How much do you know about your roots? Has your whole family always lived in your country or did they immigrate from another country? Why did they come over?
My mothers family back in Italy and carnie folk. They own a fairground. Whenever we go back to visit them, we get to visit the fairground and go on all of the rides for free. Pretty awesome. My grandad, that being my mothers father, came to England after the war. With a lot of the country needing to be rebuilt and most of the countries men having died in the war, they needed workers. There was a company not too far from my town called the London Brick Company. This lead to a lot of Italian workers coming to work. That is why there is now a very large Italian community in my town, Bedford. Most of the Italians in my town are descendants from people who came to work at the London Brick Company. There is even a mention about it on the company's Wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Brick_Company#Italian_influence
After my grandad stopped working there, he was presented with a gift, as was everyone else. He received three commemorative bricks, coloured red, white and green for the Italian flag. We still have these bricks on display in my kitchen.
Then there is my dad. He came over to find work and helped build the railway tracks going from Bedford to London. My dad was a very promising boxer in his younger years. He could have gone professional and even had an opportunity to go to the Olympics one year but he decided against because of the corruption in Italian boxing. That's what he tells us anyway. If he had decided to take that road in his life, I may not have been here.