Hong Kong provides a sort of comfort to Western society, a place where, in the face of increasingly credible challenges to hundreds of years of unchecked dominance, Westerners can still have their superiority complex validated in the image of yellow people willingly speaking their language, believing their religion, singing their songs, using their laws, wearing their wigs, and waving their flags. Any change to that is an unimaginable evil and a moral affront.
What is shocking is how many Western people I know who are nice and rational people, but once the word China is spoken, become angry tape recorders spewing hate. This is proof nationalistic religious-style racist education in Western society is dangerous to both Westerners and the world.
You see, Chinese and Western reactions are completely predictable, none better than the other.
What is shocking is how many Western people I know who are nice and rational people, but once the word China is spoken, become angry tape recorders spewing hate. This is proof nationalistic religious-style racist education in Western society is dangerous to both Westerners and the world.
You see, Chinese and Western reactions are completely predictable, none better than the other.