Hong Kong people feel low levels of affinity towards mainland Chinese people and China’s central government, compared to their sentiments regarding other cross-strait “regions.” They also have a more favorable view of Taiwanese people, and people from Macau, than they do of people from mainland China and even from Hong Kong itself.
According to survey results released on Tuesday by the University of Hong Kong’s Public Opinion Programme (POP), Hong Kong people feel least positive of all about China’s central government.
The net values of Hongkongers’ feelings about themselves, mainland Chinese, Taiwanese and people from Macau, were, respectively, positive 35 percentage points, positive 4, positive 56 and positive 40.
People were also asked about their feelings towards the various cross-strait governments. The net values were positive 10 percentage points vis a vis the HKSAR government and negative 3 percentage points for the Chinese government. The governments of Taiwan and Macau scored positive 2 and positive 19 percentage points, respectively.
Meanwhile, among ten regions and countries that local people mostly mentioned positively, Hong Kong people liked the Singaporean and Canadian governments the most.
In other findings, the net value of Hong Kong people’s affinity towards the government of the United States dropped from negative 16 percentage points to negative 35 percentage points, its lowest point since 1997, when the first such survey was undertaken.
The university interviewed 800 people last month.
So Hongkongers are a class higher than the crude,crass, uncouth and loud mainlanders, and should be looked down. Looks like it is morally right for Hongkongers to treat those mainlanders with contempt.
If true, it just shows than HK people are losers. Initially when under the British, they have no guts to ask for "democracy", happily settled for whoever White Person appointed as goveror. With China still poor, they look down upon mainland Chinese, calling them uncouth, uneducated, un-whatever. Some of them still do. But now that Chinese from mainland no longer poor, they blame them for buying up everything, including milk powder and real estate.
Now they like to blame mainland Chinese for the ridiculously expensive real estate that few can afford. But guess what, HK real estate has always been unaffordable for most HKers. Even 30 years ago, when Malaysians go visit HK relatives, they are shocked by the tiny apartments HKers live in, and would privately call those apartments "pidgeon apartments" (apartment for pidgeons) !
If HKers really want affordable housing, how about this: Have the mainland government confiscate all current unbuilt lands, just like they did in China 6 decades ago, build 100s of 1000s of cheap units within a few short years, and voila, affordable housing for many. Yes, then go ahead and you can blame the mainland governent for that!
The survey finding should not be a surprise given Hong Kong people’s prejudice against the mainland Chinese and government. When China was less affluent, HongKongers look down on their mainland cousins. Now that China is wealthier and stronger, Hong Kongers are jealous, demonizing them.
I have a mainland friend who was a business development manager for a foreign company in Hong Kong. Her Hong Kong subordinates complained to the general manager that it is beneath them to work under a mainlander.