Symbolic alienation?

Turkey Is Basic, but Immigrants Add Their Homeland Touches:

"Turkey has become so iconic to our mythic heritage that by cooking that turkey, even if you don't like it, you are part of something bigger," said Lucy Long, a professor of popular culture at Bowling Green State University and the author of "Culinary Tourism" (University Press of Kentucky, 2003). "You are symbolically showing unity."

My wife doesn't like turkey (she maintains that most other Chinese don't, either), and I'm indifferent to it. It's been many years since I've had it. So that means I'm rejecting the American way of life?