非常平等任務: Discrimination in Hong Kong (Cantonese) - PART 1 of 2

RTHK and YMCA segment on opening the eyes and broadening the minds of Hong Kong people about racism - PART 1

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[christpunchers]

Yes Hong Kong is very much a super modern city, it's even more multicultural than places like Japan. However the people of HK can be very backwards and simply don't understand that it is a PRIVILEGE that others have saw how great their city is and want to come over to visit, work, live their lives.

[ChuppahCrunch]

I still love Hong Kong, depsite all these flaws. I dont think white people are that discriminated in HK (maybe the grannies will wave their stick and say stuff about you but thats pretty much it). Even my friends (white) call themselves gweilo. Calling somebody a gweilo is hardly an insult nowadays. But discriminating against indians, blacks...etc is common around here unfortunately.

[ginsinsan]

That girl is Chinese!

[divaexpatriate]

I grew up in the States, but I can also speak Mandarin. In HK I am treated VERY differently depending on whether I speak English or Mandarin. Store clerks are insanely rude if I speak Mandarin. If I start speaking English, immediately they "fall into line" & become nervous. But at least the rudeness stops.

What's ironic is... these same store clerks get crapped on by white westerners who expect them to understand & speak English better than they do. They should know how bad it feels!

[darksideofthenation]

Hong Kong also discriminte gays and lesbians, and transsexuals, both legally and socially.

[MisterGoGo]

hey people. keep in mind that not all chinese people are jerks. even chinese people discriminate other chinese people.

[opgalaxy]

I was discriminated by a Hong-Kong person outside China and we both were minorities. The other person even called other Chinese from mainland to do a kind of mobbing, it was something very painful. I am still trying to understand what went on. In situations like this you can only stay cool and remember that you have nothing to do with that. I made up my mind that they just don't represent what Hong-Kong or China are, it's about bad and good minds, or home values. This happens everywhere.

[Traces1000]

@mlps93 That's because mainlander speak ching chong language when hk people speak proper human language

[liahma123]

reading all these comments, i guess everyone has seen discriminations are everywhere.whether it is racial discrimination, age discrimination OR discrimination among the people of the same ethnic group. .e.g .hong kong chinese doesn't like like mainland chinese.....IF ANYONE WISH NOT TO BE DISCRIMINATED....LEAVE !!!!!! WHY STAY IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE LOCAL PEOPLE DOESN'T LIKE YOU??THIS WORLD IS NOT A UTOPIA , NOTHING IS PERFECT, GO TO THE COUNTRY YOU THINK YOU ARE WELCOMED AND TREATED NICELY

[mlps93]

@Chinastar85

You Mainlander's are the dogs. Ignoring human rights and pretend that you never rolled over any students with thanks on June 4th, 1989. You censor everything that might be sensitive to your beloved Communist Party and yet your ignorant foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu ignorantly insists that China internet is "open" when it is ranked one of the lowest in the world. You should be ashamed for even promoting a country that is so arrogant.

[abcdefghijklmnop5538]

I'm from San Francisco but my mom is from HK and Guangzhou. I can understand Cantonese but when I speak, it is only semifluent but I mix english and cantonese too. I love it back there, the US just isn't for me.

我是美國人，住在三藩市，我的媽媽是香港及廣州出生。我聼廣東話­很好，我說還可以。 如果我想說中文，我說很多 "chinglish." 我想去香港讀書, 住在美國不太玩。

[mlps93]

Mainland dogs go to HK and all around the world ruining 華人 image.

They make foreigners think that HK-Macau, Taiwan, China ppl r all the same when we r in fact very different.

If Mainland dogs want to to holiday in HK, be polite and do no go around expecting everyone to treat you the same as back in your own place.