Surprised it was Asians and not the usual woke whites that objected. Never actually ran into anyone that cared about their own culture being appropriated.
If you go to a heavily left-wing indoctrinated area that happens to have minorities, you will find the ones that care there.
I guess that is cultural appropriation of white wokism.
Wokism itself (at least the thing that was criticized on the Left before the Right picked it up and used the label to criticize everything they don't like indiscriminately, so that the term has lost any coherent meaning) is a white bourgeios appropriation [0] of proletarian minority solidarity politics.