My racial background can be best discribed as a Heinz 57!  I am a true American...all four of my grandparents came from a different country...a baseball playing Cubano, an exhiled Russian Jew, an American born Italian American and my very colorful Italian born grandfather.  He came to America to find his fortune...sent for his wife and son and they wouldn't come!  He stayed here...but the Catholic church didn't believe in divorce...so he just didn't tell my grandmother about the other wife and son!  His American family found out about his Italian family after he died...he had some land in Italy that he left to his legal wife and son...

...so on that note...here is a little Italian joke...it means more when you have the background.  I laughed pretty hard...enjoy! icart

 At the church's Seminar For Husbands, the Priest asked Luigi, about his
 upcoming 50th wedding anniversary, to take a few minutes and share some
 insight into how he managed to stay married to the same woman all these
 years.
 
Luigi replied to the audience "Well, I'm-a tried to treat her a-well,
 spend-a da money on her, but-a, da best - a is - a dat I took her to 
Italy for da 20th anniversary!
 
The Priest immediately commented, "Luigi, you are an amazing inspiration
 to all the husbands here! Please tell the audience what you are planning
 for your wife for your 50th anniversary..."
 
Luigi proudly replied ..."I'm-a gonna go and-a get her."