The difference for visible ethnic minorities though is that even with your culture completely assimilated, you cannot hide your racial appearance and people wil

The difference for visible ethnic minorities though is that even with your culture completely assimilated, you cannot hide your racial appearance and people will still treat you based on it. Plenty of Asian-Americans are 2+ generations in America little to no connection with their language and culture, completely assimilated as you say. They're still targeted just because of their appearance, assimilation does nothing to help protect them. For German and Italian Americans, at least assimilation has the intended effect. I suspect there's probably some anger behind assimilating and tossing away cultural roots and identity only to find out it was absolutely pointless that's helping to drive the upsurge in recent Asian-American movements.