Assimilation : levels of education, socio‐economic status, marital status, levels of education and socio‐economic status, marital status, labor force participation, religiosity, age, and gender;, religiosity, age, and gender;
I remain confused at how the actual degree of asimmilation that has occurred here seems unnoticed. And it appears to be like any other population; the older the members of the family system have done less than their kids.
But IMO dad held onto his cultural a bit more, but the meida still needs to paint him as non assimlated. How folks have not taken note of his embracing American notions is befuddling.
We are a materilistic society. It is hard to ignore dad selling insurance, living in an upper middle class home, a medcedes and antoher vehicle in his driveway , educating his children, and becoming fastideous about american clothing. Those are indicators of assimalting. He held on to some oh his older views marrying his son off, homosexuality,and beleive in in the Koran. Does assimilation actually mean total abdonment of ones religion? No.
He wasn't a radical muslim. He feels pretty much identical as my my father and mother, we are Jewsih, about the Isreal Patestine issue. Dad has issues with Pakistan and his home land of Afgastian. My folks are not orthdsox jews by ANY stretch of the imagination, yet they endorse percieived wounds to Isreal in the identical OM dad regarding the homeland .
Gererationally, did his family system assimilate more? Yes
His son just died, and shot 100 people, and in everyone of his "appearences" he looks like he spent an hour and half before he opened the door to his many internviews., in flashy very Western atire. That embracing American culture IMO
Did he educated his children (collage) yes, thats a very American belief system.
Socio econmically did he embrace our culture - indeed. Did OM appear to be living in poverty no. $14 an hour clears out at what $1600 a month. I would assume when (not sure) when OM agreed to forced maggiage, dad may have done some stuff financially.
Did dad move a bit from arranged marriage on his sons second marriage - appears so- more assimation.
labor force participation: His son guarded institions of the United States of AMerica
I think these two statemetns IMO are really important
Islamic societies are also strongly religious in their values, while in comparison mostWestern countries are almost always more secular. far less tolerant towards issues of sexualliberalization, as manifested in their attitudes towards abortion, divorce and homosexuality.
So its kinda like if AMerica is at a 8 on homophobia generally at the start and Islam is 10 if both cultures drop 2 in the direction of less rigidity that is movemetn, but it is still 8-6!
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4481625/Norris_MuslimIntegration.pdf?sequence=1