Religion and culture have a lot to do with how Asian American Families are able to stay in touch with their Asian roots. But Asian religion is not one dimensional. Asian immigrants arrive to the United States with a variety of different religions including Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity.
Religion and culture play a vital role for Asian American Families in making the transition to American life easier. If they have their religion and culture have long been a focus of many Asian American Families in order to cope with the physical and environmental change.
Asian American Families will use their tradition religion and culture beliefs and alter them to make them more up to date in their new environment.
Religion and culture are both ingrained into Asian families when they are younger. They are taught and preached the fundamental principles of said religion, thus the religion and culture are well ingrained in them.
To ensure an easier transition into America life, these beliefs of religion and culture help them to become more keen on the idea of becoming part of the Asian American community. Asian American families are thus more able to relate to their home culture, but experience the American way of life to create a good balance.
In Asian American Families they hold the belief through their religion that there are no individuals, rather each person is born with a very different nature based upon his parents' situations upon birth. Therefore, in traditional America we all believe we are born equal, this is not the case for Asian families. Therefore when Asian American Families come to America there is somewhat of a discontinuity in beliefs. Choice rules over American families, and social building blocks are the fundamentals for Asian families. So where does that leave the Asian American Families belief?
So now, the church for Asian American families has become a huge venue for them to continue their current religion and culture. Since there is such a heavy emphasis on how much their culture has to do with their religious beliefs, Asian American families flock to America's churches.
It is important to the religion and culture of Asian American families to escape persecution from their homeland, and find a better place here in America where they are not targeted based on familial values.
Some Asian cultures such as the Hmong have a harder time adjusting to the American way of life because they are traditionally farmers, so coming to live in the Urban dwellings of America may be a more difficult transition. However if they hold tight to their religion and culture, it will easier for them to adjust to the difficult transition.
Also, if Asian American families find themselves among other Asian American families, there is more of chance of them integrating into society easier. If they associate within each other, there can be an exchange of religion and culture and they can share their experience of adapting their religion and culture to become more accustomed to the Asian American way of life.