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The anti-decolonial tendancies from certain Hong Kongers is not much more than this:
Needless to say this may not go down well but it may be satisfying.
Absolutely spot on.
I lived in HK for 6 months so im familiar with the type.
People native to hk tend to either be like cool with communism and pro China and also not a reactoid, or this kind of lady which is basically someone who was cool with the apartheid and segregation and is vocally super racist against anyone who isn't white.
Lot of people don't know this about Hong Kong, that it used to have basically an apartheid system under which British colonizers were subject to completely different laws than the Chinese population, and even had their own exclusive parts of the city where no Chinese were allowed to live.
Also the biggest irony of the so-called "pro-democracy" demonstrators in Hong Kong who were waving all those British flags is that there was no democracy under British rule. The British just appointed the colonial governor who ruled with an iron fist. There is more democracy now in HK than there was for 99% of the colonial era.
When there were anti-British protests in the 1960s in HK, the British colonial authorities just gunned down dozens of people. Compare that to the much more violent and much more extensive HK riots a few years ago when the police didn't kill a single person.
I know they are a small minority but how any ethnically Chinese Hong Kongers can still be simping for the colonial era is something I will never understand.
Yeah when she was done moaning about being in the same subway carriage as someone she perceived to be Muslim (like lets be honest, they where just clearly SE asian im not sure how she could tell) she immediately started talking about how much she hated 'mainlanders' lol.
I did manage to get in some bits about how I really liked Mao and Deng though and how nicer Shenzhen is relative to HK lol....
The amazing part, to me, is that these two halves manage to get along just fine in everyday life and work. There's obvious tension when the topics come up, but until you float that tension you can't really tell one from the other (unless they own an EV, in which case it's Tesla vs all the mainland brands and that indicator hasn't failed me yet).