older Japanese-Americans told the activistsTM that their anti-kimono protest was barmy and insulting to Japanese culture itself, so they retrenched and said it was only for Asian-Americans sufficiently college-educated in insulting tropes from back when Taft was president (and the event was about 1890s paintings of Europeans in kimonos so it was poking comment at a fad)

like, one of the protesters was Dominican IIRC

actually a lot of scholars have noted that it's the Nth generation that's most interested in Khalistan/26+6/those Soviet meanies forcing Pop-Pop to flee just because he edited one little newspaper/instructions on how to hijack a garbage truck: 1st-gen of course actually came from the village, and their kids'll know all that firsthand from home, and even speak English technically as their second language; but it's the acculturated later ones who undergo a "rediscovery" of their "heritage," but who can only experience everything secondhand: it's like how the 19th-c. nationalist revivals were basically forgeries based on one excitable poet's "reconstructions"