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Old 08-14-2019, 03:44 PM   #79
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HK people have held a lot of biases against mainlanders, and many still do. It can definitely be nasty and unfair. The same is also true of many people from Guangdong in how they have viewed Chinese from the interior who have moved south, referring to them as barbarians. There's no shortage of hostile discrimination going around. In Shanghai I joke with my wife, in a tongue in cheek way, about countryside people in Shanghai, because there is truth to it. People have learned different habits and some people are pretty much stepping off of farms into cosmopolitan environments with all kinds of expectations they've never encountered before. Some people are just self-centered jackasses who behave as though they've just stepped off a farm even though they ought to know better. It's a part of the world that has experienced centuries-worth of growth in a few decades, so of course there are some pretty different ideas about what's appropriate.

I would say though, that there is a much greater appetite for learning cultural knowledge from around the world in China than you would find in most places. Chinese people frequently place a very high value on cultural learning and are willing to adapt as they learn the 'right' way to do things in different places, then often bringing that learning into practice in their own lives in China. People in China are often hungry for advancement and learning to be sophisticated. There's just a lot of variation in where people are at on this journey.
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