Fellow Romania to US immigrant here and here's my story:

For a long time Romania was under a Communist dictatorship and as a result many Romanians fled the country due to unimaginable poverty. Many died in the process of escaping (an uncle of mine included) but some managed to get to a bordering country and then get a legal visa to come to the US. Once our Communist leader was overthrown and shot democracy was declared in '91, the year I was born. As a result, Romania started to become a much better place but at this point most of my uncles and aunts had already started new lives in the US and since it was completely legal to migrate to the US, my parents did along with me an 8-month year old baby. Growing up in the US has been an amazing blessing and while I was still raised in a strictly European-style and religious household I've come to the point in my life where I have learned how to assimilate into modern US society and become successful. While it is definitely true that there are a plethora of things in the European-American household that the elders say "should be different about the society we live in" they don't go out of their way and neither try to force their views upon others. If there are any issues, every single person has the ability to go back right where they came from and follow their views there. You don't come to another country and try to change its views to yours. You take whatever laws that country has and it becomes your new bread and butter, otherwise gtfo. This is the process of assimilation and everything I described about this process is a far more difficult process in Muslim communities, mainly because they place a much larger influence on staying true to their belief system with absolutely zero compromise. I think that is also the main problem in their integration into modern-society. While I have met many Muslims who really just want to live the "American Dream" it is most definitely not the popular opinion among them to accept Western values into their culture and belief system. That's why their assimilation has been stagnant if not going in reverse. People like to say that "modernization" will eventually fix that like it fixed other strictly religious ideals such as in European society but the truth is I'm just not seeing it. I'm sorry if this was a bit of a rant or if it came off as racist, I didn't intend for it to sound so I just wanted for people to see this from an immigrant's perspective and thought I am not a first-generation American I definitely was able to integrate Western values into my beliefs and ultimately lifestyle.