Marios Experience Balancing Two Types of Cultures

So im back again to make another postin, last time I made a post about some of the examples of how life from an Italian perspective differed from a common North American perspective, so Im just going to go a little further into that. When facing these differences I am kind of forced to also make some adjustments, to my behaviour and this is how the idea of a hyphenated life comes into play. I need to act differently around my friends then I do around my family and relatives. Certain things are parts of life that my friends and even myself would consider normal, my family has a hard time processing, so when Im around them everything changes. I have to talk differently around them, pretend im more focused on the aspects of life that they are interested in, and sometimes even leave out certain things abuot my life when they ask me questions. I know it seems like that is a little bit fake but to me it seems like whats necessary in order to kind of keep everything in a somewhat harmonious state. Parrallel to that i also sometimes need to keep my family life separate from my friends, I have a lot of Italian friends living in similiar situations so with them we all understand eachother and can talk openly but I also have a lot of friends who are native to North America for 3 or 4 generations and with them it was clear that i sort of need to separate out my family life and maybe not get into too much detail because even though they are all open minded and willing to listen it was clear early on that they didnt totally understand all of the things and aspects of the culture, so to keep things simple i just try to cut it out. So thats the last post ill make about my life.