Numrich 2007

The US in the last decade in the twentieth century surpassed the first decade of the country in its admission of immigrants.

The country's ethnic roots are now more latin american and asian american than european american.

This means there is also a lot more religious diversity, with the Muslim religion being second only to Christianity in the country.

Conservative Immigrants

Many of the religious immigrants find the non-traditional views of America to be worrisome as their cultures and values are centered more on traditional family values.
Many immigrants worry that their children will fall away from their culture and religion and fall into American mainstream liberal culture (premarital sex, drugs, alcohol, violence, lack of respect for elders). Many immigrants also have more conservative, solid, and strict views on issues such as homosexual marriage, cohabitation, and divorce, etc.

This worries many cultures, and the Muslim Americans in Chicago even at one point in the 1970s had the idea to carve out a Muslim part of the city with a mosque, school, dorms, and everything else so as to preserve their culture and keep themselves apart to protect their children from the influence of modern America.

While 99% of immigrants believe that America is technologically advanced and ahead, and they can learn a lot from that... they also feel unsafe in the toxic culture. (This chapter says this a TON and just gives like a million examples of different people saying the same thing. It's really redundant)

The term "immigrant puritanism" is introduced as a biproduct of coming into a new culture that is SO different from your own and seeing the stark contrast and is a normal/typical reaction to the ethical and moral disorientation of immersion in a new culture.

The chapter then talks about this immigrant conservatism isn't new and how immigrants have had these fears ever since there were immigrants.

The chapter then talks about American Christianity becoming more diverse ethnically and doctrinally less moderate due to this trend in immigration. Also morally more conservative, especially regarding the family.

In summary, the chapter ends with some trends that are being seen, like the more time immigrants spend in America the more relaxed they get about some of these things. And then poses some hypothetical questions about where the trend will go from here and how everyone/thing will continue to influence each other.