There'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

There'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.