Hong Kong VS China

Can you blame them for wanting to go to HK for vacation? If anything, it's like a kind of compliment.

And for the infant powder formula and some other things: it's not like they're purposefully doing it to make life more difficult for Hong Kong people. Disliking them solely based on these things is like judging a person for one thing they did without even trying to see why they did it.

And I wouldn't call the central government evil. It's stereotypes like this that make Westerners compare China to North Korea. The central government may not always do things in the way that people believe to be fair, but it's not like they're going around trying to figure out a way to bomb the whole planet like some villain in a comic book.

Why is it that so many people like to pick on the behavior of the mainland Chinese? The mainland Chinese have only become better off in these past few decades, which means that most of them were (or are) living in villages, not urban cities. Many expect mainland Chinese to have the same living manners as countries whose citizens have been living in urban cities with a great standard of living for much more than a few decades, which I personally find to be unrealistic. To be blunt, the reason why some mainland Chinese do not have the 'simple manners' you're expecting them to have is because they've only recently moved into urban life and it's not easy to make that adjustment to the masses of people that China has.

You can't think of any rational reason for them to buy your baby powder? Exactly my point. You have not tried looking into why they do so. The reason behind this is because baby powder in China has had scandals before (as in unsafe food kind of scandals), so the mainland Chinese really just want to be able to protect their newborns. Presented with this explanation, do they really seem so horrible to you? And I don't think I need to show you that HK's medical facilities are better than many of the local hospitals available in mainland China.

I realize this may be hard to see given how horrific that incident was, but the Chinese government has changed a lot since then. It is not under the power of the same people and it has not done anything like that since then. And with the corruption, yes, it may have corruption, but can you honestly tell me that other countries' governments aren't? The main reason why people see China as corrupt is because they don't cover all of it up. They're open about how they're having a serious drug and luxury crackdown to try and diminish the corruption. It's true that there is not as much freedom of speech in China compared to other countries like America, but again, China is still adjusting. You can't expect it to be perfect with human rights and whatnot just because they're now a big, successful country when they haven't been operating like that before.

And I'm not going to comment on the universal suffrage thing because I feel like if I do, I might end up offending some people here if they don't read my whole explanation.

Yes, my whole point was due to the fact that your original post did not specify that you were only referring to some Mainlanders. Your original post seemed to be regarding all Mainlanders.

If you view everyone that way, you will never be able to understand others. You can't expect people to be a certain way just because it is what you think is right and is what is socially acceptable in countries who have been MDCs for ages. The Mainlanders still are adjusting to the different lifestyle. Urban etiquette is much, much different from rural etiquette. Some things acceptable in rural areas are not in urban areas, and vice versa. I never said you should forgive their rude behavior. I just meant that you could at least take the time to try to understand them out of your own current bias.

I get that you feel it's unfair, but what you're doing is blaming what's happening on the closest cause possible. You see the lack of baby powder and then place all the blame on the people buying it even though the people buying it from there HAVE NO CHOICE. Yes, the Mainlanders may a cause of the inflation in baby powder prices and the lack of them, but it's not like they willingly chose to do so just to spite the Hong Kong people. They have no other option. So instead of blaming the easiest scapegoats for everything and hating them for it, why not look at whether or not they're doing so intentionally and if they have any other options. I'm sorry if I'm not understanding correctly, but how is it that you're paying for their hospital bills? Is it not that hospital bills are only subsidized when the person is a citizen of the country the hospital they are using is in? Or is that not how it works in Hong Kong?

It's always difficult for governments to formally apologize for what they have done. The Japanese remove the Rape of Nanjing from their textbooks, and the Korean women who were forced to be prostitutes during war have never been formally apologized to. Don't act as if China is the only country who has done this. It's not easy to apologize on a national level, and if you ask me, at the moment, they have many more things to deal with. Like their food problem. And China itself does not want to harm Hong Kong, since they view Hong Kong as part of them. So I'm sure they're trying to fix their own food issues and medical issues so that the Mainlanders don't have to go to Hong Kong to make things difficult for the Hong Kong people.

Hi everyone!! I'm from Hong Kong and I'm curios that if people in the UK know what's the difference between Hong Kong and Mainland China. Also, do you guys know why most of the HK people hate the Mainlander?

Hi everyone!! I'm from Hong Kong and I'm curios that if people in the UK know what's the difference between Hong Kong and Mainland China. Also, do you guys know why most of the HK people hate the Mainlander?

Yes, most of us are well aware of recent history there.

My personal view is that it is a great shame we were too weak to retain you as an overseas territory or whatever you were regarded as.

The yank says no no no to empires. and broke it. unlucky

Dont know and dont want to know. What happens in Hong Kong stays in hong kong. Dont spread your **** around.

oh btw. you all can tell them chinese to piss off if you hate them. just dont forget to tell them to leave their money behind.