I've always felt that "roots" is a strange word to use in conjunction with music.   Roots serve a purpose of holding a plant down in place and delivering the nutrients to keep the plant alive. The plant will only grow as it is genetically intended and it will stay put.

Music has much more freedom and less limits. It is intended to spread and infect others. Music can also be a universal language and may be why other cultures pick up and learn to love the music from other cultures.

Why should we be expected to play only the music of our home? How boring is that?

Can you imagine if we limited our diet to intake only the food of our birth?