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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!
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.