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| China slams survey that shows rising Hong Kong resentment |
| 2012-01-14 |
| This poll apparently has the Party's hereditary aristocracy in a tizzy. I guess the beatings will have to continue until morale improves. The identity issue poll, carried out late last month by the University of Hong Kong, revealed a growing resentment towards the mainland. Only 16.6 per cent of people living in the former British colony identified themselves first as Chinese citizens. That's the lowest level during the 15 years since the special administrative zone of seven million was returned to China in 1997 in a blaze of patriotic fervour. Instead, more and more Hong Kongers are declaring themselves first and foremost as a Hong Kong citizens or Hong Kong Chinese citizens -- a clear rejection of the shared bond Beijing has attempted to build between the city and the mainland. |
| Posted by:Zhang Fei |
| #8 My wife told me a relative was voted as an award for her hard work by her working collegues, to go to college even though she had been working at a factory. To this day she is still illiterate; can't read or write Chinese. |
| Posted by: badanov 2012-01-14 14:14 |
| #7 After all, they look different and most of them probably don't speak Chinese well, or at all. Much simpler grammar and vocabulary, Barbara. Or so I was told by a Taiwanese friend who engaged to teach me proper Mandarin, and laughed out loud at her first look inside Mao's Little Red Book, which Mr. Wife had brought back from his first trip over there. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-01-14 13:54 |
| #6 The bottom line is that Beijing has long had a policy that Shanghai will become the "New Hong Kong", and that Hong Kong proper will wither away. Needless to say, the people of Hong Kong are not too cool about this. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-14 11:09 |
| #5 I'd offer to trade them their illegals for our illegals. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-01-14 09:50 |
| #4 "[Taiwan's] major problem is right now that almost one third of their current population in Taiwan are illegals from China who overstayed visits.... sort of like Mexican "tourists" to the USA." They could deport the illegals if they really wanted to, WM. After all, they look different and most of them probably don't speak Chinese well, or at all. Oh, wait.... ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-01-14 09:36 |
| #3 What nobody cares? The Central Committee cares. China historically goes through a cycle of multi-states to consolidation to breakup. The thought of regionalism over centralization puts chills in them. The previous collapses usually featured extensive corruption in the central administration as a prelude to events. The omens are not good as they stand upon a worldwide economic precipice they helped create by currency manipulation [refusing to allow their currency to gradually float in a free market]. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-01-14 09:29 |
| #2 Redneck Jim... you know Taiwan is watching that like a hawk and using the data as a background in their dealings with the ChiComs... Their major problem is right now that almost one third of their current population in Taiwan are illegals from China who overstayed visits.... sort of like Mexican "tourists" to the USA. It has made an unknown demographic change... |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-01-14 08:21 |
| #1 Give a shit in 5,4,3,2,What nobody cares? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2012-01-14 05:14 |