Original Post
priapus

12-8-2015 05:25


With all due respect...

Most HK locals (perhaps you are one as well) came from families who "just happened"
to be near the Pearl River Delta when the British arrived.

Graced by the light of Western civ, and protected from the depredations of Mao, HK
Chinese prospered while their mainland brethren regressed.  What you perceive to be
rudeness is a direct product of your Western upbringing.  I am not sure your
grandparents would label someone "a beast" if he didn't give up his seat to a
pregnant lady.  Mind you, they also lived in a world without such Western niceties as
Disneyland.

There's a thing called noblesse oblige, and perhaps one would be wise to exercise it now
during this transitional decade for the mainland.

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Alwaysfuun 12-8-2015 09:34 Acceptance +4 I have to side with Priapus on this. I try to remember I am a working guest in Hong Kong. I hear the locals trash the he ...


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