A second-generation immigrant will never truly know the sacrifices their parent generations had made in moving to said country until they themselves attempt it themselves- namely their mother country. Then they will realize

a) The difficulties in adjusting to life in a different country, and
b) How comfortably the parent generations would have lived in the mother country, how normal they would have been treated, if they had stayed in their country. How all the eccentricities I had to juggle are ways of living in a particular society. How much further this mother country has progressed past the standards my parent generation still possess.