My sentiment is that if you've committed to becoming a citizen of another country, there is a duty on your part to integrate yourself into their culture. Isolating yourself and shutting out from the rest of the social world doesn't benefit anybody or any party involved.
Arriving in a country, using that country's resources and deciding not to participate in that country's society and values, to me, is incredibly selfish. But at the same time, I do defend their right not to participate if they don't want to. There's just a moral / ethical obligation to do so to me, that's all.
In both countries I've lived in on opposite sides of the world, I've met way more people who choose to integrate themselves into that country's respective culture as opposed to not integrating. There's alot of interest and good discussion when you chat with foreigners from different parts of the world about their cultures / values and then compare and contrast, I find.
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