Or Italian. Got a buddy on Staten Island who lived at home till he was 47, then finally got married and moved out.
Ummmm.... you do realize when you are in that age group and actively involved in the group as well, that you don't observe that well. If you had said that you observed this of people outside of your group sure, OK. But when you are actively engaged you skip over things you don't want to see, and you are also looking back on this so you only remember what you actively didn't skip over. You aren't looking through and unbiased memory that saw everything. You are looking through a memory that took in what it wanted to. It wasn't in the mind set of taking everything in like a scientist.
I bet he played bocci ball with his father and friends in the back yard. And all the old guys told the dad what a good son he had.