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Yah, that makes sense to me, I heard that there were lots of authentic Theravada all over the place due to immigrant communities, I imagine there are many authentic converts as you mention. In case you're curious The California Ideology is pretty much what exists today where there were once hippies: https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology (tldr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology (LessWrong is an excellent example of this on the internet))