Part okinawan here. Okinawans are a proud bunch and there's always that kinship. Can always tell who's okinawan, lol, I always get asked. I always identify as part okinawan even though those outside of Hawaii don't really understand.

Though I don't really have much specific okinawan stories, words, etc. I was close to my okinawan side but I grew up typical local asian I guess with a smattering of local, Hawaiian, japanese/okinawan things. My grandparents were born here, lived a bit of the plantation life. But my grandma would cook anything from pigs feet soup to baked spaghetti, pork adobo, batayaki or whatevers. They'd speak japanese (to each other or friends) but otherwise typical pidgin english mixed with hawaiian or japanese. I rarely went okinawan or obon festival and went the cultural center maybe once.

But yeah, not just okinawan but probably even japanese or even our greater local Hawaii culture is changing. Whether it's people moving away, dying off, intermixing, etc. But then again the world has changed, modernization, society, priorities and so on. As I get older I think about my heritage more and feel a sense of nostalgia too, I used to not really care. I don't know, maybe there'll be a groundswell movement among young folks, whether it's due to covid or "woke" culture or whatever. I feel like there was some resurgence of Hawaiian language and culture in recent years so who knows. But then again, I think a lot of the Japanese/okinawans are older with their kids on the mainland, so who knows what Hawaii will look like in say 30yrs.