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?

StirShitStick

i concur!
i would tell them i came from hk before it became china.
i would also emphasize that i had a BNO, have a british passport and have citizenship.
i would tell them i read/write only in traditional chinese and speak honger cantonese.
and then, i would tell them i dont squat while taking a ****, i dont spit every where, i dont dress like my wardrobe was from the early 90's, i dont believe in communism, i dont sympathize with china,  and i dont speak mandarin because i cant but it's because i dont want to, add your own, etc

notgoddy

Hong Kong culture was "mixed-culture" now it's just dominated by Modern China's culture. It's inevitable.

Canada is sort "mixed-culture" too, and there is a super dominate culture yet.

celeron_266

lets just say...we are getting old...

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.

Littleprince

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﹐也許全中國人的也一樣。。。如果中國自強﹐我們也得光榮﹐而且回歸是既定事實﹐懷勉過去光彩﹐自怨自哎都於事無補﹐不如 MOVE ON。

我的朋友也是一樣﹐說我從 HK 來﹐他們會說﹐即是中國啦﹐我就會說﹐係呀﹐即係中國囉﹐而家無分別啦﹐呵呵。。。

Ovaltine

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.

Ovaltine

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.

jake123

im young, so i don't know a lot of stuffs, but wt was so special about hk other than the ego revolving around "we are democratic/westernized" (which the rest of china has been experiencing and will be becoming)?