YES! and if you sit with an open mind this has been going on in humanity since the beginning. It's all about a desire for control no matter what the culture. The desire is about designing a structure that controls a group or population in order to have some control of predictability. The way to control has always been "guilt tripping". That is why so many human beings struggle with depression, stress, anxiety to name a few challenges. If you just think about how you struggle yourself, proof, that it works. Also, when it comes to politics and religion? People will literally hate others who don't go along with "their" beliefs and they always insist believing other then what they believe is out right stupidity. Now that we have all this technology we are all exposed to the reality of this fact. One is instructed to color inside the lines, but that all goes out the window when you find out someone is different. That is exactly what you have talked about facing when you go back home to visit for a while. That is also what you are reminded of with every interaction you have with your parents. You have outgrown them, you have left that culture and ventured out, you have opened your mind up to other ideas and possibilities and you have come to realize how restricting your parents cultural conditioning is. YET, this is not unique to you, with each generation comes a bit of change and growth. If it were not for that we would all be living shorter lives and we would not have all the modern amenities we have available to us now.

The challenge you are having with your parents is that you have "outgrown" them. But, the truth about human nature is that is what is supposed to happen, that is what makes it possible to gain in our ability to survive. Guilt and shaming can pull someone backwards into some kind of control, it's always been proven effective in human nature.