It’s more a result of the multiculturalism that California got stuck with via mass immigration from the third world.
About ten years ago an Asian girl was valedictorian at UCI and her speech was a blistering condemnation of America. It was printed in the paper but there wasn’t much public reaction to it.
Gratitude for and love of America don’t come just because they live here. A lot of these kids have a chip on their shoulder and there’s plenty of college courses that reinforce it.
Except if you read the article, it is a Vietnamese immigrant behind the protection of the flag.