WTF?!?!?
Why HK'ers don't think they're Chinese?
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I think the key is realizing the historic amount that Mandarin speakers/Beijing crapped on the Cantonese. (Hence why so many traveled Asia as merchants.) So a lot of HKers feel some affinity for people from Guangzhou and the rest of Liangguang (muted for SZ since so many people from elsewhere and largely Mandarin-speaking); however, that does not extend to much affinity for people from elsewhere. The mainland government hasn't helped their case by cutting Cantonese programming in Guangdong and preferencing Shanghai over HK. Put it all together and it is easy to feel an us-vs-them dynamic.
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We want Britain rule back - anything to get rid of the j.e.a.l.o.u.s pe*ea*se*nts from the f*il*thy main*land
You wouldn't like it if the Brits rule Hong Kong again. Hong Kong was an experiment, and you have John Cowperthwaite, not Great Britain in general, to thank for that. The Brits implemented socialist policies at home but used Hong Kong as an experiment for laissez-faire policies:
https://www.hoover.org/research/hong-kong-experiment
https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/10/milton_friedman.htmlHong Kong would probably not thrive if Britain grants all Hong Kongers citizenship and with it the crippling socialist welfare for British citizens, unless of course Britain also does One Country Two Systems.
Your best bet is still independence. Why let another country decide your fate?
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Start by granting British Overseas Passports full British Passports, make them citizens of the UK. This is easier to do for the sake of freedom.
As a stepping stone to independence yes but this shouldn't be the endgame.
BTW this is also how Singapore gained independence (ironically from Britain), first by becoming part of Malaysia, and then later separating from it.
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Start by granting British Overseas Passports full British Passports, make them citizens of the UK. This is easier to do for the sake of freedom.
As a stepping stone to independence yes but this shouldn't be the endgame.
Good grief. It would never happen in a million years. Pretending that it did happen, it would be an infinitely better "endgame" then the one that's in store for Hong Kong.
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Because modern "Chinese" population is bastardized with northern nomadic genes. HKgers, and Cantonese in general, have a different "Southern" culture. It's like asking why the Dutch don't consider themselves German. The Liangguang area should have seceded a long time ago like us Vietnamese did.
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Singapore was abandoned by Malaysia. It's a totally different story.
Start by granting British Overseas Passports full British Passports, make them citizens of the UK. This is easier to do for the sake of freedom.
As a stepping stone to independence yes but this shouldn't be the endgame.
BTW this is also how Singapore gained independence (ironically from Britain), first by becoming part of Malaysia, and then later separating from it.