I am from Hong Kong, born and raised, but right now I am in the United States for college. I have always been interested in knowing how foreigners think about Hong Kong. So to you guys, is Hong Kong just another place in China for you? Or is it somehow cooler than China, or something?

cant say i know much about hong kong despite having a friend who came from there. wasnt it one of those special economic zones set up in china by deng xiaoping to facilitate for foreign direct investment back in the 70s? i heard its a fairly industrialised city.

Now this is a story all about how
Hong Kong got flipped, turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there
And tell you how the OP became the prince of Bel-Air.

OP is from Hong Kong, born and raised
Playing mahjong is how he spends most of his days
...

You were all thinking it. Admit it.

>>2 WHAT

>>1

There were a few Westerners who were pretty upset when it was turned over to the P.R.C., then again, I don't think Britain could have managed to defend it and Hong Kong didn't really need to be a war zone, so I guess it's all for the best.

Hong Kong has pretty much led the rest of China by its example, so at least there's that. As far as opinions go, it was briefly the only place in the P.R.C. worth visiting (aside from like The Great Wall), the rest being a drab communist holdover from the 1970s. Now that China is booming, though, Shanghai and even Beijing are becoming trendy, so HK has kind of lost its edge. It's thought of as the high-end China, a place for people into food, film, and shopping.

Well, those of us who know the first thing about it, anyway.

> Or is it somehow cooler than China

I vote for Hong Kong being far cooler than China.

Having spent a few years living in dorms next to mainland Chinese I don't like them at all. Some of their habits are fucking repulsive.

None of the people I've met from Hong Kong are like this. Even my favorite girlfriend came from there.

I am chinaman

i think Hong Kong is pig disgusting

DOWN WITH CAPITALISMS!!

Never should have given the place back to China. Not for our sakes, not for Hong Kong's sakes, not for China's profit.

>>5
Please provide a list of their repulsive habits that I may use to dehumanise them.

>>8

1. spitting on any open space like there's no tomorrow
2. cutting queue like theres no one in front and still dare to argue as if they are right
3. eating and talking loudly at the same time with rice going all over the place
4. majority dont bathe in the morning, smell like shit and totally dont give a shit
5. like to pick up a fight whenever they are drunk (and whenever they talk about taiwan or any sensitive issue)
6. infiltrating all other countries and bringing with them their disgusting habits

hey i'm not saying all of you! just those uneducated rude country bumpkins that piss me off all the time

>>8
Since you asked, these are things I've seen regularly:

1. Spitting in the kitchen sink. I'm not washing my veggies anywhere near a sink a bunch of people have been spitting into.
2. Not cleaning up after urinating on the toilet seat. Apparently the girls did this too, so they had to install (manufactured, so it's common) signs explaining that you don't stand on the toilet seat. They still do it, and they still don't clean up after.
3. Coughing and sneezing without covering their mouths. It's nice when they come back from China and give you Beijing flu by doing this.
4. The guys do their business in the washroom. Then they spend two minutes making sure their short spiky hair is just right (it's short spiky hair...). Then they leave. Note that the washing of hands didn't occur.
5. They don't do their share of the work. They use the kitchen the most, since nobody else wants to go near it anymore, and they leave mountains of garbage in the bin. We're talking spilling out and across the floor here.
6. Likewise, they didn't properly throw away their own personal garbage, just leaving it in shopping bags outside the front door where the crows came and... it was a bunch of pretty sights. They finally started using the garbage compactor 20m away when some of us resorted to implied physical threats.

It doesn't help that they're a xenophobic and racist bunch. They avoid talking to us. Okay, maybe they're not fluent in English and they're shy, but then why do they actively avoid the Westernized Chinese here who are fluent in Mandarin too?

I used not to be like this. Ignorance is bliss.

I don't see Hong Kong as China. Don't know about others, but I always see Hong Kong as an extension of China. The better extension. And just as a FYI, you can really tell the Chinese people apart, whether they are from Hong Kong or the mainland China, by the way they dress. HK people definitely dress so much better.

I see HK as a tiny, irritating place full of arsehole taxi drivers between me and the train station out of there. It probably just reminds me too much of western cities

I asan, and don't know too much about Hong Kong except what my cantonese friends have told me, and what I learned when I lived next to a street with 3 dim sum restaurants, but I don't think it's the same as China. Also, I'm addicted to dim sum.

>>13
WEABOOO!!!!

hong kong is really dirty and crowded, the people are noisy,loud, obnoxious and rude, and most of them cant speak english at all.
At least in China, there's better landscape everywhere.

>>14
You should probably learn your internet slang before using it.

>>15
And HK folk don't treat foreigners like white gods. Mainland > HK.

I'm in Britain and I believe Hong Kong shouldn't have been given over to the PRC. The PRC has grown into a horrible monster that blocks information and enslaves their people. What's worse is that America is beginning to follow the PRC's example slowly but surely. I also do believe that Hong Kong is cooler than China.

>>18
PRC has always been a horrible info-blocking, people-enslaving monster.
People in HK strongly disliked Britain, too.

>>18
I kind of hope they do. If you spend any time living in china you'll learn that the citizens, in an odd way, have a lot more freedom than we do in the west (even if they're mostly too busy eating dirt to exploit that freedom) since their government spends so much more time on its evil schemes than actually worrying about what the people do too much. Our politicians on the other hand spend all their time thinking of ways to waste money on idiotic cola wars politics and methods of coddling us to death.

Your mileage may vary on that. But still, I'm often confused as to why people want to punish the chinese people so much just because they have a bad government. Why can't they have HK? Why can't they come visit the twenty first century with the rest of us? There's over a billion of them that aren't the head of the snake, and they mostly dislike the Party as much as the rest of us.

> I also do believe that Hong Kong is cooler than China.

Nah, HK is shit. The mainland is fun. Macao/Zhuhai are awesome if you want a SEZ to visit.

Hong Kong is filled with cool guys in long jackets shooting cool guns akimbo-style. Also sunglasses.

Mainland China has more kung-fu, but kung-fu isn't as cool as firearms and doesn't compute too well with sunglasses.

>>14
I prefer Yellowface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowface

Chinese people hate black people because in our culture black is associated with evil or bad luck!

>>23
Wait, I thought that only Caucasians hate black people?

>>24
Actually, blacks hate black people the most of all.

I read it somewhere, so it must be true.

>>25
No wonder Africa is still at war!

>>26

One day, they'll win that war against... Asia.

>>27
how?

>>25
you mean you heard it from chris rock