Cockney,
I think there is a fun way to explore different cultures. I like to do it through my interest in tennis. My list of favorite tennis players includes three Spaniards, a Serb (not Djokovic), an Argentinean of Italian and Spanish heritage and a Russian who plays for Uzbekistan. Denis Istomin could be very multicultural by himself. He was born in Russia, in a town on the Kazakhstan border, moved to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, now lives in Moscow and travels all over the world. He has a fan in an American woman of mixed German and Italian heritage.