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The racism was certainly an eye opener here when we arrived, that was 8 months before the protests but it was still a thing. Mainlanders are branded “uneducated, ill mannered, spitting, urinating in public, smoking anywhere and rude”, basically everything brits consider the French to be but without the beret, onions and striped top.
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I live in the mainland and unfortunately there is some truth to that. Many many brilliant things about many many people in the mainland but it's not a stretch to call swathes of the population uneducated, and I see all those behaviours on a daily basis. Calling people locusts is too much though.
I'm in HK very briefly right now, happy lunar new year, 新年快樂，恭喜發財！
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By "I'll mannered" you mean with the manners of a Ramsaye? Seems a bit harsh
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rhowe
Happy lunar new year LFGSS!
Here in Singapore arrival checks are common practice, first case(s) admitted but otherwise business as usual. They’re definitely a panicky bunch but then again I wasn’t here during SARS. Fingers crossed it’ll all blow over very quickly.
HK economy sounds messed up enough as it is, a SARS like pandemic is the last thing they need.
The only thing I’ll add to the conversation is that the obvious racism towards the mainland Chinese is heading towards a whole new level atm - all ethnicities chipping in too. It almost makes Nigel Farage sound like mother Theresa.