Frances Hui, a journalism student at Boston’s Emerson College wrote a column for her school’s newspaper the Berkeley Beacon in which she expressed her feelings about enforced an united Chinese identity which she didn’t feel to be part of. The article is quite short and ask for people to respect each other and discuss differences in a normal manner.
The glass hearted Chinese students at Emerson at once started to attack Frances and at once you saw how the whole comment section just got overpowered with mainland hatred. This just shows why other Chinese ethnic groups do not want to be classed as Chinese but to promote their own cultural background.
Kevin wrote:
You’re just a Chinese troll who literally do not understand why we must make a distinction. The fact you’d want us hongkongers submit to a Chinese identity none of us wished for says enough.
Fu Shuai wrote:
Brother, your picture is too ugly.
Your conscience wrote:
Why would you call him ugly? If you don’t like his comment you should just say that and not make cruel statements about his looks. Your comment is ugly.
William says:
That’s why we Hong Kongers are different from Chinese. They even didn’t respect our shared language to use simplified chinese.
Fu Shuai wrote:
Congratulations to the conscience brothers, I reminded me that Kevin had just found an avatar on the Internet. I didn’t expect that it was my opinion that I apologized for the damage that Kevin and his family had caused. I also promised that I would no longer be subjective in the future. The appearance of anyone is actually the size of the world, and the North and the South are in my eyes. The picture is a picture for you but it is a mirror. I am sorry about it.
Suzanna wrote:
I am afraid that for so many years you had resided in Hong Kong, you still fail to notice differences between Hong Kong and China. We, Hongkongers, grew up in a very different background and environment from Mainland Chinese. The society, education and culture in Hong Kong leads to some fundamental differences between Hongkongers and Mainland Chinese. To simply categories the reasons as ‘overt elitism’ or ‘misplaced nationalism’ is an oversimplification to the situation we are having now. I myself have talked to many Chinese as well, and I still feel that we have some differences in terms of culture and way of thinking. You, who do not identify yourself as a Hongkonger or a part of Hong Kong, can of course sit on the sidelines and say that if you were coming from Hong Kong, you would identify yourself as Chinese (but you aren’t born and raised in Hong Kong so what’s your point?). May I remind you (and anyone commenting under the article) that one’s identity are not simply based on one’s ethnicity or nationality, but more about how people perceive themselves and where they are emotionally attached to. For me, if you ask me what my ethnicity is, I will say I am Chinese. But if you ask me where I come from, I will say I come from Hong Kong, without a doubt. My root, culture and history are all coming from the land of Hong Kong, not China.
Kelvin Tan wrote:
Where is Hong Kong? In China right? That makes you Chinese
The same way your parents , grandparents and great grandparents were Chinese
Passing Thoughts wrote:
Leaving a comment solely due to the annoying use of “our own language” in the comments as some grand, distinct difference. Dude, you “HKers” speak Cantonese, a CHINESE DIALECT spoken in and named after a Chinese province … it is no different from Shanghainese or any of the other dialects spoken in many other Chinese cities and provinces – you are NOT that special!
One of the main issues is of course the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has been seen to misinform it’s citizens and paint other thinkers as evil spawns that has to be destroyed no matter what the cost. We can see the statement that Cantonese would be a dialect of Chinese, in truth Chinese is only a written language which has two branches, Traditional Chinese which is use in most countries which uses Chinese characters and then Simplified Chinese which is used only in Peoples Republic of China (PRC). Cantonese is one of many languages talked in China (both RoC and PRC), in mainland China they promote Mandarin. Both Cantonese and Mandarin has a number of dialects. For a Cantonese speaker understanding Mandarin is as easy as for a Spanish speaker to understand Russian.
This kind of behavior has been seen in many cases where someone gives their opinion about Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Tibet, Shinnyaka, and the islands in the South Chinese sea. Also in those cases where Chinese tourists has been misbehaving and then putting up videos claiming that they have been badly treated only for they are Chinese, for example the Chinese family who started to camp in the Hotel lobby in Sweden.
One thing that commonly comes up in these attacks against non-mainland Chinese is the notion of that the opinion they have is illegal, this is kind of hilarious as they way CPC took power can be labeled as illegal. It’s time to all glass hearted Chinese (those of you who got offended of the post or Frances Hui’s) and start to think why people don’t like you, could it be just that your manners are so bad and has nothing to do with that you are illegal not part of RoC.