I could do without most of the traditions of my ancestors, but I do wish my grandparents had seen fit to pass on the Portuguese language rather than deliberately making certain it stopped with their generation. A similar assimilation story really with the details changed (Azorean Portuguese were largely pursued and exploited by their own monarch), and now we’re as “white” as “white” gets though if you look at us, the ethnic Portuguese aspect is pretty much impossible to miss.