{"id":3571,"date":"2023-07-07T21:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T13:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yzzks.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/07\/%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e5%b0%86%e5%be%80%e4%bd%95%e5%a4%84%e5%8e%bb%ef%bc%9f-%e4%b8%80%e4%b8%aa%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e4%b8%ad%e4%ba%a7%e4%b9%8b%e5%ae%b6%e7%9a%84%e4%b8%80%e5%ae%b6%e4%b9%8b%e8%a8%80\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T13:24:23","slug":"%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e5%b0%86%e5%be%80%e4%bd%95%e5%a4%84%e5%8e%bb%ef%bc%9f-%e4%b8%80%e4%b8%aa%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e4%b8%ad%e4%ba%a7%e4%b9%8b%e5%ae%b6%e7%9a%84%e4%b8%80%e5%ae%b6%e4%b9%8b%e8%a8%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yzzks.com\/en\/asian-review\/3571\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Hong Kong headed? One family's view from a middle-class family in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOur generation of Hong Kong people is the luckiest. Catching Hong Kong at its best. I85<\/span>Started working in the year, and worked then until2000<\/span>In the past few years, Hong Kong has been the center of Asia, and also the landing point and transit hub for Europe and the United States in Asia. As a result of my work, I had traveled to more than a dozen countries, generally speaking English, and had seen a lot of things. At that time, Hong Kong was completely internationalized. The Pearl of the Orient was very open.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t2000<\/span>Since the beginning of the year, the role of Hong Kong has changed. The Asian headquarters of many multinational companies moved to Singapore. Hong Kong became just the business center of Greater China. Hong Kong people began to speak less and less English and more and more Chinese. Many Hong Kong people went to the mainland. Like Alibaba's Tsai Chongxin, Tencent's Liu Kiping, Yu Binghan in the entertainment industry.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWhy this shift in role. It has something to do with Singapore's own competitiveness. It also has something to do with the return of Hong Kong to the Mainland, and it has something to do with the rise of the Mainland's own economy. In short, Hong Kong has an impossible-to-avoid relationship with this vast motherland that borders it. This is the fate of Hong Kong. It is the fate of this small island. Singapore, which largely replaced Hong Kong as the center of Asia, was an authoritarian state and arguably a family-run company. This is something that may help open the eyes of Hong Kong people today.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBy now.2015<\/span>year, the role of Hong Kong has changed once again. Hong Kong is just Hong Kong. With Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen on the Mainland, Greater China's need for Hong Kong and Hong Kong people has greatly diminished. ZHANG Wuchang said that Hong Kong's slide is a natural result of China's reform and opening up. When I was young and went to the Mainland, the bosses in Europe and the United States spoke to me first, and I would then go and speak to the mainlanders. Now they just speak to the mainlanders directly. Hong Kong people do not only have fewer opportunities to speak English, they also have fewer opportunities to speak Putonghua, and it is enough for them to speak good Cantonese.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMy generation had seen the world. The young people of Hong Kong today have only seen Hong Kong. Our generation was nurtured and trained to be pragmatic and tolerant. Today's young generation is born with pride and narrow-mindedness. This is determined by our respective experiences and the general environment. Today's young people have only seen Hong Kong, and they are like frogs in a well, thinking that the sky above their heads is what the whole world looks like, thinking that the concepts in their minds are the truth of the world. They do not understand, but they think they do. This is one of the reasons why Hong Kong today cannot move forward.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tI have been in the Mainland for 10 years and I am now used to using Pinyin to output simplified Chinese characters. Some Hong Kong people are not used to it and they complain to me, \"Why can't you use traditional Chinese characters. I have also gotten used to speaking some Cantonese from Guangdong, and some Hong Kong people will remind me that you should say it like this in order to speak Cantonese in Hong Kong. If we go backward20<\/span>years, there should not be such a problem. As a Hong Kong citizen, you should be able to do everything, everything, English can be Chinese as well, Traditional Chinese can be Simplified Chinese as well, and you can say this and that. Only then can you do business with so many countries in Asia. Today's Hong Kong people are not tolerant. Tolerance and openness are no longer their survival instincts.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t20<\/span>Years ago, one Apple Daily began to rise to prominence. It used the verbal language that the general public was used to and used colorful pictures in a novel format, and it quickly became popular. This media reported on the Mainland only the bad things, not the progress. The young people of Hong Kong were greatly influenced by it. The Mainland in their minds has been distorted from the very beginning and is not comprehensive. I agree with many people that the Apple Daily may have its special background and purpose. It is also carried out in Taiwan.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the launch of the Individual Visit Scheme on the Mainland, a large number of mainlanders have come to Hong Kong for sightseeing, and many of them are accustomed to not queuing up, spitting and even urinating, speaking loudly and sweeping up goods until they are all gone. What the young people of Hong Kong see are the bad things about mainlanders. This exacerbates the negative view of the Mainland already influenced by the media in their minds and breeds emotions. Once these emotions are combined, consciously or unconsciously, with the labels of freedom and order, they can hardly be separated. In fact, mainland tourists have basically covered the whole world - Tokyo, New York, Sydney, Vancouver - with their lack of queuing, spitting, loud talking and sweeping of goods, and it seems that only in Hong Kong have they nourished social movement-type emotions.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWeChat is available in Hong Kong300<\/span>more than 10 million users, accounting for nearly half of Hong Kong's resident population.40<\/span>The majority of people are over the age of one. Many young people just don't use WeChat because it's something from the mainland. They have crossed the demarcation point from being only against the bad to being all against it, and they are no longer rational. Some young people say they are Hong Kong people, not Chinese.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe economy has declined in recent years. I get together with my old classmates, and except for those in the financial and medical sectors who are still doing okay, most of them are not in a very good position, and many of them keep jumping from job to job, which is very unstable. Young people feel even more pressure. This invariably makes those emotions grow with each passing day. It shows their irrationality, rejecting what is almost the only opportunity as a danger.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe urgent need for Hong Kong to make moves to change its situation is clear to all. However, the current political atmosphere in Hong Kong is also changing at the same time. During the time of the British Hong Kong Administration, the Legislative Council was still more in tune with the Government's proposals and actions, and the atmosphere was peaceful. But now, the Legislative Council always sings a counter-argument, and what the Government wants to do can never be passed. The pan-democrats do not want the incumbent Chief Executive to have any achievements, and they want to defeat him even at the expense of the people's livelihood. They always have all sorts of reasons which can easily be embraced by those who are already in the mood, especially the young people. To a very large extent, they are opposing for the sake of opposition. If things go on like this, Hong Kong will not be able to do anything and will become more and more distant from others. Those who will suffer most will be these young people. They do not know what they are doing.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are two kinds of advocacy in Hong Kong today. One is dominated by the young. One is for those of us who are relatively older. Occupy China is what young people do. The older people do not support this approach. The business mainstream that I have spoken to does not support it. So their actions did not last. After Occupy China, the Mainland announced the establishment of four free trade zones, and Hong Kong's window function was further weakened. In the past, Hong Kong had a role to play as a model to the world, but now that China is getting stronger and stronger and will play the Belt and Road game, Hong Kong has even lost most of its model function. A very senior friend, who has been working in the Mainland for many years, said that if Hong Kong continues to go on like this, there is really no way out.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWe also try to help young people open their eyes, go out and get their feet wet about the real world. But they think they know it very well. When the Government and some organizations suggested that young people in Hong Kong should be allowed to go to the Mainland for a few weeks of military training or exchange activities during the summer vacation, they reacted strongly, saying that this was brainwashing. Suggesting that there should be national education in schools, they say this is brainwashing. The mindset stereotype is hard to be broken. There is an obvious lack of confidence and vulnerability within them.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tYoung people in Hong Kong are spoiled because they have never experienced real poverty. It is suffering that makes people grow up and make them understand the real side of this world from the bottom of their bones. They think that the present order and prosperity in Hong Kong come naturally, that bread falls from the sky, and they do not know the changes and hardships involved in the process of going from nothing to something. They are the \"second generation of the rich\", as the mainlanders call them.80<\/span>There's an old Hong Kong lyric from the era that goes, \"Who's going to cherish, when you still have it.\" This is human nature. They have been to many places for fun since they were young, such as the United States, Japan and Europe, and they take for granted the order and prosperity they see, but they do not know the hardship and ugliness behind it, nor do they know the horrors of Africa and the Middle East.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMainland entrepreneurs, Ren Zhengfei and Ma Huateng, talk about \"shades of gray\", which is not found in the young people of Hong Kong. Shades of gray is not only a management thing, but also a basic thinking thing of a person. Shades of gray are opposite to order, but both are reasonable and coexist. Young people in Hong Kong only recognize order, not shades of grey. Without shades of gray, there is no tolerance. A visit to Singapore and India and a comparison with Hong Kong and the Mainland will give you some idea of shades of grey. In this world, the richness and diversity of the forms of social organization and the living habits of the people are more than they can imagine. I am afraid that whether something is good or bad is still judged by whether it can sustainably ensure the stability and happiness of the people.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Hong Kong today, we only talk about politics and posturing, speaking crookedly not quite reasonably, and being narrow-minded and intolerant. Some media have described this as the era of the Red Guards. I think this is quite apt and represents a voice in Hong Kong society. They only care about a few concepts called ideals in their own minds, ignoring the interests of others and failing to listen to others' views.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSome of the shortcomings of the Mainland that the young people of Hong Kong detest, whether they are historical or present-day, yet many of them have appeared in themselves, but they do not know it. They themselves are naked, but they are laughing at others who are only wearing underwear with holes in them. Isn't that marvelous?\n<\/p>\n

\n\t<\/a>How Hong Kong should come out of its predicament, I do not know. Whether Hong Kong has reached the worst point and whether it will bounce back next, I do not know either. But I think the older, mainstream group has long realized the problem and is willing to see change and support it. This is a group of people with an open and rich experience who are pragmatic and sober.\n<\/p>\n

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