We are a big mix of nationalities in this area. Okay, I'm a melting pot myself, with over 11 nationalities easily identified on my family tree.

Where I grew up, there were lots of French-Canadian families. So much so that most kids I knew called one set of grandparents Mémé and Pépé, and the other Grandma and Grandpa. Also lots of people of long-ago emigrated English ancestors (pilgrims and the like), and Worcester, nearby, had a very big Swedish population. Yup, I'm all three of those - and more!

Where we live now is very ethnically diverse. There's a big Russian immigrant population - we have a Russian section once a month in the local weekly paper. But our gas station attendents come from all over, Pakistan, Ukraine, Russia, Guatemala ...

There's a big Irish-American population, of course, and African-Americans - everyone knows that about Boston, right? And Haitians, Brazilians, Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, Greeks, the city my church is in (one over) is heavily Armenian ...

I love it! You never know what accents you are going to encounter where!