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Originally Posted by chemgear
Having been there a few times in the last decade just as a tourist, it's been going down hill. It's not "terrible" but people living there are getting fed up with the literal swarms of people from the mainland coming over every day.
They're the ones pushing around luggage on the crowded streets smashing into people without regard. Not to mention the public urination and defecation during the day. Forget console wars, the internet is lit up with people in Hong Kong and mainland China facing off about public defecation versus shaming people doing it (googling "Hong Kong defecation" links the to the poopshow  ).
They've even had a huge issue with people smuggling things like baby formula out of Hong Kong. At times you can't even find it in Hong Kong because there are some many people still scared about the fake and lethal varieties on the mainland. |
I don't disagree with a lot of this, but at the same time, you also have Hong Kong people who have this sense of superiority over Mainland Chinese, and it's annoying to witness. In my experience, Hong Kong people are just as rude and uncaring as Mainlanders. Plus, I guess it's still cosher to make fun of other races in their TV shows (ie. stereotypes against Filipinos and Indians in particular come to mind).