Do Japanese people know there's a difference between Hong Kong and China?

hahah i'm from Canada too and i speak Cantonese.

but yeah there are a lot of different people in this world and some are more aware than others. i think you should forgive them for not having that knowledge. :)

from a tourist's pov, it's easier to get around Hong Kong as being a former British colony, street names and maps are in English and Chinese. However, if you want to see more traditional Chinese stuff (ie. architecture, culture, history, food...) then Mainland China would be better. Because it's been "closed" to outside world for the longest time, a lot of the traditional Chinese stuff are preserved.

The older Japanese will probably understand about the differences, but the younger generation really have no idea that HK was seperated from China politically and in to some extent slightly diverged from mainland culturally. Even in ancient times and before the revolution, Canton and HK was considered far removed from mainstream China.

But why would that matter to you?

In Hong Kong, they speak Cantonese.

In Taiwan and Peking, they speak mandarin.

In Japan, Agnes Chan from Hong Kong and OuYang FeiFei from Taiwan talked in English at Japanese TV show. Japanese performers wonderd why they did not talk each other in Chinese.

That was a surprising matter to the viewers like me.

Any educated person over 14 or so knows that, and a lot of people have been to both Hong Kong and China. Japan is of course also an Asian country, and the media here has a lot of coverage about China, Hong Kong, the Koreas, and so on--much more so than the Canadian media, actually.

Most people do of course, even if they can't point it out on a map. That's got nothing to do with this question, true or not.

It's like asking whether people in Britain know that there's a difference between Canada and the US. Of course we do, but we can't tell them apart at first glance or anything like that. They even sound very similar in speech, except of course for the French Canadians. But we certainly know the two countries are different.

Yeah, that difference between HK and China mainland seems to be that the HK people seem to be so arrogant that they think that the Japanese are so ignorant as to not know the difference between Hong Kong SAR, and mainland China.

You may be Chinese ethnically, but you're ignorant biologically.

Some Japanese do and some do not as well as Americans do and do not. What's the matter with that? I think all Japanese are not knowing everything perfectly. It seems quite natural and reasonable. In addition, what's the definition about difference itself? Just using characters and dialects things like that?

Some people know. And some others do not.

In fact, "China" includes Shenzhen which is next to HK. When it comes to language, people from Shenzhen or Kwantong speak Cantonese. So there is not much difference, I think.

Most ppl do know it cos the politic and economic systems are different. But the area is Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of P.R.O.C.,中華人民共和國香港特別行政區. Threfore they think it is a part of P.R.O.C.

Today, I think younger Hong kong ppl are also thinking that their area is a part of Chinese culture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q3iDrc6uoE

二〇一〇 等你来，世界拥抱在上海。。。

Jackie and Andy are acting like mainland Chinese.

But Japanese also know that Jackie don't believe in mainland China.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBnvzp2B9xA&feature...

中國的會爆炸!!