3. IDENTITY CRISIS OF HONG KONG PEOPLE HM
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1. Over 90% of the young people in Hong Kong regarded the National Day holiday as just an ordinary holiday, according to a survey conducted by youth organization Breakthrough.
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2. Only 5% of the students interviewed said they planned to celebrate National Day.
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3. The survey has also found that fewer than one-fifth of youngsters consider themselves Chinese.
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4. More than half said they would tell others they were "Hongkongers".
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5. Almost 9% would identify themselves as Chinese, but only with the clarification that they are from Hong Kong.
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6. The rest simply do not care about their identity.
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7. The result revealed an identity problem Hong Kong Chinese have long had.
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8. Colonial rule once made Hong Kong people British citizens, but we were not even granted the right to enter, let along reside, in the United Kingdom.
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9. Despite the 150 years of British rule and English education, most of us have adopted a traditional Chinese way of living.
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10. Yet, when we are now encouraged to work and live in the mainland, few of us are willing to do so.
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11. When attempts are made to mingle us with mainlanders, we will protest strongly by saying we are different, we are from Hong Kong.
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12. Some would even feel uncomfortable if they are called "compatriots" when they travel to mainland.
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13. Six years after Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the identity crisis of Hong Kong people, particularly the youth, does not seem to have changed much.
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14. Obviously, many of us still put our Hong Kong identity before our Chinese identity.
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15. The colonial rule is to blame for the identity problem.
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16. Nationalism was not nurtured under the colonial education.
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17. Meanwhile, Hong Kong and the mainland have developed along very different paths.
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18. Capitalist Hong Kong and communist China have had little interaction for the past five decades.
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19. Worse still, Hong Kong people have developed a love-hate relationship with the mainland.
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20. Many young people are inclined to see the relationship between Hong Kong and mainland as competitive.
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21. There is mounting anxiety that Hong Kong would be threatened by mainland's rapid development.
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22. The government should foster national feelings through civil education.
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23. They should drive home the message that Hong Kong is now part of the motherland and that people in Hong Kong are Chinese.
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24. Hong Kong Chinese's complete integration into the motherland will be a long and gradual process.
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25. I believe once China emerge as a strong and influential world power, Hong Kong people will take pride in their Chinese identity.
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GLOSSARY - IDENTITY CRISIS OF HONG KONG PEOPLE

breakthrough }

capitalist ꥻDq

clarification M

colonial rule ޥaΪv

communist @Dq

compatriots P

love-hate relationship SRS몺Y

mingle with MKVb@_

National Day y

nurture i

take pride in ޥHa
