I think the following sums it up best. its how you peceive the Alter heim. Do you see the Alter Heim as a place of tranquility where everyone lived together without being bothered, Keeping Mitzvoth, Learning torah, A Gan Eden so to speak. Or do you see the Alter heim as a miserable place of Poverty, Pogroms etc, the kind of place you want to get away from.
Is Yiddish Mamma Loshon or is it an invisible ghetto wall to keep people locked in