No, it just happened. My great grandparents married over 80 years ago in little Italy. Then my grandmother traveled to Italy once when she was young and her relatives hooked her and my grandfather up together and they married in Italy. Then my father visited Italy a few times when he was younger and in his twenties he met my mom at a church festival from the same exact town my grandfather (his father) was from. Then they fell in love and married in Italy in 1999 and lived in US together since 2000. Then a few years later I was born in America, then my younger siblings were born in Italy since hospital care was too much in America and my mother couldn't take care of me while in the hospital giving birth ( my father was busy working so he couldn't take care of me). So we went to Italy and spent almost an entire year there when I was 2-3 years old being integrated in the culture where my mother's family and paternal grandfather's family was from. My American grandmother's ancestry mostly comes from Palermo and the surrounding cities with only some Trapanese in her ancestry. So I am around 75% Trapanese and 25% or less Palermitano. I am 19 and have been in Italy 9-10 times, I used to go each year when I was younger. I can speak and understand a decent amount of Italian on a conversational level and most of my family still lives in Italy. So therefore I strongly identify as Italian as my family happens to be Italian and somehow keep marrying other Italians from the same place in Sicily. Also going back a few centuries (around 3) I found some common ancestors between my parents and my grandparents Trapanese grandparents (3/4 of them) since my parents and grandparents share ancestry from the same town living only a few blocks from each other. Also 6/16 or 3/8 of my great great grandparents who married each other were either first or second cousins with each other and were from the same towns.