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Originally Posted by red-beard
Which goes to the discussion in the other thread. The kids of non-radicalized parents are being radicalized. Why?
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It is a good question with a regrettably simple answer.
The guts of it is that parents immigrate to a new land for whatever reason, usually economic, and most usually maintain significant elements of their original culture, religion and habits, in part to ease their personal cultural shock and in part as they, being adults, tend not to make large changes in the experiences and beliefs they grew up with.
The kids grow up then in a schizophrenic place where at home the practice the home country's culture, language (usually) and most of their contacts are from the homeland, but out in school they face a totally different experience in terms of language, culture, habits and so forth.
If the delta between the new culture and the home country's culture is large (as it is between Western culture and Islam), then this schizophrenia becomes a big deal. Kids feel they do not belong either place and usually snap into an extreme version of one or the other.
Joining the new culture usually alienates the parents and causes all manner of issues (witness honour killings and such as happen all to regularly with immigrants to Western countries).
Joining the old culture gives rise to the extremist views when Islam is involved and you then have a jihadi, born in country but who is crazed as any and literally....Boom!
Dennis