I’m mixed race but have family from the other side of the border from where you are from, and I can’t stand my cousins. I feel incredibly happy not to be surrounded by my cousins. Brothers and sisters, like them or not, they are close family. Cousins for me are some sort of twilight zone where I feel nothing in common with them, don’t even like them, but have to be nice because they are “family”. I like the American way of treating cousins as essentially not real relatives. Be friends with them if you happen to get along, but otherwise they are just some random strangers