I'm currently living in Hong Kong, been there for almost three years, and I am fortunate to have become very good friends with many great Hong Kong people, I've also had the opportunity to go the mainland a bunch of times. I don't want to dive into the politics/controversies of this topic, but all I want to say is that Hong Kong people have developed their own culture and identity which is quite distinct from the mainland (I guess mostly due to the outside influence during the British colonial era), and they are concerned that their identity and culture which is so important to them will gradually be erased in the coming years, basically they feel like Hong Kong might lose its "soul" in the future. By the way, I don't think that they deny that they are Chinese (many of them has family in the mainland actually), but they don't want their cultural identity and specificities (for instance, their language) to disappear over the years. Anyway, those are just my two cents as a foreigner living in Hong Kong. You raise many good points and it's interesting to clearly hear about this issue from a mainland Chinese perspective. Also, this is great learning material as always, so thank you.

我是香港永居民的法国人，你的分析很正确很细密。香港贫富悬殊很大，越来越深。不过大陆也是，中国是亿万富翁最多的国家。很多人觉得这个老旧破的，乱七八糟的地方，给我们怀旧感，好像在一个老香港电影里扮演。我自己喜欢这个对比度：新/旧，国际化/传统的气氛，大城市的高楼大厦/农村的房子，山/海风景。不知道原因，可能是语言或者他们的身份感，跟他们相处不容易，香港人很难搞。😢

@dashumandarin

28 күн бұрын

珂丽，你的角度很有意思。作为一个生活在香港的永久居民，你的角度，对于大家更了解香港很有帮助。

@yannie1012

22 күн бұрын

香港永居澳洲人在此也有同感。可能跟根子疏離太久，祖先文化給清洗，存在感不多所以帶份不知那來的優越感來跟別人比較😓 去了外國更珍惜自己的種族文化才知道對內心的存在感多重要。

璨老师，感谢您对这一问题的复杂解释。

Thank you for your thoughts. I think this is a complex topic. I can’t say more about it, because I don’t know much about the situation, nor do I have deep insights 🙏🏻

说香港人不是特别认同自己是中国人是太简单的想法。 我认识每个香港人都认同他们中华民族的但有的香港人不认同共产党统治。 是政治立场的问题而不是包不包括中国的问题。

@dapaosong7354

23 күн бұрын

是这样的，共产党不被待见

@StratosFair

15 күн бұрын

exactly, thank you for pointing this out.

Hong Kong did have a unique position - a blend of good market access to China and being a city where businesses were able to trust the rule of law over whim of a leader. The obsession and eventual success of bring it into fold of CCP is akin to killing the goose that laid the golden egg - all to the benefit of Singapore. Hong Kong's strength has always been vibrancy, not the orderliness. Yes, it has some some delipidated neighbourhood because the city administrator did not have to power to bulldoze them away. But, to some, this added to the charm of the city. I remember with sadness the early days of 改革开放 when everyone (mainland Chinese, Hongkongers and Taiwanese alike) thrived and looked towards the future with hope and friendship. Over the last 10 years, this has all changed.

@noahpeng1689

15 күн бұрын

The CCP did not kill the goose that lay eggs in Hong Kong. It was the capitalists in Hong Kong who used the media to propagandize their hatred of China to divert social conflicts in Hong Kong.

大叔好！我要问一下，视频的讲话速度怎么样？它比日常说话速度明显漫吗？

@dashumandarin

24 күн бұрын

璨叔速度跟日常速度差不多，查叔和Ben叔慢一些

璨老师，您自己有个频道吗？我想订阅可是我找不到

@dashumandarin

20 күн бұрын

就在大叔主页就能看见呀，往下翻

Is it true that Hongkong citizens cannot vote for the UK king, queen and PM?

97年前后香港的经济状况是有好转的还是坏转的呢？😮

@dashumandarin

21 күн бұрын

它的经济没那么好不是因为回归了，而是因为它的位置没那么重要了。香港的发展是因为时代的红利。

@adindanatassa

21 күн бұрын

目前香港港口的集装箱吨量排在中国其他的城市港口的后面了，如深圳啊青岛啊宁波啊等。我没记错的话，它是排在第6名的。

Firstly HK's GDP per Capita is four times the one of China. Secondly the gap between rich and poor is both in HK and China much higher than in the most countries of the "capitalist west". Hongkongs unequality is just slightly higher than Chinas. If we would just compare Hongkong to Shanghai (with all its rich people but also all the poor service workers, etc) the inequality might be around the same. And in addition to that Hongkongers have / had some sort of freedom in contrast to mainland China. What is the problem with them not wanting to be part of China? Why does a country like China which has 1.5 billion people want to have Hongkong and taiwan with a combined population of around Shanghai back so badly?...

@_k1mjke

24 күн бұрын

Потому что никакая большая страна не будет терпеть у себя под боком политического противника. Ни Китай, ни США. Удел маленьких государств либо стать частью большого, либо быть под покровительством кого-то большого. Независимость Гонконга, Макао, Лихтенштайна, Монако и прочих - это миф.

@simonr-vp4if

24 күн бұрын

It's because China, like all nations, needs a narrative to keep its country united. That narrative was once communism (shared values: we're all going to look after each other), and after that, it was exponential growth (shared values: we're all going to get rich together). Now that that narrative is failing, it's a classic pivot to nationalism : "shared values: we're all going to protect our shared Chinese heritage" That new narrative is not compatible with places like Taiwan and Hong Kong (and Xinjiang, while they're at it), so they will seek to "assimilate" them, by force if necessary.

@btlim4316

24 күн бұрын

To understand it, we have to define some terms: China, PRC and ROC. China is present day mainland, Taiwan, etc. PRC is the government controlling mainland. ROC is the government controlling Taiwan. The utmost priority on Taiwan is that it is part of China and it is. It does not need to be under the PRC. As for Hong Kong, well HK could have returned to ROC(Taiwan) in 97. Unfortunately, ROC never made much headway. The next question, why can't there be 2 Chinas, one under the PRC and one ROC? I think for that you need to ask ROC former president Chiang Kai Shek. When he retreated to Taiwan, he called on the world not to recognize the PRC and there is only 1 China. He probably thought once the USA had taken North Korea that he would launch a simultaneous attack from the south from Taiwan and the Americans from the North and he would be returning to Beijing. That did not happen and now both sides just following his prescribed medicine. There is only 1 China.

@jac_wie1132

23 күн бұрын

@@btlim4316 yeah sure that's all true. But still I find it weird that China is so obsessed with Hongkong and Taiwan. I mean it's far more than 100 years ago that Mainland ruled over Taiwan. If we would want to restore the boundaries and historical borders of Europe from that time we would start WW3 probably... But I gues in fact the problem is that the PRC can't accept a democratic country so close to it's borders. Also China has problem with nearly of it's neighbors so with Taiwan it's just a little worse...

@btlim4316

23 күн бұрын

@@jac_wie1132 Taiwan is already part of China. No wars need to be fought over this. In one interpretation, the capital of China is in Taipei. Its president is Tsai Ingwen. The country is called Republic of China.

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