Trouble Down South: Why Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Aren’t Getting Along

The traditional distance between Hong Kong Chinese and their mainland counterparts was thrown into sharp relief recently, after two widely seen videos dramatized the cultural gulf that still exist between the two sides nearly 15 years after Hong Kong’s reunification with China. In one, a cell phone video disseminated on social network sites and Hong Kong TV news, arguments erupt between Hong Kong and mainland Chinese after a local man tries to stop a mainland girl from eating in a Hong Kong subway carriage. The other is a response from a nationalist academic, Beijing University professor Kong Qingdong, couched in language so virulent that at least one version was removed from YouTube for violating the site’s policy on “hate speech.” The professor says “Some Hong Kong people don’t see themselves as Chinese … They are bastards,” before adding “These people are too used to being running dogs for British imperialists.”


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