This is probably a result of the broken American education system more than anything.
You have about 5% of tertiary education enrollments in for-profit schools, which are useless debt traps/GI bill theft mills for the most part.
Then you have the majority of people with Liberal Arts degrees which is basically the 21st century version of a high school education
However, University in the US has been sold as basically a guarantee as a job, so it doesn't pan out this way.
Then K-12 is always experimenting with curriculum and as a result has created students with poor foundational skills
Due to the "Century of Humiliation" and subsequent time to catch back up (so almost 2 centuries), most Chinese migrants are probably economic. I don't think the longing is necessarily a product of ostracism, but rather just the product of China's rise.
One of the owners of the Africa Channel, Paula Madison, is a Black American, but also Hakka Chinese, has been very well known for organizing the Afro-Chinese-Caribbean community to get in touch with their Chinese roots
Steph Curry (NBA Star) recently signed a deal with Li-Ning. He is in the twilight of his career, but certainly still a huge name. His wife has always talked about her Jamaican Chinese roots.
Something like 1/3rd of Hawaiians have some Chinese background (). It is super common for Native Hawaiians to be part Chinese such as the voice of Moana, Auliʻi Cravalho.
You would most likely find the same percentage of Filipinos with Chinese background. A lot of Filipinos that talk about having "Spanish blood", if the west continues its decline, they will probably start talking about being Chinese.
