I'm not, because I'm fortunate enough that my parents split when I was a tyke and my father was fractured from his family until recently. But it's a vicious cycle. You're constantly criticized in a large family that's constantly looking for acceptance, while older Hebrews are constantly in fear of some horrible calamity in the near future (to their credit, they've gone through slavery, persecution, Holocaust, etc.). It creates an epicenter of neurosis, where all members of the tribe are never emotionally fulfilled, have guilt issues, etc.
No amount of gold and bagels can ever fill the emotional void in a Jew's heart.
This is mostly an East Coast phenomenon, though. Basically, you can blame the refugees from the Holocaust for starting this.
