...Although it starts with the second generation who starts the process in order to become a part of America.
You see it today in parts of Brooklyn. Arab kids driving their parents crazy by wearing the latest hip-hop fashions, etc.
I live in No. Virginia and I have a lot of Iranian friends...a few who’s parents care here when the Shah was overthrown but most who came here after when they were in their teens. Believe me, every single one of them is Americanized, hell more then me in some circumstances :)
A lot of immigrants embrace being American’s 110%. My friends eat a lot of Persian food, speak Farsi among themselves but that’s about all that ties them back to where they came from.