converted before marrying my dad) that most Jewish girls won't get disowned for dating me.
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- How far removed are you from the immigrant generation of your family? (in the end we are all immigrants, except for the Natives)


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My father's grandparents came over in the early 1900s to escape pogroms/persecutions/etc. Mother's side has been here since the 1700's.
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- Do you maintain any traditions from the "old country"?

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Nope.