I've also said this about kung fu in the UK (and elsewhere). There seem to be a lot of guys trading off the fact that they've been around since the seventies, or that they're chinese, or both. For example there is a gentleman who is very senior in the BCCMA who is technically poor and claims to teach a system that no-one's ever heard of with no history or lineage that he learned from his Chinese father in law. Now if I opened up a school like that now I'd be a laughing stock, but it seems if you teach rubbish for long enough then you become respectable.
There is also another gentleman of Malay Chinese origin who goes on about his lineage from one master who is a disciple of a very famous Sifu, yet hardly ever teaches anything that that sifu taught. Instead he teaches a load of other styles completely unconnected and never divulges his lineages for them.
Both these people have a major stake in BCCMA team selections!