There's almost 0 state efforts to preserve the cultural identities of immigrants of any kind
When people celebrate "diversity" in the West, it's just eating shawarma, drinking boba, watching Anime, listening to kpop, and eating at an Ethiopian restaurant. Pure commodification and consumerism masquerading as celebration and promotion of foreign cultures
Or you'll have people fetishizing about spicy latinas, lightskins, and Asians like they're fucking Pokemon cards
I think my favorite thing I've every done was joking about spiritual cultivation through constipation with a Chinese foreign exchange student while my Chinese American friend had zero idea what were talking about.
If I never poop, I can become an Immortal.
it's like semen retention but it actually makes sense!