Sounds like a nice era :)
My nephews/nieces and my cousins’ kids have no idea that they have an ethnicity pretty much :) That’s as it should be.
Third generation it really starts to die out.
Though I wish the parents had spoken italian in the house when they were young, with English of course being the first language.
Kids at that age can very easily learn two languages.
Specialists say six!!
My grandparents on both sides make a deliberate effort to raise my parents as Americans without qualification. My paternal grandfather from County Cork dropped his association with the IRA and became a flag waving American, while my father's parents forbade their five boys from speaking Polish in the home and required that they instead "speak American." If nothing else, I can be grateful that I have no sympathies for the IRA and never had the torment of trying to learn Polish.