I love how this put a spotlight on the differences between Hong Kong and China. In most western television, Hong Kong is often described as one with China. I also liked how they asked local about what is hong konger's identity and how we feel about the mainland china people.

@jibberjabberman

10 жыл бұрын

i think they feel different

@Amidat

5 жыл бұрын

who is "we"??? You descend from mainland China... how did you miss that? Or did you think it all was invented on Hong Kong?

I love Hong Kong. Been there several times. It's a diverse and exciting place.

Very nice! I've been uploading a lot of my Hong Kong adventures recently and I agree with the sentiment; HK is an awesome place to live.

A great peace of work. Excellent production and perfectly directed. This video gives a very crystal peak into the culture and places in Hong Kong. Keep up the good work. And indeed this place is a great place to be.

Awesome Film!

Best Skyline/City in the world.

@curt0571

6 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Moraes /and most polluted.

@juggaajerry

5 жыл бұрын

@@curt0571 most polluted? Definitely not, but could be improved

@wildearth3992

5 жыл бұрын

C C Los Angeles or Dallas are more polluted than Hong Kong.

at 19.33: "how you give it is important but how you receive it is also important." that's what she said.

@GriegoLatino

5 жыл бұрын

Please do inform me on which minute of the video playing there is referennce to HSBC headquarters building ...

It is a weird feeling to grow up in an international place and watch it change. I was born in Dubai way before all the tall buildings, back when there were a few hundred thousand people. The hard part is all the new people there who call it home and have their own opinions on the place, while you sorta just fade in to the darkness with only a memory of times past.

@dudedudovsky3217

10 жыл бұрын

How many years did it take for Dubai to go from a little village in the desert to a gigantic modern city?

@aviefern

10 жыл бұрын

DudeDudovsky Well, it used to be a smugglers hub earlier on, mostly focused on trade to India. They built a port and encouraged free trade to grow the city. In the late 80s and early 90s they realized that the oil would run out and they had to reinvent the economy. So, they started building the Burj al Arab in 1994, which was completed in 1999. Since then they've been pouring money into new attractions and encouraging laissez-faire business policies. They have very good business incentives which attract global firms, plus there is little government oversight. The city did suffer with massive debt after the last global economic crisis, but they got a bailout from Abu Dhabi, who is still heavily reliant on oil. Now, since the recent Arab Spring a few years ago...lots of rich Arabs have moved their money to Dubai, so the economy is picking up again.

@dudedudovsky3217

10 жыл бұрын

Avron Fernandes So you are saying that Dubai became Dubai in the last 25-30 years?

@aviefern

10 жыл бұрын

DudeDudovsky Pretty much. Here's a comparison pic of Dubai in 1980 and 2003. Taken from the same point with the same view. cl.jroo.me/z3/-/B/G/d/a.aaa-Difference-between-Dubai-in-.jpg It's changed a lot since 2003, but I can't find a comparison pic of the same view.

@dudedudovsky3217

10 жыл бұрын

Avron Fernandes Nice. But, what I find weird is that you keep building skyscrapers while you have so much space in the desert.

the professeur is actually Kevin Bacon the Actor from "Footloose " movie !!!

Nice documentary. That white professor had a Chinese accent, my god!

I'm sorry, but hearing that guy (who mind you looks like a Chef I met in Beijing) open his mouth and perfect French come out is just surreal. --- It's like when I found out that Top Gear wasn't kidding when Clarkson joked that Germans couldn't say "squirrel."

@ClaudKaKeiYeung

6 жыл бұрын

Yet it is strange to think why he's speaking French in an English speaking show... while he can speak English perfectly: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIxhmLSlhJDafaQ.html

@ClaudKaKeiYeung

6 жыл бұрын

Ah I get it... Heidi is from Quebec!

The border of Kowloon is wrong here, according to the Treaty of Nanjing. The Kowloon was ceased as a peninsula, known as the Kowloon Peninsula or the Old Kowloon. South to the Harbour, West to the Stone Cutters Island, East to Kowloon Walled City and North to a boundary, now known as Boundary Street. After the lease of New Territories, the government decide to develop it. Some of the places are merged into Kowloon, as the video shows and most of the map shows nowadays, this Kowloon is known as the New Kowloon.

Just skip 15:00 - 27:00, this docu. is good.

4:39 Is that a shark?

I can't believe this is a discovery channel production, very bland doco for such an awesome place - HK

10:09 Woow, Even in a remote place like Hong Kong, Heidi Hollinger is able to find people talking in French. lol

@hatsuharuboi

10 жыл бұрын

Everywhere you go you find someone talking in your language if your native language is one of most spoken of the world... once a friend of mine was in the middle of nowhere in siberia and found a portuguese speaking person... I'm Brazilian by the way.

@dudedudovsky3217

10 жыл бұрын

Hatsuharu Sohma I guess that guy had a little walk across Eurasia lol.

I'm sorry but the part on exchange of business cards seems to be Japanese rather than HK's culture.

@Soyosan22

10 жыл бұрын

It is also Korean culture. This comes from Confucianism - you have to give and accept things by using both of your hands to show respect.

@Amidat

5 жыл бұрын

@@Soyosan22 And Confucianism of course is Chinese

that's what happening.

we don't have citizens in HK, we only have permanent residents. everyone who legally lives in HK for 7 years can apply for it.

@mohamedawcali3202

6 жыл бұрын

TheSokwokwai 🍹💤💤💤

L.A. feng shui… laid back but Denny and his feng shi master are totally OCD... crazy cracks already forming under the Fu You House of yellow and red hot Chinese mustard paste sesame chili oil

This city is truly the NYC of the east.

@georgewu5

6 жыл бұрын

I was born in Hong Kong and live in NYC for 62 years. George Wu, ARCHITECT, AIA, NCARB

this is the 3rd documentary im watching from her, the hosts' personality is way too boring for me

1:05 You won't find it more exciting when the city has become completely non-British, like the other cities in China. REF: Many are considering immigration to Anglophone world, and I'm one among them.

@Amidat

5 жыл бұрын

Bye

In addition to my last comment - the politics are so silly. For the girl and boyfriend to refer to China being a different country and basically foreign makes no sense. For the girl to say "oh they speak Mandarin and we speak Cantonese" shows how silly people can be. Where does Cantonese language and cuisine come from??? Where does the martial arts and feng shui come from??? Where does the zen buddismh and all the superstitions come from? All of those things originated on mainland China. It's sad that people are that duped by foreigners to see themselves as separate.

The journo is totally correct, 2047 has come almost 30 years too early, the hand of Peking is everywhere, hence the troubles of 2019, when these die down, HK will be one country, one system, another mainland city, loss of its USP.

A white man with a Chinese accent. I can now rest in peace.

@dudedudovsky3217

10 жыл бұрын

lool The minster of tourism in Haiti (Stephanie Villedrouin) is of French decent and she speaks with an Haitian accent. It's really funny

@jyw0000

10 жыл бұрын

how bout the Asian guy who grew up in a black neighborhood in Johannesburg and talks with a Xhosa accent...

@dudedudovsky3217

10 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Y Wu Do you have a link?

@jyw0000

10 жыл бұрын

wasn't on youtube, I ran into him at and airport

@Arahansannihilation

10 жыл бұрын

You haven't heard a black buy with Chinese accent yet.

This show is very correct about what hk people think. They are correct about how the hk people are nervous about the handover. I truly wish hk stays as it was when the British took over. Unlike other shows they explain hk in great detail from china. I do not hate Chinese forigners, but some are very rude and don't follow the rules. They are very annoying and spit in the street. The bad ones ruin it for the good forigners which are trying to get along with us.

@dudedudovsky3217

10 жыл бұрын

So you don't feel Chinese?

@danc.3768

9 жыл бұрын

Naw

@Amidat

5 жыл бұрын

"I truly wish hk stays as it was when the British took over"... You do realize the British looked down on your ancestors right?

john cena

an don't forget , the democratic movement , as Bejing wont

I agreed. It is boring !