A lot of the "we love the British" sentiment is a way of saying "f*** you". I kind of know that this is the point because I saw something wearing a T-shirt with a British colonial flag and "F*** the CCP"
People know that stuff like that makes Beijing angry so it's a way of making them angry. If the British were in charge, then people that wanted to say "f*** you" would be waving PRC flags and carrying quotes from Chairman Mao just to annoy/scare the government, which is pretty much what HK people did in the 1960's.
I think even the people who do that sort of thing realize that it's dangerous to take it too far. "Bring back the British" just annoys/scares Beijing, but no one takes it seriously. If Beijing really started to take it seriously or if it started to be a serious movement, then I think everyone in HK realizes that it would be, really, really bad.
In the mid-1960's, there were a lot of people in HK who were trying to annoy the British by waving red flags and quote from Chairman Mao, and talking about driving out the British and restoring HK to the motherland. All of that stopped rather abruptly after 1967 when people realized that doing that might actually in fact overthrow the British government in Hong Kong, and no one really wanted that especially (oddly enough) Beijing.
Read other answers by Joseph Wang on Quora:
- Is it true that it is hard for a Chinese man to find a wife if he does not own a property in Chinese society?
- Is it legal for China's former richest man, Li Hejun, to buy and short his own company Hanergy on the same day and Hanergy crash 47% 2 days later?
- Question That Contains Assumptions: How do Hong Kongers differ in their view for Westerners and Chinese?
from Quora http://ift.tt/2fblFEN
No comments:
Post a Comment