cola14

interesting topic...
I am actually taking cultural psychology in school now. and we were talkin about individualistic versus collectivistic culture. Consider China is like the prototype of collectivistic culture and western countries are mainly individualistic, HK is actually a mix of both, where east meet west. I don't think we will lost this identity.
As a "Honger", I am proud to be Chinese but I am also proud that when I was born, HK was British owned. I think every country has its good side and its bad side lor. And China is big. Level of civilization, values, habits, standards, everything can be so different even within a province. I guess we can't just generalize.

cola14

原帖由 Ovaltine 於 2007-12-5 12:39 發表



Really? I am really interested in topics of Humanities. Unfortunately, I still haven't finished highschool, partly due to my slow adaptability to Western cultures. Well my laziness and the abuse of ...

I think maybe we have different definitions about "culture". I guess the culture that I am referring to include many things like values, emotions, motivations, morals, etc. Of course pop culture, media and fashion is a part of it but i don't think that is all of it.
And actually, I think that HK is leaning more and more towards individualistic culture just as it seems to be the trend in the world. For example, look at the increasing divorce rate. Not saying which is right and which is wrong but people are valuing less about social/group harmony and more concern about personal efficacy

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