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Name-calling feud escalates between Hong Kong and mainland China
Insults swirl as Hong Kong residents say mainland tourists bring bad manners and women on the verge of childbirth into the territory, and mainlanders accuse their neighbors of snobbery.
By Jonathan Kaiman and Barbara Demick Los Angeles Times
February 4, 2012
Reporting from Hong Kong and Beijing
At first glance, the newspaper ad depicting an enormous locust looking over the Hong Kong skyline seems like a plug for a horror movie.
In fact, it's the latest slap in the face to the millions of mainland Chinese tourists who flood Hong Kong each year, bringing with them what many in the territory see as less-than-refined social habits in addition to their bulging wallets.
Mainland tourists stand accused of littering, spitting, urinating in public, smoking cigarettes in inappropriate places and other breaches of etiquette that offend the more fastidious sensibilities of many Hong Kong natives.
Echoing anti-immigration sentiments often heard in the United States, some in Hong Kong also complain of mainland women giving birth in Hong Kong, an action that guarantees the newborns the right of permanent residency.
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-hong-kong-locust-20120204,0,1702902.story
By Jonathan Kaiman and Barbara Demick Los Angeles Times
February 4, 2012
Reporting from Hong Kong and Beijing
At first glance, the newspaper ad depicting an enormous locust looking over the Hong Kong skyline seems like a plug for a horror movie.
In fact, it's the latest slap in the face to the millions of mainland Chinese tourists who flood Hong Kong each year, bringing with them what many in the territory see as less-than-refined social habits in addition to their bulging wallets.
Mainland tourists stand accused of littering, spitting, urinating in public, smoking cigarettes in inappropriate places and other breaches of etiquette that offend the more fastidious sensibilities of many Hong Kong natives.
Echoing anti-immigration sentiments often heard in the United States, some in Hong Kong also complain of mainland women giving birth in Hong Kong, an action that guarantees the newborns the right of permanent residency.
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-hong-kong-locust-20120204,0,1702902.story
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Name-calling feud escalates between Hong Kong and mainland China (Original Post)
ellisonz
Feb 2012
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It appears, and I may be jumping to conclusions here, that they don't like each other... nt
Xipe Totec
Feb 2012
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Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)1. It appears, and I may be jumping to conclusions here, that they don't like each other... nt
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)2. No they don't...
Very clearly the People's Republic of China should bow down to the superior social habits of Hong Kong.
Lasher
(27,534 posts)4. China has 33 province divisions.
I suppose there must be some additional animosity among them.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)3. Check out this bridge to Hong Kong to China
Hong Kong drives on the left side of the road, mainland China on the right. So how do you prevent crashes when driving between them?
http://www.fastcompany.com/1660258/traffic-report-how-to-switch-to-the-other-side-of-the-road-without-causing-a-70-car-pileup