For Asian immigrants, home is, for better or worse, a place that is very rooted in tradition.
History has a way of intruding the present, and shaping the future.
That is one of the things that makes home so safe for us. In America, so much of that gets lost, but I must say that in many ways, it is a far better thing when we abandon some of our old ways and adapt to the new. Back home, certain groups never interacted in any meaningful ways. Japanese and Koreans, for example, never ever got along. Chinese and their Vietnamese cousins have been feuding for over a thousand years.