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Would you consider Hong Kong part of the Anglosphere?
Much like nations such as, my country of, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada, United States of America, and of course, the United Kingdom.
Hong Kong does have a British flair to it.
4 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
Having constantly traveled to that part of the world and doing business there, I'd say yes.
HK's been under British influence for over 160 years, longer than Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Not only are government, judiciary and socially British systems, HK people's ways and mentalities (the REAL ones, not claimed and fakes) of doings things, conducting businesses, fundamental core values towards liberty, human rights and freedoms are of "Anglosphere".
One simple thing that differentiates HK People from Mainlanlanders, the former will be very upset if someone cuts into the queue while Mainlanders think what's the big deal.
It's kind of sensitive at the moment to have HK joined the Commonwealth when CCP/Mainlanders still lack confidence and capabilities in the world's arena, all due to CCP's stupidity in carrying out her policies. When one day China becomes a more normal country and HK's CEO elected by universal suffrage, HK would join the others to become a member of the Commonwealth, as the systems are all similar, HK should have closer economic and cultural ties with Australia, New Zealand and the whole lot.
EDIT
CCP is a whole bunch of greedy, ruthless gangsters who do things totally out of their private pockets greed.
Similar to Tibetans and Xinjiangers, Hongkongers are increasingly fed up with the loads of ruthless, ill-mannered and greedy Mainlanders deliberately dumped onto HK by CCP, disrupting peace and cultures there.
Since 1997 HK merging with China, CCP has already dumped 900,000 ruthless and poor Mainland immigrants to HK, many required to pay bribes to CCP officials to immigrate to HK. These people are lazy, uneducated, bad mannerism, don't follow cultures and traditions of HK, and expect HK taxpayers to hand them all the free benefits. Whenever there're disputes between HK and CCP, these Mainlanders would come out to support the corrupted regime. We have one good example on Yahoo Answer, CCP the Lap Dog.
The displease of Hongkongers towards CCP/Mainlanders purposedly diluting HK's cultures and traditions is expressed as follows by bloggers there,
一聽到"中港融合"就扯火。大陸不斷輸入造假文化、沒公德心文化、送禮文化,
選舉舞弊文化、污染香港。
一些獻媚的香港人為做政協人大,
斷送香港幾代人辛苦建立的廉政、
法治、言論自由。
"中港融合"根本是溶掉香港。
Ruthless, greedy, corrupted and abusive Mainlanders should all be expelled out of the city permanently!
HK's CEO must be selected by ALL real Hongkongers in 2017 to prevent ruthless, corrupted CCP/Mainlanders from further abusing the place.
Another HK blogger,
henry • 18分前舉報
魯平: 沒有大陸,香港一定完蛋!
市民: 因為大陸,香港更快完蛋!
香港徹底被大陸摧毀,玩X完.. 五毛狗死全家!
- longliveabcdefgLv 78 years ago
Before 1997 when the Hong Kong Govenor and many government administrators were British and the only legal language was English, there was an Anglosphere flair to a certain extent. But since the handover to China after the city has been "Chinanized" inside and out, I can't think of any reason why Hong Kong should be considered part of the Anglosphere, even though we can tell the British were there once.
- sailor8Lv 78 years ago
I have never been to Hong Kong so my thoughts would be a quess at the best. What I thought was more like what Freely says, if a nation or people took over a place as nothing and then developed it over the next 160 years it would have to be the flair of their homes. It would have similar government and probably every thing the British thought about life from the beginning to the present. The buildings, the businesses, the way everything was run would be directed by the British. Everything would have a Asian influence but it would be directed in the way it performed by the British. It is a trading center built by the British to support the trading and growth of Britain and by being this I would think it would be very British. Kinda like India was and the US was both were founded to be supportive of the British, they just kinda slid off on some other direction. Maybe the CCP hopes Hong Kong will slide off in their direction but as of now I would think with the way they elect their officials it is still more British than Chinese or Asian. Now the population may be more Asian than anything but that still would not make the way it operates Asian. It would make it operate by Asians but in the manner of the British. But then like I said this is a guess becau8se I have never been there.
Source(s): AG - Lim YuanLv 68 years ago
No, I would say that Hong Kong of influenced by the Anglosphere but it was never part of it