What does the poem El Olvido mean?

Question

What does this poem mean? and what's the tone of it??

It is a dangerous thing

to forget the climate of your birthplace

to choke out the voices of dead relatives

when in dreams they call you

by your secret name.

It is dangerous

to spurn the clothes you were born to wear

for the sake of fashion; dangerous

to use weapons and sharp instruments

you are not familiar with; dangerous

to disdain the plaster saints

before which your mother kneels

praying with embarrassing fervor

that you survive in the place you have chosen to

live:

a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls,

a forgetting place where she fears you will die

of loneliness and exposure.

Jesus, Maria y Jose, she says,

El Olvido is a dangerous thing.

Answer 1

It is a stern tone and is talking about the dangers of becoming so wrapped up in the world that you forget your roots and where you came from.

When you leave the nest, be careful not forget Who you are and who helped form who you are.  

Never be ashamed of where you came from, but embrace it and use it.