You'll find the common thread you notice also forms part of what links Maosim with the American communist and, in particular, black nationalist movements of the mid-late 20th century. I think, based on your understanding of that thread, you can appreciate the reasons why. As for the HK protest movement, I can't say I fully relate to or understand what you describe. I get the irony of being pressured to conform to a culture of materialism that feels imported, but I doubt it's as repressive as the CCP that crushed them. I'd wager the protestors were waving American and UK flags and English signage because they knew Beijing would brand them as foreign agents anyway, and they needed at least some international visibility and support if they were to have any chance at all. The outspoken affinity for democratic norms and the rule of law is certainly a result of foreign influence. As for white skin being a sign of beauty/success in East Asia, that predates colonialism.
Of course, luxury beliefs are deeper than that, too. I'm not sure I can come up with a precise definition of what you describe. I'd imagine it's as much an amalgamation of traditional East Asian cultural values like intellectualism, work ethic and perseverance as it is perhaps conferring outsized importance on those things as a result of modernity. The traditional obsession with "face" merely injects steroids into the realities of capitalism, which has an impact everywhere, not just in Asia. I think what you associate with being "woke" or "anti-woke" here is the intensely competitive emphasis on public display of ideological conformity, and that's why you compared it to Chinese communism. But like I said, I can't fully relate, so perhaps I'm missing something.I should be more specific back there, I did not mean "a desire to associate with elites" is the definition of this inverse-woke, but one way it can be viewed. It's deeper than that.
In Wholefoods they put dirt on potatoes to increase sales, but in Japan veggies are wrapped in lots of plastic and made to look clean. I would describe it as whatever THAT is at it's core for both "woke" and "inverse-woke" respectively.
I do think Americans understand the importance of family/community to East Asians, but I doubt you would find much traction for your idea with the Cult of Woke. These are the kind of people that claim Asian Americans are "part of the problem" of "whiteness," are therefore class/race traitors for the reasons you describe, and thus are basically white. Do you value work ethic and intellectualism? Sorry, looks like you were brainwashed by the White Man (TM). To accept that Asian Americans get ahead in part because many Asian cultures value things like work ethic and personal discipline would undermine the core of their ideology, which asserts "systemic racism" as the active ingredient in any societal disparity. Much like today's tankies that can't imagine any country other than America having agency in international affairs, the Cult of Woke necessarily believes one can either rebel against the whites or simp for them. It's a projection of their own racist ideology that places European colonialism at the center of human affairs, replacing class with race in the traditional framework of Marxism. It's how we got tenured professors like this American woman, who makes a living preaching the "anti" racist message that Africans discovered America and thus the whites need to be "taken out" as revenge for stealing not just the world, but reality itself.The model minority stereotype bites the Asian American community in the behind, because if you are doing well then you must be exploiting the system or some other group for your own advantage. The desire to be modernistic prevents them from offering communitarian and old fashioned values as the reason behind their success.
One of the ironies of the Cult of Woke is, demanding adherence to concepts like evidence and objectivity is an example of white supremacy, which I can only assume is a grave injustice.
When I visited Korea, the young son of my wife's friend found me to be fascinating for similar reasons. He asked to hold my hand and take pics with me to brag to his friends that he met a "real American" for the first time, and wanted me to cart him around and hug him as though I were a favorite relative. Sweet kid. As it relates to the topic, I would chalk his affinity up to a fascination with the "other" he had heard about but never experienced first hand, and I'd imagine that's also why more liberal strata in East Asia are attracted to western norms they can relate to. Without institutional dominance, though, I wouldn't worry too much about feminism playing a big role going forward. The Korean president plans to close the short-lived "gender equality ministry" in any case. That'd get you assassinated in the US, if an angry mob didn't catch you first.Now, math education itself has been deemed “racist.” A group of educators just released a document calling for a transformation of math education that focuses on “dismantling white supremacy in math classrooms by visibilizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect to math.”
Beyond activism, these recommendations also argue that traditional approaches to math education promote racism and white supremacy, such as requiring students to show their work or prioritizing correct answers to math problems. The document claims that current math teaching is problematic because it focuses on “reinforcing objectivity and the idea that there is only one right way” while it “also reinforces paternalism.”
https://fee.org/articles/woke-educat...ite-supremacy/