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> most staunchly conservative/religious migrants in favor of That was my first thought as well, but it turns out that an interesting quirk of being an expat in
by jiggawatts 2y ago
> most staunchly conservative/religious migrants in favor of
That was my first thought as well, but it turns out that an interesting quirk of being an expat in a country with a different religion is that most such groups will essentially "double down" on their own belief. Essentially back at their home country they felt comfortable with a minimal, token faith because they were immersed in it anyway, but away from it they feel their ethnic identity "under attack" and hence they cling more strongly to certain aspects of it.
- standardUser 2y agoThere's the opposite trend too, wherein the risk-takers who are willing to uproot themselves from their traditional societies and forge new lives in a new world are not particularly devoted to tradition. And even when they are, there's the secondary trend where their children have little connection to that old world and are enamored by the new one they've grown up in. The big exception I see to this is among asylum groups who start new lives not for ambition or adventure or hope, but out of fear and necessity, sometimes entirely against their will. And though my Western guilt hates to restate it, the assimilation-adverse trend seems to be strongest among strict adherents to Islam.