Hong Kong People, where have our culture gone? culture, Kong, Hong, People, gone

Ovaltine

Catopop is gone, disintegrated. The Cinema of Hong Kong is lost, with exception to Johnny To. The mass media of Hong Kong have become National Enquirer.  What happened to the culture of Hong Kong? Was it ever here? Or are we just a bunch of copy cats? When Hong Kong was the British colony, thousands flocks to come see the glory of the east meeting west. What have all that turned to now? It sucks when I talk to my Honger friends, there is nothing about Hong Kong I could really talk about. I have to turn to Black Media. I think as Hong Kong people, we lost most of our identity through the handover of China. In our next generation, most likely we would be assimilated to the Chinese culture with out any distintive traits to be known.

People often ask me where I come from, and I tell them Hong Kong. They try to correct me and say "It's China now" I get offended by this, but what can I do?

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原帖由 cola14 於 2007-12-5 12:08 發表
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 collectivi ...

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 freedom, I adapted quite well.

I recently been thinking about  collectivistic culture vs individualistic, I think HK is leaning towards the collectivistic side despite colonial influences. Pop music and mass media is a great example. Face it Hongers have no individuality, just look at the BAPE wears and the same hairstyles...

As of China, there is no culture at all after the cultural revolution. Most of the culture is borrowed from HK, Japan and Taiwan. They will need time to build back the glory of Chinese arts, and it wouldn't happen in our generation.

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原帖由 Littleprince 於 2007-12-5 12:22 發表
香港不嬲無乜所謂 CULTURE﹐不過 80年代的歌曲同電影的確有過一下子的火花﹐卻並不能成氣候或所謂文化。

同意力哥所言﹐中國是我們的祖國﹐不應覺得回歸有何羞恥﹐而香港人轉數快﹐或說比其他地區的人醒目﹐是環境造成﹐若干年後﹐也 ...

I don't think the Handover is a shame at all, but I don't feel like I can connect with the Hong Kong culture today, or any Communist China influence, because I didn't grow up in that environment.  Not that British government was great, but the Hong Kong people at that time are admired like gods in Greek mythology during that time.  It's a shame that our ship is going down as China reaches it's golden age.

Ovaltine

I was playing in Coq Casino, in the poker room. Three chinese guys, the rest are persian or white people. We had a little discussion of our identity. This old guy, winning lost of money, said he from HK. The Persians asked curiously about the difference between Chinese and Hong Kong. Another Cantonese, clearly a working class losing poker player said there was no difference. He said "We are all Chinese, Han, I don't see the difference." From that point on, I realize, the Hong Kong culture is part of a Chinese diaspora. We were a culture maybe 10 years ago, but for sure 10-20 years, this culture will be gone. We are like those rich Cubans in Miami, assimilated into the Capitalist American culture, but they still Cuban now.  Dream on my friends, at least we were once elite.

Ovaltine

Coming back to this topic after a couple years, things have probably changed a lot. I have learned some from Sociology also. All this "copycat" is called globalization.  Eventually HK people will be assimilated into the PRC, our existence will be limited to our dialect like the minorities of Taishan, Hakka etcetc

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Good read, fishbelly!

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