I grew up in Hong Kong and that’s how people treat me in shops and restaurants as well. Yes the waitress will yell at you if you are taking your time in a cha Chan teng, the point is they will get the food ready as fast as possibilities, not to stand there with you, have a nice little chat and go through the menu with you. Decide what you want before calling them over. They are also used to yelling with each other if they don’t have an intercom system. I had a big cultural shock when the chasier asked me how was my day when I first came to Australia. In Hong Kong they will just start grabbing your stuff, scanning and bagging them in lightening speed before saying “thanks bye”. Hong Kong is a face paced city and no one has time for pleasantries.
@@heydonlam5936 There's been waves of mainland immigration in the last 30 years so not everyone in HK has a colonial childhood with English taught at school/etc.
dude if you spoke english and then switched to mandarin mid interaction thats not gonna work, shoulda just gone up and straight up start speaking beijing dialect with the curled tongue and shit for best results
They are impatient and it can be mistaken as rudeness. Korean culture also very fast paced so is japanese (as with HK) but I find koreans to be warmer (if that makes any sense) they can be impatient but their warmth shines through their impatience while HK people lack that "warmth" no offence but they just seem distant, cold and hard to approach compared to most asian nations.
Koreans have a very strong hierarchy thing going. Sure, they're polite to strangers, but if they're higher up in this hierarchy they can be pretty nasty.
I am Korean, but I strongly agree with you. That lunatic hierarchy system must disappear in Korea for good. Thanks for pointing it out. We Koreans need to realize what is right and what is not.
i am a local and i get treated like shit here as well. i don't think this will ever change, people are always so tense and so impatient, because life is very difficult here. there's no way out really, i don't suggest hk as a travel destination to any of my friends.
@@Zeddddy it's not a terrible place to live here. Besides from the stress you get from extra lessons, loads of homework and high expectations, it's great!
@@hywei5171 I'm from HK and I think the gov currently is quite good. The main problems are with property prices and most people and satisfied with the government. I don't think the rude people are associated with the government tho.
Ive been to Hong Kong twice already, but i must say that some HonG Kong people are rude. Customer service is almost negative to me. i tried going to Australia dairy company, people who works there has zero english , people were rude and will just yell at you, even at mcdonalds. very different from japanese and taiwanese people where it is also a fast phase country, but they would try their best to help you even they cant speak english!
well i dont know how to speak mandarin, only english, and we were talking to them in english, even the teenager who was working at a mcdonalds was even rude, oh well i guess thats a norm in hk. i prefer filipinos and indians working in hk, they are very kind if u need help
Sweet Asian I think it's just that most Hong Kong people do not like interacting with strangers, and yes I think it's extremely rude too. Think about it, being greeted in Hong Kong is so rare.
When I'm in Hong Kong, I try using English and Mandarin, and I've found most people in the service industry speak Mandarin. Sometimes I also try out my beginning-level Cantonese. In all cases, I've found people to be mostly polite, but as in most places, people tend to be rude if they're really busy or in a hurry.
Haha I think Hong Kong is just a very fast paced environment so people tend to lose patience fast. Next time I'm in Hong Kong will make sure to pick up a few Cantonese phrases 😁
I think they all hust sound rude. It just seems to be a cantonese thing. Theyre a fast paced society and just talk to fast. And their accents dont help either. They sound rude but it doesn't necessarily mean they are.
ArmyCats they aren't impatient , can't u see how many people are in that restaurant. In hk u will never get a table by yourself, most people are like sharing with a stranger on a table. In hk , it's such a small country with over 7 million people, buildings are more than 70 story high. They need to keep the business running quick and fast to make money. U don't live there , u don't know it's culture so you can't just judge by this video.
Cathy Fung ive had many mainland Chinese friends.. And many ones who spoke cantonese most who were from hk. And i am not basing this on a single person, but i am speaking from my personal experience. They ARE impatient and very fast spoken. And can come off as being very rude or disrespectful. But they may not want to be seen that way thats just how they are. Fast paced people from face paced society. According to your theory, Koreans and the Japanese should also be rude and disrespectful then? But no they're still polite and try to be polite because they care about what others think of them. Its a cultural thing too. Thats just how they are
That's because they are really busy. If you know a language they speak often, they get you over and done with, if you speak a foreign language, they struggle, so they speak differently. They don't speaking rudely though, the language just sounds rude to you but it isn't
@@madelaluz8482 they aren't hypocritical, Chinese and Cantonese just sounds loud and rude but it isn't, if you understood the language then maybe you would understand why they sound rude to you. Stop making accusations based on what little information you know.
I was in hongkong and talking to the waitress in english. She was polite at first. Then i started talking to my mom in mandarin, and she just started to give us looks and threw menu on the table and left, and didnt come back for order until we called another waiter.
i went to hong kong once last year. the thing i noticed is, if they know you are from mainland. they somehow treat you more rudely. no offence, i am a singaporean. But this is what i experience and see with my own eyes there. because of this issue, i dont dare to speak chinese as i am afraid of being discriminated there. gladfully i learn abit of cantonese.
Unfortunately it is true. I am from Beijing and I travel to Hong Kong sometimes, I can always tell that they are fed up with people who speak Mandarin with a mainland accent for no reason . But at the same time, i also have good hong kong friends from my American University who are nice and open minded. I really wish this HK-Mainland problem can diminish eventually. It is a shame for all Chinese ethnicity afterall.
Michelle Wmx I'm a Singaporean too, I guess they are able to differentiate the accent of our mandarin, plus most Singaporean speaks broken Chinese~~~ 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Michelle Wmx not just mainlander, you can feel that hongkong people worships westerner(European white) a lot at the same times they despise Asian including themselves badly.
Wy123 nope I don't think they worship westerners. More like they are inclusive of other nationalities, hence a lot of fusion foods. You can't generalize saying they all like westerners. Seeing as they suffered from the west and looked down on for hundreds of years.
I'm from Singapore and I was shocked when I went to Hong Kong, even when I speak english politely, their service is still meh.. It really sucks especially since I went to Taiwan right after my Hong Kong trip, Taiwan's service is extremely good. I mean Hong Kong has some gentle nice cultured people who are polite when I ask for some directions but in general I say I'll be happy if the service staff ignores me. Perhaps if you spoke in a taiwan accent it might be better, beats me.
It's an interesting video, but I think it is hard to conclude much. I think HK people are busy and have an abrupt style of communication. They probably don't consider it rude, just efficient. However there are some that go beyond abrupt to extremely rude (doesn't matter what language you speak). I went places by myself and spoke English (some people were friendly, some abrupt and disinterested and yes some rude and unhelpful). Later I went places with some HK friends who spoke Cantonese with staff, pretty much the experience was the same as before when I spoke English. I don't know about Mandarin, but there are a lot of Mandarin speakers in HK now (not just tourists and traders), due to large scale immigration from mainland China. Some people have the perception that speaking English gives you better treatment but I don't think so. I think knowing Mandarin is an advantage simply because many staff understand it better and it makes their job easier.
Some I agree with you and now there's more and more mainstream coming in and out living in Hong Kong mixed Mainland/Hong Kong you don't really know who is who's rude rudely trader's /tourist or your in the wrong places 🤔I won't talk to u because am in a hurry or I dont understand u and there a reason for everything why people are like that .
I speak Mandarin, i don't speak a lot of Cantonese. But I do speak English. It's pretty much the same, some people are patient, some are rude. But i guess if you are white people, that's different. Their reaction is different if you are white or non-white.
Lived in hk for 4 months or so. I spoke English to avoid being perceived as a mainlander, but it's hard to find great services unless u are paying for hkd200+ meals. Personally I have no desire to visit the place again unless I have to. You could go to tokyo and experience a lot more for less money.
Will Chien but i went to tokyo and kyoto for a month i experience some rude attitude because they see me as a gaijin although i speak politely in Japanese. Idk maybe depends on people character and some of them will give racist attitude towards you even you nice to them to ask.
Will Chien I agree if you go to high end places you won't experience their rudeness. I've been to HK twice and haven't tried street food or any ordinary restaurants . But if you stayed in five star hotels and high end restaurants you'll be treated nicely.
to be honest, hk people arent being rude only to tourists. We could be pretty rude to locals as well. I think there is some hidden social rules like being fast and be aware of your surrounding, trying not to obstruct others. That's the rule to survive here. Mainlanders got rude response frequently not just because of the political conflict between hk and china. It is because they didn't realize the situation in hk is totally different from that in china and they didn't adapt the social rules in hk. (I was more than surprise when i realized there are tons of chinese that didn't realize how different hk people are. They don't even know we have different judicial system, tv channels, educational system....etc.) As for english, i would say people who worked in restaurants, shops,etc are actually a bit scared of speaking in english. They would be more comfortable with mandarin due to increase of mainland tourists over the past decade. Not to mention a certain portion of them came from mainland china.
That's an interesting point. I think you might be right. Maybe tourists who don't realize this hits some "bad spots" in social manners and get bad treatments.
I read many commenters using fast paced of life as an excuse. A person being rude is not a matter of how fast paced their society is. It is a reflection of their cultural upbringing or the lack of it. Though I suspect the reasons for their rudeness and frustrations were the results of STRESS living in those inhumanely build TINY apartments. People are unable to LITERALLY relax at home to release tension!
@@Missiloveafrica The city may be superficially beautiful on the outside but it is what’s WITHIN that holds REAL value. No point being beautiful on the outside but the majority of citizens and their children are living like rats packed inside tiny apartments or WORST, can’t even afford a decent home after a lifetime of work…
So true. I thought HK will be more polite but they are still a bit rude and cold. It is their way of life, but I am sure they have improved over the years. I have met a few nice people though. Still it won't stop me from going back to HK.
@@AO-iv6yr yo, just because Cantonese sounds loud doesn't mean it's rude. You're making a very offensive accusation about the people here. It's just that the locals are used to speaking loudly, that's just how the people are. The language is also only understandable through clear pronunciation, please have some respect to them
@@Joey-un3hy not true, people further from Hk island have older traditions. They speak Cantonese loudly, people in Hk island only speak softly and less loud than the other is because of people like you complaining about how rude they sound, if you understood what they were saying, maybe you wouldn't hurt their feelings for no reason
I'm work before in Hongkong for 11 years and all I know mostly hongkong people's are not rude. I guess because they are language Cantonese is more loud then Mandarin. Mandarin is smoother
A vast majority of HKers are losers. They wear their misery on their faces. They hate their job, and their favorite activity is to hang up the phone on their customers. REAL FACTS. Don't give me this shit that I attracted this rudeness to myself. Thank God I do almost all my business online now
That's ridiculous! How can you describe HK people as losers when they built one of the world's greatest cities with very little help from China. They are lively, hard-working, enthusiastic, quick-witted people and worthy of respect from outsiders. Their version of Cantonese is a vigorous, expressive, cheerful local dialect which works for them and is worth learning if you're planning to stay for a couple of years. I loved the years I lived and worked in Hong Kong. What I miss most is the people and their noisy conversation. They are very special to me.
Bouncybon this breed of hongkonger you speak about no longer exists, or has emigrated. The hongkonger today is either the whine-all-day type yearning for the glory days under the brits, or the backstabbing type who would betray their parents/best friends for some small benefit
That sounds horrible. OK I'm a Brit and the HK I knew was very favourable to us. (Although I was not on the famous "expat terms".) We even shared the same sense of humour as the locals. I still have a few HK friends who 'look me up' in London, because the Chinese can be very loyal. (It's different with Japanese people who will drop you when it's inconvenient.) I can see how the "dream" is missing now. There was always the real possibility of making a huge financial success and many did. Maybe that looks more remote now.
When my grandpa's younger brother worked under the table at luk kwok gloucester fifty years ago, within twelve months the owner became good friends with him, took him to Sweden to manage his hotel holdings there, and BOOM! Three years later he was a multi millionaire. These days, you could work until you were 80, 90 as a temp worker at a five-star and no-one would even notice you
what it boils down to is this hong kong is very very fast paced and most of the time the ppl are just simply maxxed out,,and they simply don't have time to deal with bullshit,one of the things you'll notice especially in restaurants and fast food joints,they just wanna take your order swiftly then get you your food ,you gotta understand rent is EXTREMELY high there so they need a constant flow of ppl,then you come along speaking english ,then turn and speak perfect chinese,i mean thats just simply taking the piss,am i wrong??
This is nonsense. Hong Kongers are the slowest walking people on earth. They got all the time in the world to just walk around and do shopping. They're not busy by any standards. Go work in America if you want to see what being truly busy with work looks like. Being fast paced is an illusion created by the high populaton density in HK. Hong Kongers are also among the rudest people I've come across. They lack compassion and have child-like manners.
+Vertie HKers walk fast..you obviously know shit about HK and thought the truckloads of mainland chinese tourists who has time to go shopping in your tourist districts are local HKers, dumb as fuck....America is a land of slow moving, lazy ass, overweight, every other day is a sick day, I need a break every 5 minute low productivity country compare to the East...stop living in your dream..you're probably living in the 1950s..those days are gone, buddy
They are moody but that does not mean they're bad. Ever got attacked there? do you feel safe there? these are the fundamental questions. You can face and experience the nicest people in the world but their intensions are not always good:)
the truth hurts. if you're local Eric, you understand my comment is true. it's ok to let the world know hk people are alot like American's. we're proud of who we are and the world has to accept it.
I think it all depends on who you ask ?? Most Hkers understand mandarin 'cos it's part of their second tongue language other than english !!! Everybody that went to school in Hong Kong must take and a mandarin language course somehow, but if you're chinese and can't speak cantonese then they kind'a wonder if you're from the mainland or from a foreign country??? They have biased for mainlanders 'cos they are rude and 好霸地!!!!
Growing up in Hong Kong, the locals are actually nice people, especially the younger generation, since we have better education that practices languages and respect. I see young people giving their seats to elderly on mtr on my way to school daily; I see a lady who picked up my lost mtr card and returned it to me; I see a taxi driver offered to send me to school for free when I was late and rushing in the rain. There are many little things that make me proud of being born in here. On the other hand, some older generations or people who come from mainland to work in HK, have lower English level (some not all), so they are more comfortable with speaking in Chinese, and hence might be seen as more snobbish to foreigners. Like some have commented, HK people are surviving rather than living, and their "happiness" rate and economic status are also quite low in comparison with the past due to political events. This has become a factor that makes HK people seem "rude" because we are sad and stressed. Talking fast has become a habit of ours as it is a kind of "city syndrome(?)", but all in all we are nice on the inside.
Clariza Cran, I don't think so. I always learn a bit of the language when I travel, even it's just simple as good morning and how are you. People are always happy to hear naive language. It shows that you're trying to learn their culture.
Mate, it's like you going to France and speak English to a Frenchman, ofc they're gonna be less nice as opposed to when you speak French (their language) with them.
i speaked Chinese at a worker in mcdonalds in HK, requesting that i needed a cup of water (which was free), she gave a a dirty look and said "NO more la" Then my friend(who was british) asked, the worker smiled and gave a a cup of water.
This is a very interesting theory that I've tried and tested for myself. I'm from Singapore and I've been to Hong Kong for more than 30 times over the course of the past decade or so. Since many Singaporeans like myself are ethnically Chinese and bilingual (in English and Mandarin Chinese), I've definitely been faced with some subtle discrimination (al beit rarely) when I spoke Mandarin Chinese (many middle-aged or slightly older HKers will immediately assume you're from China just because you speak Mandarin Chinese & based off your appearance) as opposed to English. Of course many people in Hong Kong are more fluent in Mandarin Chinese than in English and you get things done wayyy faster, but the best is to speak Cantonese (if you can) and attempt to pass off as being local.
By the way based on your Mandarin Chinese accent, I think you are from Taiwan?? Like most other Singaporeans my Chinese dialect is 閩南語 or what you call in Taiwan 台語 (it's almost the same dialect), so I can't speak Cantonese either. Hahah I definitely had an easier time in Taiwan though because Taiwanese people tend to switch between Mandarin Chinese and 台語 quite often. At times I really felt sort of "at home" in Taiwan because everyone around me was speaking in a dialect that is also commonly used in Singapore and also one that I could actually understand.
I'm Hmong-American and speak Mandarin fluently. I've travelled to HK several times in the last 10 years and I can totally tell you I get better treatment when I speak English vs. Mandarin. My Cantonese isn't great but I can get by understand some of it and can say a few words here and there if I need to. My wife is from Chongqing and last time we went to HK together, I told her to speak English with the sales staff at the mall and she said she got treated better. Now the question is, can the HK locals distinguish native English speakers.
Been to hong kong last year and saw with my own eyes how a person in front of me speaks Mandarin (accent from Mainland china) and was rudely received by the guard but when it's my turn to ask for directions in English the guard suddenly got self conscious and became polite to me....
Andrea Tsang I don't think it's just "some" of them. For example, if you have a bad experience in a shop, you will generally say that shop owner is rude. You won't say the people over here are rude. Face it, even some Hong Kongers they themselves mentioned they found the society to be generally "impatient". Not every Hong Kongers are rude but the culture is "fast paced". (Coming from a person who lives in an extremely fast paced yet still friendly society)
Yes,in fact it's true but only some ..btw some ppl in HongKong ,will charge you more if you are not Cantonese ...it's the truth ?i have experience it a few times edi,it's better to learn it before you go there
As with any societies, there are bound to be some bad apples. Some Hongkongers are well mannered and some are rude and bad-tempered. My first time in HK was marred by a bad encounter. I was angrily scolded by an elderly taxi driver when I asked him to stop at a certain section of a road because it was forbidden to alight there. In Malaysia we can literally request taxi drivers to stop anywhere. Those Hongkongers that beat up Mandarin speaking people were people afflicted with psychotic and antisocial disorders.
Dude, if you tell a taxi driver to alight at a yellow line, he might as well get fined with hundreds of dollars. Many jobs in Hong Kong have low wages, you're basically telling him to lose his salary. Hypocrite
they are poor and they work very hard! if you know cantonese well and you know their lives well(like my dad) you can actually put up a nice conversation
Some HKers in the comments say that they treat ppl from Mainland very rudely because most Mainlanders have bad manners, so these people gotta prepared? Are you fking kidding me? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Last time when me and my best friend (she's from Mainland) were in HK, she asked the retail clerks questions politely, and some clerks (mostly the young ones) always gave the rude and impatient attitude (The store was not busy at all). And when I spoke English or Cantonese (My mom is from Guangdong, so I speak Cantonese) I never got this kind of attitude. I asked her to speak English instead, and she chose not to, even though she speaks fluent English. So if manners matter so much to you HKers, can you explain why some of you treat ppl differently by where they're from? Or Is this the kind of "manner" that you believe in? My friend was well-educated and have great manners, and she didn't do anything wrong. And to some of the people who act this way in HK, if you can just split 20% of the passion of you serving white ppl to serve Asian ppl better you'll definitely have less complaining customers, and HK will be a much more attractive place to visit. People in Taiwan have more reasons to hate Mainlanders, while I've never seen them having such an attitude to my friends when we were in Taipei, even if they could clearly tell that she's from Mainland (they have different accent) because they asked her which city in Mainland she's from. So kudos to the Taiwanese on this one. Note: To those of you haters, no need to flip out on me, and don't try to convince me to hate Mainlanders (I do know that some of them are really rude). I understand not all HKers are like that, and most HK ppl are very nice ppl. But when I saw this kind of shit a couple of times, it just ridiculed me. In America, you may get sued if you treat your customer this way. You guys can learn a lot from the customer service in Taiwan. Please don't reply me if you're just trying to start a debate. I'm just telling the truth, if you don't like it, leave the internet and live your life.
Well..."If you speak English, they'd treat you nice," is commonly misunderstood. Reason 1) some of them don't know English well. So, they'd just use whatever they have learned (from school) to reply you. So, they seem "nicer" to you. Since there aren't "attitude words", such as "ah, ga, la, ba,..." in English, you can't figure out their attitude like in Mandarin/Cantonese. HK ppl just have the impatient attitude going on most of the time. Even when I speak Cantonese to them, I didn't receive the kind of politeness I receive from the US or Taiwan on a daily basis. Reason 2) There are many news about Mainlanders pooped on the street, in the mall, inside the bus in front of everyone, they tend to generalize Mainlanders. Reason 3) Political issue: I think you'd get it. One time, me and my friend from the US visited HK, I told her to speak Mandarin at the luxury store. She refused and spoke Cantonese. She was almost ignored by the staff there. The reality is now people welcome Mandarin (= money).
As u said, I've heard lots of concerns from friends from the mainland when I studies English in Malaysia. They showed me nasty feeling when I said even I've been to Hong Kong. They told me" we don't like Hong Kong anymore. We've seen many footages some Hong Kongners attempted to assault tourists from mainland. Also, We've seen huge number of comments with full of hate from Hong Kong netizens. U Japanese people are really polite even we don't have good relationship as the countries. But HK isn't. They're more aggressive towards us than even Taiwanese. " I really suprised how anti mainland sentiment in Hong Kong is getting serious after China oppressed umbrella revolution and democracy in Hong Kong. I'm not pro-China communist and I really hate unacceptable behaviour by bunch of group tourists and some as*holes from mainland. In addition, I really hope the success of Hong Kong independence or reunification with United Kingdom too. However, this doesn't mean I support to hate all mainlanders and harass people who speak Mandarin with mainland accent. All mainlanders who I've met are really polite, educated ,diligent and calm unlike some Japanese. I felt really shame as Japanese because most Japanese in Malaysia came for playing around and not try to blend in the local community . All mainlanders are f*ckers and non- Chinese people are good? I don't think so. I know not all Hong Konger are violent or rude. People are people after all. I really love HK as the one country. Thank u.
the reason is very clear: many Hongkongese cannot afford to buy apartment and house in hongkong, while more and more mainland Chinese buy houses in HK, Hongkongese feel hopeless.
When I stayed in HongKong for almost a month to pursue intensive Fashion Classes. I had a great time. I wouldn't consider hongkongers to be rude... rather I think they just value time very much like gold and they are always busy. I think people from hongkong are nice and some of them would smile a lot too. Most of where I went is at Sheung Wan, Central, Causeway bay and Sham Shui Po maybe different people have different experiences. I lost 3,000 US Dollars but it was returned to me after 5 days when I looked for it at the airport.
Travelled to Hong Kong a lot of times for SAT during my high school, spoke Mandarin and always got super friendly help from locals! For a lot of times they even took me to the places I asked about! As a mainlander I always love how welcoming most Hong Kong people are! 😘
Lai Yi Tam i bet you are one of those loser doesn't make any contribution to the society but only barking all the time. and btw, hk is always a city of China, no one can't change, because China is too strong, no other countries or person on this planet can change this.
Hong Kong folks are just rude and I'm Chinese. Although I was born and raised here, I've lived in HK and speak it pretty fluently. They're rude to me no matter what. And in the states, I goto a local dim sum place they're rude to me too. LOL. We just some rude people.
you can’t just assume they’re rude like that. hong kong people are efficient and handle things quick. this is a fast paced city and that’s why they’re grumpy sometimes if you arent following the same pace. they dont have a second to waste.
Hello everyone, i want to say that my dad comes from Hong Kong but my Mother was grown up in Vietnam and her parents are from China Chaozhou, but my brother and i were born in Austria now i'm 16 and not all hong kongers are rude We were often in Hong Kong and i know that not all people in HK are rude/mean maybe some people but every country has rude people, and my brother and i mostly speak german together. We were grown up in Austria but we have Hong Kong - Chinese Blood and we have manners, i'm thankful for everything and we (my family) are nice . I know if you have built shit you've to apologize and if you rude sometimes… no matter where you come from or who you are, there are always people who hate you or are mean/rude to you even if you're nice
When you begin to defend Hong Kong and it’s people, I wonder if you read Chinese, can you read some of the comments written by Hong Kongers here? There are bad apples everywhere but are you aware of the sheer hate some Hong Kongers possess just because you’re born in China? They gonna blame it on their society they gonna blame it on politics, but when your mainstream media herald the ‘bravery’ of your own ppl for literally assaulting mainland tourists, there’s something very wrong with your culture. And I have every reason to call it a very rude and disgusting society.
There's also something very wrong with a culture that beats up Hong Kong journalists for inquiring into building safety standards in Sichuan. Even worse when Hong Kong's own government won't defend Hong Kong values, but prefer to lick China's toes and make excuses for such barbarity.
The main reason behind was neither mandarin, nor english. Most people in hong kong speak Cantonese! You find them rude simply because you don't understand canto. Basically you don't understand the language and then you read their responses as rudeness. This is like I insist to speak in french in England, and I then call the British rude just simply because no one understands me? It doesn't make sense, right? In fact, most of their responses were just daily conversations. To be honest, they didn't use any rude words at all in their sentences.
I went to Hong Kong to get my Canadian visa in 2003. I spoke Mandarin to Hong Kongers. The experience was unpleasant. No desire to go back and visit there!
I only spoke in English when I went to Hongkong many, many years ago, and the men in an airport shop were really rude. When you just looking at their display, they want you to buy their goods straight away. Of course I did not, and they were so rude. A number of times I stopped over in Hongkong during my trips, and observe people's faces, nobody ever smile.
Grew up overseas and go back to hk every so often, and I do have the sense that people get colder every time I come back, i think rather than saying they're rude, its more like a lot of people think there's no time to be nice, and there is absolutely a minimal amount of people who will specifically go out of their way to help someone else.
I think the older generation is somewhat prejudice towards anyone that speaks Mandarin since most Mandarin speakers were from Mainland China. Back in the days, other than Cantonese, English was the second language, not Mandarin. But in todays younger to middle generation, more HK folks have learned Mandarin in school (required by the government), so there are more people that know Mandarin more so than English. Just like in France, a lot of folks have learned English as a second language and are extremely fluent, they would just prefer that you speak to them in French or at least try to when first communicating. Once they figure out you are not a native French speaker (but tried speaking French) and realize that you know English, they usually are very open to start speaking in English to you. Same goes for HK when it comes to speaking Cantonese, English and Mandarin.
Haha classic! Even my Singaporean Chinese friend told me about this phenomena. She said her colleagues actually received the bad treatment upon speaking in mandarin, but better treatment when in English. What the heck? Lol. Really dumb if you ask me.
Oh man... honestly I didn't notice different treatments or service received speaking English or Chinese but then again, they say my accent is distinctly Taiwanese 🤔
Regardless of speaking Chinese or English, my personal experience in HK have concluded that some of the local hongkonger kind of rude especially taxi drivers and those work in retail line. Either they will show you faces or they will blame on you for the things you don't know. Been there twice and I don't think I will go back again.
Haha, I have done similar things, I will speak English, Mandarin, Cantonese, their attitude will really be different. Hong Kong is more free than the mainland, but his people are closed. They do not understand the changes in the mainland society.Therefore, even if I and they have a similar Lingnan cultural background and the same mother tongue, I still look down on most of the people of Hong Kong. Lol
Yes, big changes in China's society, like even more clamp down on freedom of speech, increasing technological surveillance of expression and movement, thuggish tactics against perceived enemies, increasing pressure to express blind subservience to the party, and oh let's not forget unlimited terms of power for the dictator. Such progress.
+FleshRebellion so let’s just conveniently choose to ignore that a billion people were lifted out of poverty in the span of three decades. No one in China is starving anymore like they used to and the majority of young people gain university level educations. People now have the disposable income to raise pets and take care of stray dogs and cats, as well as travel. There’s a push for environmental conservation and for a decrease in carbon emissions. The attitudes in China have changed drastically even in the last decade, humanitarianism is on the rise and many are choosing to pursue the arts. My friend, that IS progress and choosing to ignore it makes you sound very close-minded. Political change will come slowly and in a way that benefits Chinese society, the Chinese understand that an upheaval of the political system would lead to chaos in China. No matter what outsiders say, the Chinese know what’s best for them for the time being.
Valerie Ssk How rose tinted. Deng Xiaopeng's policy helped by HK and Taiwan investors lifted China out of abject poverty. Xi Jinping is reviving Mao style clamp downs and political purges. Just as economic changes happened with lightning speed, social mores are also changing extremely rapidly. The disturbing amount of blind nationalistic fervour is sweeping across China when a few years ago it was unfashionable to do so. There continue to be workers in the lower classes conveniently moved about and deported between cities when workers are needed, and sent back to whichever villages either because of economic declines in some sectors (a worldwide phenomenon) or political expediencies (like Olympic games and such face lifting events), infinitely worsened by the hukou system which institutionalises the inequities of the capitalist market.
It is so depend on which person you are talking to, it is because some of the people don't like to speck or maybe busy. Second, most of the people in Hong Kong are willing to speak English and Cantonese, not a lot of citizens will like to speak Mandarin to others if not necessary. I am a HongKongese and I would like to help everybody when they come over for questions. I think this is kind of a personal habit or what they too used to what they act as the way they lived or maybe they just speak loud because of the working area.
im a taiwanese american studying in Hong Kong and so far ive been lucky to have encountered ppl who knows english whenever im asking for help. Tho it does help to speak Mandarin when talking to older people and gets things done a lot faster
Cantonese was spoken in the Chin Dynasty. Confucius lectured his pupiles in Cantonese. Cantonese was widely used in the Tong Dynasty. Cantonese was spreaded in Guangzhou after the Chin soldiers conquered the region.
to my travelling experiences in hong kong,the peoples' manner were even worst during the colonial times,somehow there was improvment after the financial crisis 2008,but as a whole still way behind taiwan,japan,s'pore or even many asean countries .
I recently traveled to Hong Kong and I was honestly so excited as it was my first time being in Asia because all I ever knew was being an Asian-American in the Midwest. When I arrived, I definitely noticed how the people treated me. I grew up speaking some Cantonese, but because I’m learning Mandarin in school, my Mandarin skills have significantly surpassed my Cantonese skills, so I always tried to communicate in Cantonese, Mandarin, and/or English. The people weren’t necessarily rude, but just in a hurry to get on with their own lives. After visiting Hong Kong, I traveled to Taiwan and loved the people and environment of Taiwan so much more than HK. Even with my broken Mandarin skills, (most) people are much more willing to help than in HK.
I was there in 1992. It was the most unfriendly City I have ever been to! I met some Filipina OFW's and they treated me like I was in their home, and they took me to restaurants and showed me around and they were just workers there. How nice of them!
Ive travelled to hong kong once and i found out the people there actually are so nice. Especially the younger generations. Once there is a young disabled man try to bring me to the place that i wanted to go and i was so surprised yet thankful as i didn’t realized that he was a disabled at first. The people there also explained everything whenever i asked them and i think it all depends on how you perceived things and your perception towards people
3:40 That's a pretty inconsiderate thing to ask honestly. If I were there server, I would've told you all, "Ma'am, our kitchen staff is not going to change their operating tempo simply because you are unable to manage your time appropriately." Lol!
Cantonese is always the best option in Hong Kong. even if you only know some basic phrases . BTW, when you speak mandarin , we don’t respond so well ,simply because many of us DO NOT speak and DO NOT understand mandarin good enough. Not because the discrimination!
I'm from Hong Kong and I would say that we are not rude people. We just have very stressful, fast-paced lives from the long working hours and the massive amount of people everywhere really crank people up. I myself also get annoyed really easily during the busy weekdays and usually couldn't be bothered by others. Perhaps u might be in the wrong place at the wrong time to get that outcome. Perhaps during the weekend, people will be nicer? You need to understand that 90% people u encountered are probably in a rush so thats why they are moody or something
hongkies are one of the rudest ppl you can meet. even between close friends, they will to 'chuen' each other. the words they use are inflamatory, rude, insensitive and not courteous and meant to insult.
Ms IrisVirus do you know why Cantoneses is considered " Tong Language " because it was widely used in the Tong Dyasty. Manderine is just a mixture of nomads' languages created after Manchurians conquered China.
As long as you are polite, Hong Kong people are not going to be rude. The problem sometimes with mainlanders visitors are they are rude so the response is rude from people.
i never think ,that hong kong people is polite ，especially to mainland chinese .seems hong kong Social Issues made by china.some people abuse china public and some attack Chinese children and woman. This is a cowardly action！！
elaine mo i faced so many time responsibilities place of hongkong.they are rude behaviour every hk ppl hat and showing bad behaviour with mainland ppl because they are simple kind and unfashionable
timothwc2 - sadly yes many HKers now are from mainlands and they don't behave and thats why the real HKers don't like their behaviour and twisted logic. May be those who told you they were HKers were actually from mainland in the South... Many of them like to lie about their origin. Sadly.
Bottom line - HK is fucking sad. Sadly, the tourists and expats will continue saying this is such a east-meets-west paradise. Too bad you will only see it this way, IF you can afford to live in a different country every three months. Let's put it this way, if I went to India for leisure, I'd be able to live like a king too. But that doesn't mean I'm not aware that a vast majority of the people over there are living in hell. Which is exactly the same situation in HK. Basically, if you can't just pack your bags and move to another country, you are FUCKED FUCKED FUCKED in this age of Globalization.
well they are going to know you are from taiwan instead of the mainland because of your accent. i dont see why they would treat taiwanese as rude as mainlanders. personally i was quite surprised by the lack of english in hong kong. i might aswell speak chinese while i am there, people barely knew any english. its not a criticism i just expected something different due to the countrys history and the fact that english is an official language. great place anyway.
Yea I wasn't really aware of my own accent being distinct enough to tell lol But honestly, I'm quite impressed with the level of English here in Hong Kong especially when you compare it with other nearby countries
people in hong kong have better vocabs thats for sure, if you try to converse with them in english they will be throwing out related vocabs and 9 out of 10 times you'll be able to guess what they're trying to say, gammer on the other hand is a different story
IrisVirus your accent is too obvious it's defiantly Taiwanese. Next time try Beijing accent and you will definitely get a different result. REMEMBER TO USE MAINLAND VOCAB like 普通話 I noticed you used 國語 which is something mainlanders would not say
Taiwanese ppl seems to be more open and less loud compare to mainlanders, especially how they talk and their manners are different. They know when they sit on a MTR that one person equals one seat and not try to occupy or steal a seat from you.
I had a few problems near causeway bay with people ignoring me. Tung Chung was way better with hikers saying hello and things. Mainlander tourists at Avenue of stars responded to me even though they didn't know English. HK police are friendly too
Yes! I found their police officers quite friendly and helpful! Can't disagree with you on the people ignoring part.. but I rather believe that they just didn't hear me or have fears speaking to strangers lol
i don't think they are rude because you use putonhua, it's because some mainlanders are bossy and lack of manners. I've been in HK many times, and people is nice to me and to my mandarin speaking friends.
you gotta experience the city and the culture to be able to form an opinion, luckily for me, I have been living in mainland China for 4 years now and I had the chance to visit HK so many times and the cultural differences are huge.
You don't look Chinese so they're nice to you. I'm Taiwanese Canadian, and I get shitty service all the time. Service-wise: Taiwan>China>HK; but China is rapidly catching up to Taiwan and I've notice a fall in service quality in Taiwan whenever I go back home.
OMG I had to post before I even finish this video! It's true! I've been to HK too many times. First few times I went there I spoke mandarin and got some HARSH treatments. Not even slightly rude, just HARSH. Once I was at the HK airport and went to a ground staff to ask where my gate was. I said excuse me in mandarin and she ignored me. So I said it 2 more times and she still ignored me. And then I had to approach her and tap on her shoulder to get attention. She immediately shook my hand off of her shoulder and said "I'm busy!" with a strong attitude and pretended to make a phone call and quickly walked away. That was the first time I've seen anybody be so rude to me in public. And it was her job to help me too! Man I was shook! So after that every time I go I only speak English, pretend that I'm not from mainland. It's so pathetic! I love the city and all, but some people I went for help were super rude to me, not just this one time. People say that mainland Chinese are rude but that's not true, most people are friendly and would help you if they can. A lot of old ladies are rude tho lol, but at least they don't give you different treatments. No matter you speak English or Chinese, they're equally rude to you. I somehow feel better from the equal rudeness than the double standard lol. Of course not all HK people are like that, a lot of other people I met were really friendly. Overall I still recommend going to HK! They have the greatest food ever!
Elysah Sanvel I am a mainland Chinese living in Singapore for good....Fair to say...I think Singaporeans are way much better in terms of how they treat foreigners...hk is never a place that i want to visit.
uh...I'm an overseas chinese but my parents are from mainland and I've been to both countries....Singaporeans are definitely much more polite than hong kong people for me
Singapore is definitely a place with no soul, it’s so sterile and dullllll. No freedom of speech no democracy whatsoever even China mainland is much more free. HK is much more interesting, edgy, cool and fun to live. They have real culture not some kind of a artificial culture pushed by the gov. I prefer HK any day. HK media/news/entertainment is so much more vibrant because of free press.
Huehue Singaporean here to defend ourselves. Every country has its good and its bad and Singapore has so many friendly people and of course we have some rude people. But which country doesn't have rude people? Feel free to tour Singapore some day or another ^^
Sry but I would say hong kongers will always n forever be the same because they dont accept criticize towards them. And pls dont compare singaporean to HK, been to both countries singaporean definitely much better than HKers.
I think you should go around HK for the experiment because some districts are busy and some are not. People always testing this kind of experiment just in busy places. And observe that HK people are busy. People in my district are kind of relax and helpful
I hold a SG passport at the age of 2. I lived in HK until Secondary school. Then moved to SG for O and A's. Followed by Uni in UK. Any questions, feel free to ask (in a polite manner).
I'm a British born Hong Kong, I sometimes have to use Cantonese and English. What I find is that when I use English, they seem a little more friendlier at times, but when at restaurants where it's more busy, they tend to rush you, I think it's because there's just too many people and they want to quickly clean the table and get someone else to use the table to eat.
If u understand how hard the life of hk people is,You will understand why hk people had no patience to everything and rude to everyone. Everyone here is unhappy. But I do not expect tourists to understand this before they come and visit hk, just let them think what they think.
Honestly, I gotta say I don't see much difference other than people who are approached with English speaking as wanting to back away first. This is pretty typical in every majority non-English speaking country I have visited, Hong Kong included. The idea that I and my friends have come up with is that English being a second or possible third language for many of those who do speak it is not as fluent and widely understood so they aren't able to practice with natives in their home nation, thus, they may be embarrassed or put on the spot and fumble around with the words a bit. I do the same when I am forced to speak Swedish, Hebrew, Spanish, or French myself. But no, I see no differences other than that in this video. Quite frank, Im so accustomed to this behavior of people when I speak English that it hasn't really bothered me.
i experienced how rude and uneducated most them are. a female vendor pushed me and shouted at me just because i didnt buy her goods. it is the worst experience and vacation that i ever had.
I went to HK a couple of years ago for a holiday and the people were so rude! If you speak English people will literally walk away from you. Whilst I enjoyed parts of my holiday the people in general were not friendly or helpful at all. Lessons learnt I will be learning some Japanese before going to Japan next year.
honestly speaking cantonese is a language that DOESN'T sound sweet and easy-flowing compared to languages such as english and french. It's a language that is more rough in a sense? Hence why people think that cantonese people may sound rude unless you do know the language (I'm cantonese so lol) and when they speak mandarin the accent isn't good so it sounds rough and rude but in reality it isn't.. trust me.
Guy, I speak Cantonese and I still feel like I'm getting yelled at. That lady in the restaraunt? Sounded like my mom giving me shit. Just reminds me of downtown L.A
Cherie Yang . I'm Cantonese myself but not HK. Cantonese people are mostly rude especially in HK. Can you people speak slowly so it doesn't sound rude at all? I'm glad that mainland speak putonghua . The white make fun of Cantonese all the time but you Cantonese doesn't have a guts to speak up!
Wen Chen not saying everyone is polite in HK, but politeness differs greatly across cultures. It's unhelpful telling people to just stop being rude when they don't even realize talking briskly is considered rude for some cultures. Being direct and effective with your language is perfectly acceptable for most HKers. And so what if Westerners make fun of Cantonese (if that even happens at all)? Such behavior would only show a lack of understanding and appreciation of local culture; speakers of Cantonese have nothing to prove. And finally, Cantonese is inextricably tied with HK identity and has a rich history - the average HKer has no desire for it to be replaced by Mandarin.
In my experience, they're not necessarily nicer to Mandarin speaking folks. They are just more able to communicate w/ them. It depends where you go in HK. If you go to the mall, especially higher end places like Lane Crawford or East Tsim Sha Tsui area where there are fancy hotels, staff working there treat you better if you speak English than when you speak Mandarin. If you go to more local places where people don't really know English, they either avoid you or walk away because they seem to be more avoidant to interact w/ English speakers. Also I understand Cantonese so I hear a lot of local HK people make fun or talk negatively about mainland Chinese.
I am Korean and visited HK 3 mouths ago , mandarin is more widely used than before , but I don’t speak it and my English is also bad , People in HK can identify Korean as the accent , and they treat us nice )))
As a local, to be blunt 1. If you're an ABC, you better speak fluent Cantonese/Mandarin or locals will judge you differently. 2. The English level in Hong Kong is extremely low or next to non existent as all service industry people are mainland people. 😁 3. It also depends on which area you go to visit...HK island, Kowloon, or New Territories. HK island has the better English speaking locals. 4. It also depends on your skin colour. if your mainlander you would be ok depending on the location you visit; Caucasians are usually ok they just give you an English menu and you poke around the menu for the items you want to eat; ABC well..either you don't speak Cantonese or Mandarin fluently then your fucked. We judge you differently as "why can't you learn either language properly". At least speak the language fluently if you can't read/write it". 5. HKers are a tough crowd and we know it. We're pretty much the Asian version of U.S.A., rude and cocky.
fcnghkkc1 you're the only person that sees America that way. Ask anyone from around the world and people will often say people from the US are very kind and open to conversation. Chinese people on the other hand, they are terrible tourists and even worse mainlanders.
Christian Fabien Americans are known to be open and friendly, Westerners in general really. But as an American, I must say that we're too patriotic for our own good and lowkey pretty fkin racist lmao.
mchann ya that's very true, at least the patriotic part. The truth is the only parts that are really racist are the south and it's dying slowly not to mention most foreigners don't go to the south anyways.
Woovil87 :: Dude, Hong Kong was a former British colony, why couldn't they think that they were British....was never meant to be China in the first place.
Video well done. I also believe that's a myth. I was told same thing on my first trip and only spoke English in HK for a while. Till once I asked for direction in a MTR station in Chinese and the lady was super nice.
Actually... we can tell if they are from the mainland china before they speak. Very easy... i don’t know how to explain but it is super easy for us to tell. Some kids who cross the border every day to study in Hong Kong, wearing hong kong school uniform... etc... but I can also recognise them from a big group of other local students. Even if u speak native cantonese to me, I can also tell if u are from hong kong or Guangzhou. But it doesn’t matter... we can differentiate the differences but not discriminate over them. Sometimes you might find us rude, but maybe that’s because you are rude too. If you are kind, people in generally treat you nice.
A lot of people think they’re rude most of the time because of the way they talk, I was born in an English speaking country but my family speaks cantonese and my parents are not very fluent in English but they know mandarin very well because they are from Guangdong, but cantonese as a whole is a really sharp language and it doesn’t flow the same way mandarin does. People from hong kong or guangdong often don’t speak the way fluent mandarin speakers do so they sound ruder because of the cantonese influence.
Very interesting experiment... the thing is.. most of the Sales you met in cosmetic store, or waitress in all the eateries are from mainland.. they prefer mandarin and of coz will react faster. However, when u come across local HKers who are not that fluent but knows basic english ( eg. the policeman, the mtr guy) they will stop and answer u in english because we learnt english and it is mandatory
Hong Kong people aren't rude. Cantonese just naturally sounds loud and rude, but that's just how the language is. Shouting is their way of marketing back in the old days and still is how they market nowadays. People are also very stressed and shy, their daily lives are already hard enough. There's no stable variable in this experiment. I have an English speaking friend and a Cantonese speaking friend and both their experiences were basically the same
From my experience, I observed that it is simply in their culture. They are not trying to be rude, but rather they are too impatient and do not usually want to wait for us to think and decide on our own slow pace. We visited a congee shop for four consecutive days we were there (yes it was that delicious) and it went from a fast paced, impatient ordering system to a friendly "hey, what do you want?" and wanting to know where we came from and how my boyfriend spoke Cantonese (fluent enough for them to understand, but not 100% sure it was right). At other locations we have only been to once, they are just as impatient, especially at popular food locations. At some shops that are not so crowded, when we tried to speak in English or mandarin, depending on which language they understood, they tend to be less impatient. As to countries like Japan, that a number of people mentioned as a polite country with great services, we saw and experienced Japanese who were rude once they know we were foreigners, Japanese who spit on the floor, threw rubbish on the floor, and those who pushed one another out of the way when it was crowded. There is the culture in every country, and the better or worse people who come out of the same culture. So since we are in a different country, learn their culture and see if it fits us. If it doesn't, travel to a different country in the future or try to give it a second chance before making a decision! My first trip to Japan was horrible, but my second one improved and the third was the best. My second trip to Taiwan had me experience a group of Taiwanese who might have tried cheating me of my money... so treat every trip as a learning experience. :)
Idk, ive seen alot of comments that people say hk people are rude, i dont really find that, ive never experienced that in hong kong before, except this one time my little sister went to earring store, the girls that works their were kinda rude but overall all the other store i went, they were nice to me
I have been hk many times, and i like hk, i have meet countlessbof people, some are friendly and nice people, but very high percentage are damn rude, rough, and unwilling to render help to tourist, even just asking for direction, teksi driver, waiter, waitress, 8 out of 10 are impolite. Well , maybe is the stress level, they have to face everday. Hope they will improve. Love hk
honestly, whatever language you speak, they'll still be rude. My dad is a mainlander but he grew up in HK before he moved to the Philippines, so whenever we go to HK, sometimes he speaks in mandarin, and sometimes he speaks in cantonese, and we just speak in english since our dad didn't taught us cantonese, but at the end of the day, they're still rude no matter what language you use. There seems to be like an unspoken rule to not speak with them for more than a minute lol or they get annoyed. And when you're in the subway and one of them accidentally bumps into you, they throw yo a dirty look even if you said sorry--even if it's THEIR fault. Maybe it's just a cultural thing. I might be stereotyping, but whatever, they stereotype mainlanders like my dad too anyway ha. Mainland chinese are rude and impolite because they are uneducated. Hong Kong people are rude and impolite because they are impatient, self-righteous, racist, and selfish.Reading the comment section just further proves that. The mainlanders are willing to admit their mistakes, but hong kong people just cuss you and start a fight with you when you tell them their mistakes. These just tell a lot about the character of hong kong people
As a local we actually get used to this environment and just shout for example in a restaurant by the road we literally just go shouting out orders and also I think its really disrespectful to the waiters if u don't know what to order and call them over since they r busy so sorry If we seem rude but we just grew up to everybody saying just get it done
I grew up in Hong Kong and that’s how people treat me in shops and restaurants as well. Yes the waitress will yell at you if you are taking your time in a cha Chan teng, the point is they will get the food ready as fast as possibilities, not to stand there with you, have a nice little chat and go through the menu with you. Decide what you want before calling them over. They are also used to yelling with each other if they don’t have an intercom system. I had a big cultural shock when the chasier asked me how was my day when I first came to Australia. In Hong Kong they will just start grabbing your stuff, scanning and bagging them in lightening speed before saying “thanks bye”. Hong Kong is a face paced city and no one has time for pleasantries.
very similar in leeds , no has time for being pleasant its in or out on the fast food
@@heydonlam5936 There's been waves of mainland immigration in the last 30 years so not everyone in HK has a colonial childhood with English taught at school/etc.
Same like Singapore, one min thinking of the menu the auntie or uncle in coffeeshop will 🔪 🔪 I used to sweat when ordering 😂
@@SerBallister English is still taught in school and the English level of Hong Kongers have improved compared to colonial time…
New York is a fast paced city and cashiers will still ask you how your day is going.
dude if you spoke english and then switched to mandarin mid interaction thats not gonna work, shoulda just gone up and straight up start speaking beijing dialect with the curled tongue and shit for best results
we do hate that accent the most its so stupidly rude
Beijing mandarin sounds horrible!
the northern accent sounds the best to americans.
Americans pronounce their "r's" in a very similar way, so it's the preferred accent to learn in America.
thekingofmoney2000 the pronunciation of r is not the same actually.
such a bad social experiment.
Wong Michelle right
Can't agree more. It's more like a Hongkong traveling advertisement rather than a social experiment.
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Hmmmm.... From the video I sense that they are... not rude, but impatient... whether you speak English or Chinese.
They are impatient and it can be mistaken as rudeness. Korean culture also very fast paced so is japanese (as with HK) but I find koreans to be warmer (if that makes any sense) they can be impatient but their warmth shines through their impatience while HK people lack that "warmth" no offence but they just seem distant, cold and hard to approach compared to most asian nations.
Koreans have a very strong hierarchy thing going. Sure, they're polite to strangers, but if they're higher up in this hierarchy they can be pretty nasty.
I agree they can be nasty.
I am Korean, but I strongly agree with you. That lunatic hierarchy system must disappear in Korea for good. Thanks for pointing it out. We Koreans need to realize what is right and what is not.
I think impatience is common in most big cities. Lots of people are in a rush.
i am a local and i get treated like shit here as well. i don't think this will ever change, people are always so tense and so impatient, because life is very difficult here. there's no way out really, i don't suggest hk as a travel destination to any of my friends.
I don't think it's unchangeable. You guys HAVE to stand up and oppose the government when necessary.
Actually I come to Hong Kong just for the food.
@@Zeddddy it's not a terrible place to live here. Besides from the stress you get from extra lessons, loads of homework and high expectations, it's great!
@@hywei5171 as if they’re gonna listen to us😅
@@hywei5171 I'm from HK and I think the gov currently is quite good. The main problems are with property prices and most people and satisfied with the government. I don't think the rude people are associated with the government tho.
Ive been to Hong Kong twice already, but i must say that some HonG Kong people are rude. Customer service is almost negative to me. i tried going to Australia dairy company, people who works there has zero english , people were rude and will just yell at you, even at mcdonalds. very different from japanese and taiwanese people where it is also a fast phase country, but they would try their best to help you even they cant speak english!
well i dont know how to speak mandarin, only english, and we were talking to them in english, even the teenager who was working at a mcdonalds was even rude, oh well i guess thats a norm in hk. i prefer filipinos and indians working in hk, they are very kind if u need help
Sweet Asian maybe they don't speak English well so they seem rude?
tsim sha tsui! well maybe because u are chinese already, thats why they are nicer to u
well they dont act like that in other countries, especially compared to taiwanese and japanese
Sweet Asian I think it's just that most Hong Kong people do not like interacting with strangers, and yes I think it's extremely rude too. Think about it, being greeted in Hong Kong is so rare.
When I'm in Hong Kong, I try using English and Mandarin, and I've found most people in the service industry speak Mandarin. Sometimes I also try out my beginning-level Cantonese. In all cases, I've found people to be mostly polite, but as in most places, people tend to be rude if they're really busy or in a hurry.
Haha I think Hong Kong is just a very fast paced environment so people tend to lose patience fast. Next time I'm in Hong Kong will make sure to pick up a few Cantonese phrases 😁
darn just when I thought going to Hong Kong would increase my patient skills :u
I think they all hust sound rude. It just seems to be a cantonese thing. Theyre a fast paced society and just talk to fast. And their accents dont help either. They sound rude but it doesn't necessarily mean they are.
I'd say more like "impatient"
ArmyCats they aren't impatient , can't u see how many people are in that restaurant. In hk u will never get a table by yourself, most people are like sharing with a stranger on a table. In hk , it's such a small country with over 7 million people, buildings are more than 70 story high. They need to keep the business running quick and fast to make money. U don't live there , u don't know it's culture so you can't just judge by this video.
Cathy Fung ive had many mainland Chinese friends.. And many ones who spoke cantonese most who were from hk. And i am not basing this on a single person, but i am speaking from my personal experience. They ARE impatient and very fast spoken. And can come off as being very rude or disrespectful. But they may not want to be seen that way thats just how they are. Fast paced people from face paced society.
According to your theory, Koreans and the Japanese should also be rude and disrespectful then? But no they're still polite and try to be polite because they care about what others think of them. Its a cultural thing too. Thats just how they are
I'm not judging anything. I'm just saying what I observed based on this video.
My impression remains the same: They are impatient.
+ArmyCats "They are impatient"...... Sorry, you are just too slow...
I went to HK last year though I use English to communicate though I know some Mandarin. I notice the local treat you better when you spoke English ...
they are hypocritical people , some people un Hong ....
That's because they are really busy. If you know a language they speak often, they get you over and done with, if you speak a foreign language, they struggle, so they speak differently. They don't speaking rudely though, the language just sounds rude to you but it isn't
@@madelaluz8482 they aren't hypocritical, Chinese and Cantonese just sounds loud and rude but it isn't, if you understood the language then maybe you would understand why they sound rude to you. Stop making accusations based on what little information you know.
I was in hongkong and talking to the waitress in english. She was polite at first. Then i started talking to my mom in mandarin, and she just started to give us looks and threw menu on the table and left, and didnt come back for order until we called another waiter.
😱 sorry to hear about your experience at the restaurant. I hope you didn't let it get to you and ruin your day :/
wow i m really sorry this happened to you....
A part of Hong Kong god damn DESPISES the mainlanders.
For what reason I won't explain here, but many people here are nice.
她心里想中国人说什么英语装逼？
Bryne uhh hongkong people speak cantonese not mandarin.But maybe that waitress is speakint mandarin
i went to hong kong once last year. the thing i noticed is, if they know you are from mainland. they somehow treat you more rudely. no offence, i am a singaporean. But this is what i experience and see with my own eyes there. because of this issue, i dont dare to speak chinese as i am afraid of being discriminated there. gladfully i learn abit of cantonese.
Lol basically what my Chinese friend described. She gave me a headsup not to speak Mandarin Chinese in HK
Unfortunately it is true. I am from Beijing and I travel to Hong Kong sometimes, I can always tell that they are fed up with people who speak Mandarin with a mainland accent for no reason . But at the same time, i also have good hong kong friends from my American University who are nice and open minded. I really wish this HK-Mainland problem can diminish eventually. It is a shame for all Chinese ethnicity afterall.
Michelle Wmx I'm a Singaporean too, I guess they are able to differentiate the accent of our mandarin, plus most Singaporean speaks broken Chinese~~~ 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Michelle Wmx not just mainlander, you can feel that hongkong people worships westerner(European white) a lot at the same times they despise Asian including themselves badly.
Wy123 nope I don't think they worship westerners. More like they are inclusive of other nationalities, hence a lot of fusion foods. You can't generalize saying they all like westerners. Seeing as they suffered from the west and looked down on for hundreds of years.
I'm from Singapore and I was shocked when I went to Hong Kong, even when I speak english politely, their service is still meh.. It really sucks especially since I went to Taiwan right after my Hong Kong trip, Taiwan's service is extremely good. I mean Hong Kong has some gentle nice cultured people who are polite when I ask for some directions but in general I say I'll be happy if the service staff ignores me. Perhaps if you spoke in a taiwan accent it might be better, beats me.
Better do this experiment now in Hong Kong and then you judge hehe
Last November I heard people speak Madarine. So not nuch of a problem.
It's an interesting video, but I think it is hard to conclude much. I think HK people are busy and have an abrupt style of communication. They probably don't consider it rude, just efficient. However there are some that go beyond abrupt to extremely rude (doesn't matter what language you speak). I went places by myself and spoke English (some people were friendly, some abrupt and disinterested and yes some rude and unhelpful). Later I went places with some HK friends who spoke Cantonese with staff, pretty much the experience was the same as before when I spoke English. I don't know about Mandarin, but there are a lot of Mandarin speakers in HK now (not just tourists and traders), due to large scale immigration from mainland China. Some people have the perception that speaking English gives you better treatment but I don't think so. I think knowing Mandarin is an advantage simply because many staff understand it better and it makes their job easier.
I could never put it as nice as you did here juandenz2008 👍
Some I agree with you and now there's more and more mainstream coming in and out living in Hong Kong mixed Mainland/Hong Kong you don't really know who is who's rude rudely trader's /tourist or your in the wrong places 🤔I won't talk to u because am in a hurry or I dont understand u and there a reason for everything why people are like that .
I speak Mandarin, i don't speak a lot of Cantonese. But I do speak English. It's pretty much the same, some people are patient, some are rude. But i guess if you are white people, that's different. Their reaction is different if you are white or non-white.
Lived in hk for 4 months or so. I spoke English to avoid being perceived as a mainlander, but it's hard to find great services unless u are paying for hkd200+ meals. Personally I have no desire to visit the place again unless I have to. You could go to tokyo and experience a lot more for less money.
Will Chien but i went to tokyo and kyoto for a month i experience some rude attitude because they see me as a gaijin although i speak politely in Japanese. Idk maybe depends on people character and some of them will give racist attitude towards you even you nice to them to ask.
hki it happens in all over the world, even in different neighbourhoods.
Will Chien I agree if you go to high end places you won't experience their rudeness. I've been to HK twice and haven't tried street food or any ordinary restaurants . But if you stayed in five star hotels and high end restaurants you'll be treated nicely.
That sucks man!😑
@@faithlove1322 And also if you give them a lot of tips ! Lol!
to be honest, hk people arent being rude only to tourists. We could be pretty rude to locals as well.
I think there is some hidden social rules like being fast and be aware of your surrounding, trying not to obstruct others. That's the rule to survive here. Mainlanders got rude response frequently not just because of the political conflict between hk and china. It is because they didn't realize the situation in hk is totally different from that in china and they didn't adapt the social rules in hk.
(I was more than surprise when i realized there are tons of chinese that didn't realize how different hk people are. They don't even know we have different judicial system, tv channels, educational system....etc.)
As for english, i would say people who worked in restaurants, shops,etc are actually a bit scared of speaking in english. They would be more comfortable with mandarin due to increase of mainland tourists over the past decade. Not to mention a certain portion of them came from mainland china.
That's an interesting point. I think you might be right. Maybe tourists who don't realize this hits some "bad spots" in social manners and get bad treatments.
Now there are 2 countries (Hong Kong & China)I don't want to go.
US backed violent protest . How was that?
It's Luke NYC in the past, big cities have fast paced lifestyles.
I read many commenters using fast paced of life as an excuse. A person being rude is not a matter of how fast paced their society is. It is a reflection of their cultural upbringing or the lack of it.
Though I suspect the reasons for their rudeness and frustrations were the results of STRESS living in those inhumanely build TINY apartments. People are unable to LITERALLY relax at home to release tension!
Ive been there are few days ago they are rude but the city is beautiful
@@Missiloveafrica
The city may be superficially beautiful on the outside but it is what’s WITHIN that holds REAL value. No point being beautiful on the outside but the majority of citizens and their children are living like rats packed inside tiny apartments or WORST, can’t even afford a decent home after a lifetime of work…
What a bipolar comment
pick a side 🙄
As a hong konger I'm really sorry of our citezen's rude manners, but not all of them are actually. Some are really nice.
돈Dawnn I often hear that. But as far as I can feel, 90 % of Hong Kong people are really ignorant and rude.
@@Tccdan not all of them are rude.
When I go to hk, I expect people to be rude. When I encountered nice hk people, I get surprisely happy. Life is too short. I want to enjoy my life.
So true. I thought HK will be more polite but they are still a bit rude and cold. It is their way of life, but I am sure they have improved over the years. I have met a few nice people though. Still it won't stop me from going back to HK.
Your comment made me laugh😂😂😂😂 hope you enjoy your life even though 2 Years passed
Stay in hk island side - beyond that people are plain rude and impatient
@@AO-iv6yr yo, just because Cantonese sounds loud doesn't mean it's rude. You're making a very offensive accusation about the people here. It's just that the locals are used to speaking loudly, that's just how the people are. The language is also only understandable through clear pronunciation, please have some respect to them
@@Joey-un3hy not true, people further from Hk island have older traditions. They speak Cantonese loudly, people in Hk island only speak softly and less loud than the other is because of people like you complaining about how rude they sound, if you understood what they were saying, maybe you wouldn't hurt their feelings for no reason
I'm work before in Hongkong for 11 years and all I know mostly hongkong people's are not rude.
I guess because they are language Cantonese is more loud then Mandarin.
Mandarin is smoother
they are rude if you speak chinese.
If you're rude, people will then be rude no matter where you go.
A vast majority of HKers are losers. They wear their misery on their faces. They hate their job, and their favorite activity is to hang up the phone on their customers. REAL FACTS. Don't give me this shit that I attracted this rudeness to myself. Thank God I do almost all my business online now
That's ridiculous! How can you describe HK people as losers when they built one of the world's greatest cities with very little help from China. They are lively, hard-working, enthusiastic, quick-witted people and worthy of respect from outsiders. Their version of Cantonese is a vigorous, expressive, cheerful local dialect which works for them and is worth learning if you're planning to stay for a couple of years. I loved the years I lived and worked in Hong Kong. What I miss most is the people and their noisy conversation. They are very special to me.
Bouncybon this breed of hongkonger you speak about no longer exists, or has emigrated. The hongkonger today is either the whine-all-day type yearning for the glory days under the brits, or the backstabbing type who would betray their parents/best friends for some small benefit
That sounds horrible. OK I'm a Brit and the HK I knew was very favourable to us. (Although I was not on the famous "expat terms".) We even shared the same sense of humour as the locals. I still have a few HK friends who 'look me up' in London, because the Chinese can be very loyal. (It's different with Japanese people who will drop you when it's inconvenient.) I can see how the "dream" is missing now. There was always the real possibility of making a huge financial success and many did. Maybe that looks more remote now.
When my grandpa's younger brother worked under the table at luk kwok gloucester fifty years ago, within twelve months the owner became good friends with him, took him to Sweden to manage his hotel holdings there, and BOOM! Three years later he was a multi millionaire. These days, you could work until you were 80, 90 as a temp worker at a five-star and no-one would even notice you
what it boils down to is this hong kong is very very fast paced and most of the time the ppl are just simply maxxed out,,and they simply don't have time to deal with bullshit,one of the things you'll notice especially in restaurants and fast food joints,they just wanna take your order swiftly then get you your food ,you gotta understand rent is EXTREMELY high there so they need a constant flow of ppl,then you come along speaking english ,then turn and speak perfect chinese,i mean thats just simply taking the piss,am i wrong??
Is the Hong Kong pace as fast as Shenzhen?
It's faster in some ways.
This is nonsense. Hong Kongers are the slowest walking people on earth. They got all the time in the world to just walk around and do shopping. They're not busy by any standards.
Go work in America if you want to see what being truly busy with work looks like.
Being fast paced is an illusion created by the high populaton density in HK. Hong Kongers are also among the rudest people I've come across. They lack compassion and have child-like manners.
+Vertie HKers walk fast..you obviously know shit about HK and thought the truckloads of mainland chinese tourists who has time to go shopping in your tourist districts are local HKers, dumb as fuck....America is a land of slow moving, lazy ass, overweight, every other day is a sick day, I need a break every 5 minute low productivity country compare to the East...stop living in your dream..you're probably living in the 1950s..those days are gone, buddy
They are moody but that does not mean they're bad. Ever got attacked there? do you feel safe there? these are the fundamental questions. You can face and experience the nicest people in the world but their intensions are not always good:)
I believe the majority of hong kongers respect mainland people. There are always a minority who are rude, but every country has rude people right?
Tushay Dan. We weren't faced with ill manners speaking Mandarin Chinese so 🙃
Dan C. every country has variety of bad and good apples so it's not good to change people
no way! i dont respect chinese
the truth hurts. if you're local Eric, you understand my comment is true. it's ok to let the world know hk people are alot like American's. we're proud of who we are and the world has to accept it.
I think it all depends on who you ask ?? Most Hkers understand mandarin 'cos it's part of their second tongue language other than english !!! Everybody that went to school in Hong Kong must take and a mandarin language course somehow, but if you're chinese and can't speak cantonese then they kind'a wonder if you're from the mainland or from a foreign country??? They have biased for mainlanders 'cos they are rude and 好霸地!!!!
Growing up in Hong Kong, the locals are actually nice people, especially the younger generation, since we have better education that practices languages and respect. I see young people giving their seats to elderly on mtr on my way to school daily; I see a lady who picked up my lost mtr card and returned it to me; I see a taxi driver offered to send me to school for free when I was late and rushing in the rain. There are many little things that make me proud of being born in here.
On the other hand, some older generations or people who come from mainland to work in HK, have lower English level (some not all), so they are more comfortable with speaking in Chinese, and hence might be seen as more snobbish to foreigners.
Like some have commented, HK people are surviving rather than living, and their "happiness" rate and economic status are also quite low in comparison with the past due to political events. This has become a factor that makes HK people seem "rude" because we are sad and stressed. Talking fast has become a habit of ours as it is a kind of "city syndrome(?)", but all in all we are nice on the inside.
Elizabeth Matsuu I could see what you described when I was in this nice city 😁
The younger generation is so nice. Look at how nicely they have decorated the city 🤣
I don't think so at all. Hongkong people have become more and more angry toward mainland Chinese for some political reasons.
I am from Singapore and have been to Hong Kong for more than 10 times. If you speak cantonese, they are one of the friendliest people.
isn't that racist or at least discriminating? the way you'll be treated depends on the language you speak....damn
Clariza Cran, I don't think so. I always learn a bit of the language when I travel, even it's just simple as good morning and how are you. People are always happy to hear naive language. It shows that you're trying to learn their culture.
Mate, it's like you going to France and speak English to a Frenchman, ofc they're gonna be less nice as opposed to when you speak French (their language) with them.
That's not true
Don't think so. They are rude even when you speak native Cantonese to them. They are inherently rude but they don't realise that.
i speaked Chinese at a worker in mcdonalds in HK, requesting that i needed a cup of water (which was free), she gave a a dirty look and said "NO more la" Then my friend(who was british) asked, the worker smiled and gave a a cup of water.
Whatever language u use they will be rude anyway 😂😂😂
Don't judge a place by just a small part of it please.
only sometimes because we speak english
Not to lie as a hongkonger i dont think many of them are courteous
Even when we speak Cantonese
Monkeyking8596 actually, I've been to many parts pf hong kong and they were all rude..but yes there are always kind people
You pay five stars price and you get only 3 stars quality in Hong Kong. Go Bali, go thailand, go japan. You will know the value of penny.
LOL, you think you've paid 5 star prices? In Hong Kong, your five star prices aren't even worth 2 stars.
This is a very interesting theory that I've tried and tested for myself. I'm from Singapore and I've been to Hong Kong for more than 30 times over the course of the past decade or so. Since many Singaporeans like myself are ethnically Chinese and bilingual (in English and Mandarin Chinese), I've definitely been faced with some subtle discrimination (al beit rarely) when I spoke Mandarin Chinese (many middle-aged or slightly older HKers will immediately assume you're from China just because you speak Mandarin Chinese & based off your appearance) as opposed to English. Of course many people in Hong Kong are more fluent in Mandarin Chinese than in English and you get things done wayyy faster, but the best is to speak Cantonese (if you can) and attempt to pass off as being local.
By the way based on your Mandarin Chinese accent, I think you are from Taiwan?? Like most other Singaporeans my Chinese dialect is 閩南語 or what you call in Taiwan 台語 (it's almost the same dialect), so I can't speak Cantonese either. Hahah I definitely had an easier time in Taiwan though because Taiwanese people tend to switch between Mandarin Chinese and 台語 quite often. At times I really felt sort of "at home" in Taiwan because everyone around me was speaking in a dialect that is also commonly used in Singapore and also one that I could actually understand.
但總體而言我本身還是覺得台灣的本地人比較友善、比較有禮貌！銷售員、保安人員、計程車司機，在問路的時候啊什麼的，本地人都會讓旅客感到賓至如歸的感覺。
而且讓我感到意外驚喜的是，台灣市區的公共廁所都還蠻乾淨的。去過中國大陸的人應該知道，那裡的廁所衛生環境根本比不過台灣。。
I'm Hmong-American and speak Mandarin fluently. I've travelled to HK several times in the last 10 years and I can totally tell you I get better treatment when I speak English vs. Mandarin. My Cantonese isn't great but I can get by understand some of it and can say a few words here and there if I need to. My wife is from Chongqing and last time we went to HK together, I told her to speak English with the sales staff at the mall and she said she got treated better. Now the question is, can the HK locals distinguish native English speakers.
看台灣節目總是把香港服務形容的很誇張，但這個實測讓我感覺沒有想像中的糟，其實還算不錯了，畢竟香港人口密度高節奏快
+Debby Zhou 哈哈是吧！我沒去過以前以為會像其他人說的一樣很誇張, 但親自體驗之後其實還好
Debby Zhou 我的經驗是去買曲奇餅，上面寫限購兩大盒，我朋友排我前面用普通話詢問嘗試買兩大盒餅，竟然被拒絕，只能買1大1小，講了幾次都沒用，該我時，他先用廣東話問我，我搖頭，然後再用普通話問我，我也搖頭，然後我故意用手指示成功拿到兩大盒...有些地方還是有差的。
倒也不能說完全沒有這類事的發生，但總的來說，不要把少部分的經驗或人當成常態。
Hecter 777 哈，我想有時是因爲溝通不了，難以解釋就算吧，好像本應有些事是規定不能的，不懂用英文解釋，那麼便隨便讓他做好了。
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Been to hong kong last year and saw with my own eyes how a person in front of me speaks Mandarin (accent from Mainland china) and was rudely received by the guard but when it's my turn to ask for directions in English the guard suddenly got self conscious and became polite to me....
i'm in hong kong right now ... yes !!! people here are rude
tetschua Only some. It's not fair to judge hongkongers as a whole
Sakio™ BEATZ ya.. i knw how tht feels... been there.. got tht.. i guess maybe their live in a fast pace society.. they dun have time to b polite..
Andrea Tsang I don't think it's just "some" of them. For example, if you have a bad experience in a shop, you will generally say that shop owner is rude. You won't say the people over here are rude. Face it, even some Hong Kongers they themselves mentioned they found the society to be generally "impatient". Not every Hong Kongers are rude but the culture is "fast paced". (Coming from a person who lives in an extremely fast paced yet still friendly society)
Sakio™ BEATZ im hongkong and im kind af
Yes,in fact it's true but only some ..btw some ppl in HongKong ,will charge you more if you are not Cantonese ...it's the truth ?i have experience it a few times edi,it's better to learn it before you go there
if you're gonna test it out in a fair way, try asking the same person in two occasions: one english and one mandarin.. now this is more valid test
As with any societies, there are bound to be some bad apples. Some Hongkongers are well mannered and some are rude and bad-tempered. My first time in HK was marred by a bad encounter. I was angrily scolded by an elderly taxi driver when I asked him to stop at a certain section of a road because it was forbidden to alight there. In Malaysia we can literally request taxi drivers to stop anywhere. Those Hongkongers that beat up Mandarin speaking people were people afflicted with psychotic and antisocial disorders.
Dude, if you tell a taxi driver to alight at a yellow line, he might as well get fined with hundreds of dollars. Many jobs in Hong Kong have low wages, you're basically telling him to lose his salary. Hypocrite
dude!srsly it is just culture,it is no positive or negative,it is just another side!
they are poor and they work very hard! if you know cantonese well and you know their lives well(like my dad) you can actually put up a nice conversation
@maxdc4047
Maybe it’s the stress of living in a inhumane tiny apartments.
I've lived in Hong Kong all my life and I feel as if people here are just getting ruder and ruder!
Some HKers in the comments say that they treat ppl from Mainland very rudely because most Mainlanders have bad manners, so these people gotta prepared? Are you fking kidding me? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Last time when me and my best friend (she's from Mainland) were in HK, she asked the retail clerks questions politely, and some clerks (mostly the young ones) always gave the rude and impatient attitude (The store was not busy at all). And when I spoke English or Cantonese (My mom is from Guangdong, so I speak Cantonese) I never got this kind of attitude. I asked her to speak English instead, and she chose not to, even though she speaks fluent English. So if manners matter so much to you HKers, can you explain why some of you treat ppl differently by where they're from? Or Is this the kind of "manner" that you believe in? My friend was well-educated and have great manners, and she didn't do anything wrong. And to some of the people who act this way in HK, if you can just split 20% of the passion of you serving white ppl to serve Asian ppl better you'll definitely have less complaining customers, and HK will be a much more attractive place to visit.
People in Taiwan have more reasons to hate Mainlanders, while I've never seen them having such an attitude to my friends when we were in Taipei, even if they could clearly tell that she's from Mainland (they have different accent) because they asked her which city in Mainland she's from. So kudos to the Taiwanese on this one.
Note: To those of you haters, no need to flip out on me, and don't try to convince me to hate Mainlanders (I do know that some of them are really rude). I understand not all HKers are like that, and most HK ppl are very nice ppl. But when I saw this kind of shit a couple of times, it just ridiculed me. In America, you may get sued if you treat your customer this way. You guys can learn a lot from the customer service in Taiwan. Please don't reply me if you're just trying to start a debate. I'm just telling the truth, if you don't like it, leave the internet and live your life.
Well..."If you speak English, they'd treat you nice," is commonly misunderstood. Reason 1) some of them don't know English well. So, they'd just use whatever they have learned (from school) to reply you. So, they seem "nicer" to you. Since there aren't "attitude words", such as "ah, ga, la, ba,..." in English, you can't figure out their attitude like in Mandarin/Cantonese. HK ppl just have the impatient attitude going on most of the time. Even when I speak Cantonese to them, I didn't receive the kind of politeness I receive from the US or Taiwan on a daily basis. Reason 2) There are many news about Mainlanders pooped on the street, in the mall, inside the bus in front of everyone, they tend to generalize Mainlanders. Reason 3) Political issue: I think you'd get it. One time, me and my friend from the US visited HK, I told her to speak Mandarin at the luxury store. She refused and spoke Cantonese. She was almost ignored by the staff there. The reality is now people welcome Mandarin (= money).
As u said, I've heard lots of concerns from friends from the mainland when I studies English in Malaysia. They showed me nasty feeling when I said even I've been to Hong Kong. They told me" we don't like Hong Kong anymore. We've seen many footages some Hong Kongners attempted to assault tourists from mainland. Also, We've seen huge number of comments with full of hate from Hong Kong netizens. U Japanese people are really polite even we don't have good relationship as the countries. But HK isn't. They're more aggressive towards us than even Taiwanese. " I really suprised how anti mainland sentiment in Hong Kong is getting serious after China oppressed umbrella revolution and democracy in Hong Kong. I'm not pro-China communist and I really hate unacceptable behaviour by bunch of group tourists and some as*holes from mainland. In addition, I really hope the success of Hong Kong independence or reunification with United Kingdom too. However, this doesn't mean I support to hate all mainlanders and harass people who speak Mandarin with mainland accent. All mainlanders who I've met are really polite, educated ,diligent and calm unlike some Japanese. I felt really shame as Japanese because most Japanese in Malaysia came for playing around and not try to blend in the local community . All mainlanders are f*ckers and non- Chinese people are good? I don't think so. I know not all Hong Konger are violent or rude. People are people after all. I really love HK as the one country. Thank u.
the reason is very clear: many Hongkongese cannot afford to buy apartment and house in hongkong, while more and more mainland Chinese buy houses in HK, Hongkongese feel hopeless.
I agreed🙋
Many Hongers just hate mainlanders in general. If you start a conversation by speaking Mandarin, they assume you're a mainlander.
When I stayed in HongKong for almost a month to pursue intensive Fashion Classes. I had a great time. I wouldn't consider hongkongers to be rude... rather I think they just value time very much like gold and they are always busy. I think people from hongkong are nice and some of them would smile a lot too. Most of where I went is at Sheung Wan, Central, Causeway bay and Sham Shui Po maybe different people have different experiences. I lost 3,000 US Dollars but it was returned to me after 5 days when I looked for it at the airport.
Travelled to Hong Kong a lot of times for SAT during my high school, spoke Mandarin and always got super friendly help from locals! For a lot of times they even took me to the places I asked about! As a mainlander I always love how welcoming most Hong Kong people are! 😘
Rosie Xu no...most of Hong Kong ppl are hate main lander so much, please get out of our city.
Lai Yi Tam
Enjoy your freedom while you can! Only 30 years left before the Hong Kong flag is replaced by the Chinese flag 🇨🇳
[Insert Name Here] let's see.... I bet u already died
Lai Yi Tam i bet you are one of those loser doesn't make any contribution to the society but only barking all the time. and btw, hk is always a city of China, no one can't change, because China is too strong, no other countries or person on this planet can change this.
Hong Kong folks are just rude and I'm Chinese. Although I was born and raised here, I've lived in HK and speak it pretty fluently. They're rude to me no matter what. And in the states, I goto a local dim sum place they're rude to me too. LOL. We just some rude people.
Don’t assume everyone there is rude
Do u know everyone who’s Chinese? I don’t think so.
And you’re the one being rude here🤷♀️
you can’t just assume they’re rude like that. hong kong people are efficient and handle things quick. this is a fast paced city and that’s why they’re grumpy sometimes if you arent following the same pace. they dont have a second to waste.
Hello everyone, i want to say that my dad comes from Hong Kong but my Mother was grown up in Vietnam and her parents are from China Chaozhou, but my brother and i were born in Austria now i'm 16 and not all hong kongers are rude
We were often in Hong Kong and i know that not all people in HK are rude/mean maybe some people but every country has rude people, and my brother and i mostly speak german together. We were grown up in Austria but we have Hong Kong - Chinese Blood and we have manners, i'm thankful for everything and we (my family) are nice . I know if you have built shit you've to apologize and if you rude sometimes… no matter where you come from or who you are, there are always people who hate you or are mean/rude to you even if you're nice
That's true. It's a shame that there are those rude people out there ruining the fame of HK for all HK people.
When you begin to defend Hong Kong and it’s people, I wonder if you read Chinese, can you read some of the comments written by Hong Kongers here?
There are bad apples everywhere but are you aware of the sheer hate some Hong Kongers possess just because you’re born in China?
They gonna blame it on their society they gonna blame it on politics, but when your mainstream media herald the ‘bravery’ of your own ppl for literally assaulting mainland tourists, there’s something very wrong with your culture. And I have every reason to call it a very rude and disgusting society.
There's also something very wrong with a culture that beats up Hong Kong journalists for inquiring into building safety standards in Sichuan. Even worse when Hong Kong's own government won't defend Hong Kong values, but prefer to lick China's toes and make excuses for such barbarity.
The main reason behind was neither mandarin, nor english. Most people in hong kong speak Cantonese! You find them rude simply because you don't understand canto. Basically you don't understand the language and then you read their responses as rudeness. This is like I insist to speak in french in England, and I then call the British rude just simply because no one understands me? It doesn't make sense, right? In fact, most of their responses were just daily conversations. To be honest, they didn't use any rude words at all in their sentences.
Don't ask a local for directions most of them will ignore you if you need directions ask a shopkeeper or the MTR staff they are quite helpful.
I've been there a few days ago thats true
I speak manderain in Hong Kong. People are nice to me , I don't feel anything uncomfortable. All the conflict started from those fuckin politicians
I went to Hong Kong to get my Canadian visa in 2003. I spoke Mandarin to Hong Kongers. The experience was unpleasant. No desire to go back and visit there!
Thanks and pls don’t come anymore!
去年五月我終於第一次去了香港，去之前也是被一直洗腦香港的服務態度不會太好，點餐猶豫太久甚至可能被店員兇，所以去之前我們都做好了心理準備。但實際去了之後，感覺其實沒想像中糟糕，他們的服務方式是比較著急講求效率，但不至於讓人覺得傲慢無禮，我甚至有碰到願意跟我們多閒聊兩句的店員... 4天下來整體而言我覺得是OK的啦~
I only spoke in English when I went to Hongkong many, many years ago, and the men in an airport shop were really rude. When you just looking at their display, they want you to buy their goods straight away. Of course I did not, and they were so rude. A number of times I stopped over in Hongkong during my trips, and observe people's faces, nobody ever smile.
Grew up overseas and go back to hk every so often, and I do have the sense that people get colder every time I come back, i think rather than saying they're rude, its more like a lot of people think there's no time to be nice, and there is absolutely a minimal amount of people who will specifically go out of their way to help someone else.
I think the older generation is somewhat prejudice towards anyone that speaks Mandarin since most Mandarin speakers were from Mainland China. Back in the days, other than Cantonese, English was the second language, not Mandarin. But in todays younger to middle generation, more HK folks have learned Mandarin in school (required by the government), so there are more people that know Mandarin more so than English. Just like in France, a lot of folks have learned English as a second language and are extremely fluent, they would just prefer that you speak to them in French or at least try to when first communicating. Once they figure out you are not a native French speaker (but tried speaking French) and realize that you know English, they usually are very open to start speaking in English to you. Same goes for HK when it comes to speaking Cantonese, English and Mandarin.
Haha classic! Even my Singaporean Chinese friend told me about this phenomena. She said her colleagues actually received the bad treatment upon speaking in mandarin, but better treatment when in English. What the heck? Lol. Really dumb if you ask me.
Oh man... honestly I didn't notice different treatments or service received speaking English or Chinese but then again, they say my accent is distinctly Taiwanese 🤔
Regardless of speaking Chinese or English, my personal experience in HK have concluded that some of the local hongkonger kind of rude especially taxi drivers and those work in retail line. Either they will show you faces or they will blame on you for the things you don't know. Been there twice and I don't think I will go back again.
stylecuratedby taxi drivers in HK are rude right?! Glad to know it’s not just me LOL
Haha, I have done similar things, I will speak English, Mandarin, Cantonese, their attitude will really be different. Hong Kong is more free than the mainland, but his people are closed. They do not understand the changes in the mainland society.Therefore, even if I and they have a similar Lingnan cultural background and the same mother tongue, I still look down on most of the people of Hong Kong. Lol
I live in Shenzhen, just next to Hong Kong
Sorry manilanders are still backwards. Yes HK people can be snobbish but its them who are more civilised.
Yes, big changes in China's society, like even more clamp down on freedom of speech, increasing technological surveillance of expression and movement, thuggish tactics against perceived enemies, increasing pressure to express blind subservience to the party, and oh let's not forget unlimited terms of power for the dictator. Such progress.
+FleshRebellion so let’s just conveniently choose to ignore that a billion people were lifted out of poverty in the span of three decades. No one in China is starving anymore like they used to and the majority of young people gain university level educations. People now have the disposable income to raise pets and take care of stray dogs and cats, as well as travel. There’s a push for environmental conservation and for a decrease in carbon emissions. The attitudes in China have changed drastically even in the last decade, humanitarianism is on the rise and many are choosing to pursue the arts. My friend, that IS progress and choosing to ignore it makes you sound very close-minded. Political change will come slowly and in a way that benefits Chinese society, the Chinese understand that an upheaval of the political system would lead to chaos in China. No matter what outsiders say, the Chinese know what’s best for them for the time being.
Valerie Ssk How rose tinted. Deng Xiaopeng's policy helped by HK and Taiwan investors lifted China out of abject poverty. Xi Jinping is reviving Mao style clamp downs and political purges. Just as economic changes happened with lightning speed, social mores are also changing extremely rapidly. The disturbing amount of blind nationalistic fervour is sweeping across China when a few years ago it was unfashionable to do so. There continue to be workers in the lower classes conveniently moved about and deported between cities when workers are needed, and sent back to whichever villages either because of economic declines in some sectors (a worldwide phenomenon) or political expediencies (like Olympic games and such face lifting events), infinitely worsened by the hukou system which institutionalises the inequities of the capitalist market.
It is so depend on which person you are talking to, it is because some of the people don't like to speck or maybe busy. Second, most of the people in Hong Kong are willing to speak English and Cantonese, not a lot of citizens will like to speak Mandarin to others if not necessary. I am a HongKongese and I would like to help everybody when they come over for questions. I think this is kind of a personal habit or what they too used to what they act as the way they lived or maybe they just speak loud because of the working area.
im a taiwanese american studying in Hong Kong and so far ive been lucky to have encountered ppl who knows english whenever im asking for help. Tho it does help to speak Mandarin when talking to older people and gets things done a lot faster
Cantonese was spoken in the Chin Dynasty. Confucius lectured his pupiles in Cantonese. Cantonese was widely used in the Tong Dynasty. Cantonese was spreaded in Guangzhou after the Chin soldiers conquered the region.
to my travelling experiences in hong kong,the peoples' manner were even worst during the colonial times,somehow there was improvment after the financial crisis 2008,but as a whole still way behind taiwan,japan,s'pore or even many asean countries .
Nothing can change their manners
I recently traveled to Hong Kong and I was honestly so excited as it was my first time being in Asia because all I ever knew was being an Asian-American in the Midwest. When I arrived, I definitely noticed how the people treated me. I grew up speaking some Cantonese, but because I’m learning Mandarin in school, my Mandarin skills have significantly surpassed my Cantonese skills, so I always tried to communicate in Cantonese, Mandarin, and/or English. The people weren’t necessarily rude, but just in a hurry to get on with their own lives. After visiting Hong Kong, I traveled to Taiwan and loved the people and environment of Taiwan so much more than HK. Even with my broken Mandarin skills, (most) people are much more willing to help than in HK.
I was there in 1992. It was the most unfriendly City I have ever been to! I met some Filipina OFW's and they treated me like I was in their home, and they took me to restaurants and showed me around and they were just workers there. How nice of them!
Ive travelled to hong kong once and i found out the people there actually are so nice. Especially the younger generations. Once there is a young disabled man try to bring me to the place that i wanted to go and i was so surprised yet thankful as i didn’t realized that he was a disabled at first. The people there also explained everything whenever i asked them and i think it all depends on how you perceived things and your perception towards people
3:40 That's a pretty inconsiderate thing to ask honestly. If I were there server, I would've told you all, "Ma'am, our kitchen staff is not going to change their operating tempo simply because you are unable to manage your time appropriately." Lol!
Cantonese is always the best option in Hong Kong. even if you only know some basic phrases .
BTW, when you speak mandarin , we don’t respond so well ,simply because many of us DO NOT speak and DO NOT understand mandarin good enough.
Not because the discrimination!
I'm from Hong Kong and I would say that we are not rude people. We just have very stressful, fast-paced lives from the long working hours and the massive amount of people everywhere really crank people up. I myself also get annoyed really easily during the busy weekdays and usually couldn't be bothered by others. Perhaps u might be in the wrong place at the wrong time to get that outcome. Perhaps during the weekend, people will be nicer? You need to understand that 90% people u encountered are probably in a rush so thats why they are moody or something
hongkies are one of the rudest ppl you can meet. even between close friends, they will to 'chuen' each other. the words they use are inflamatory, rude, insensitive and not courteous and meant to insult.
Ms IrisVirus do you know why Cantoneses is considered " Tong Language " because it was widely used in the Tong Dyasty. Manderine is just a mixture of nomads' languages created after Manchurians conquered China.
As long as you are polite, Hong Kong people are not going to be rude. The problem sometimes with mainlanders visitors are they are rude so the response is rude from people.
i never think ,that hong kong people is polite ，especially to mainland chinese .seems hong kong Social Issues made by china.some people abuse china public and some attack Chinese children and woman.
This is a cowardly action！！
elaine mo i faced so many time responsibilities place of hongkong.they are rude behaviour every hk ppl hat and showing bad behaviour with mainland ppl because they are simple kind and unfashionable
Elaine Mo - yes totally agree. Many rude mainland Chinese flooding in HK and they are so rude. People in HK just fed up and being nice!
timothwc2 - sadly yes many HKers now are from mainlands and they don't behave and thats why the real HKers don't like their behaviour and twisted logic. May be those who told you they were HKers were actually from mainland in the South... Many of them like to lie about their origin. Sadly.
Bottom line - HK is fucking sad.
Sadly, the tourists and expats will continue saying this is such a east-meets-west paradise. Too bad you will only see it this way, IF you can afford to live in a different country every three months. Let's put it this way, if I went to India for leisure, I'd be able to live like a king too. But that doesn't mean I'm not aware that a vast majority of the people over there are living in hell. Which is exactly the same situation in HK.
Basically, if you can't just pack your bags and move to another country, you are FUCKED FUCKED FUCKED in this age of Globalization.
well they are going to know you are from taiwan instead of the mainland because of your accent. i dont see why they would treat taiwanese as rude as mainlanders.
personally i was quite surprised by the lack of english in hong kong. i might aswell speak chinese while i am there, people barely knew any english. its not a criticism i just expected something different due to the countrys history and the fact that english is an official language. great place anyway.
Yea I wasn't really aware of my own accent being distinct enough to tell lol But honestly, I'm quite impressed with the level of English here in Hong Kong especially when you compare it with other nearby countries
people in hong kong have better vocabs thats for sure, if you try to converse with them in english they will be throwing out related vocabs and 9 out of 10 times you'll be able to guess what they're trying to say, gammer on the other hand is a different story
IrisVirus your accent is too obvious it's defiantly Taiwanese. Next time try Beijing accent and you will definitely get a different result. REMEMBER TO USE MAINLAND VOCAB like 普通話 I noticed you used 國語 which is something mainlanders would not say
Taiwanese ppl seems to be more open and less loud compare to mainlanders, especially how they talk and their manners are different. They know when they sit on a MTR that one person equals one seat and not try to occupy or steal a seat from you.
they behave quite differently.
真心唔明你攪咩春？
yuisanjpearthquake 我真心不知道你们滴港愤整天想着赶而不知道去教，赶不走可以教化噶
In thé asian country where the social hypocrisy was the most priority of the conception.
phil phil look down your mouth we do not welcome the people like you
phil phil From what language did you Google translate these from?
phil phil learn to speak english first
Hi, I have a question, I am visiting hongkong this year, does locals speak English? Thanks
I had a few problems near causeway bay with people ignoring me. Tung Chung was way better with hikers saying hello and things. Mainlander tourists at Avenue of stars responded to me even though they didn't know English. HK police are friendly too
Yes! I found their police officers quite friendly and helpful! Can't disagree with you on the people ignoring part.. but I rather believe that they just didn't hear me or have fears speaking to strangers lol
i don't think they are rude because you use putonhua, it's because some mainlanders are bossy and lack of manners. I've been in HK many times, and people is nice to me and to my mandarin speaking friends.
Ye very valid point Helsic! I'm with you on this one!
HK is one of my favorite cities in the world ^^
Finally! Someone who understands HK ppl! A lot of comments are starting to make my blood boil
you gotta experience the city and the culture to be able to form an opinion, luckily for me, I have been living in mainland China for 4 years now and I had the chance to visit HK so many times and the cultural differences are huge.
You don't look Chinese so they're nice to you. I'm Taiwanese Canadian, and I get shitty service all the time. Service-wise: Taiwan>China>HK; but China is rapidly catching up to Taiwan and I've notice a fall in service quality in Taiwan whenever I go back home.
OMG I had to post before I even finish this video! It's true! I've been to HK too many times. First few times I went there I spoke mandarin and got some HARSH treatments. Not even slightly rude, just HARSH. Once I was at the HK airport and went to a ground staff to ask where my gate was. I said excuse me in mandarin and she ignored me. So I said it 2 more times and she still ignored me. And then I had to approach her and tap on her shoulder to get attention. She immediately shook my hand off of her shoulder and said "I'm busy!" with a strong attitude and pretended to make a phone call and quickly walked away. That was the first time I've seen anybody be so rude to me in public. And it was her job to help me too! Man I was shook! So after that every time I go I only speak English, pretend that I'm not from mainland. It's so pathetic! I love the city and all, but some people I went for help were super rude to me, not just this one time. People say that mainland Chinese are rude but that's not true, most people are friendly and would help you if they can. A lot of old ladies are rude tho lol, but at least they don't give you different treatments. No matter you speak English or Chinese, they're equally rude to you. I somehow feel better from the equal rudeness than the double standard lol. Of course not all HK people are like that, a lot of other people I met were really friendly. Overall I still recommend going to HK! They have the greatest food ever!
They are very cruel and can be physically abusive too. They discriminate mainlanders the most.
Hong Kong people are now nicer comapred to the old days. They are polite to give you attention compared to Singaporean who can speak English but rude.
Elysah Sanvel I am a mainland Chinese living in Singapore for good....Fair to say...I think Singaporeans are way much better in terms of how they treat foreigners...hk is never a place that i want to visit.
uh...I'm an overseas chinese but my parents are from mainland and I've been to both countries....Singaporeans are definitely much more polite than hong kong people for me
Singapore is definitely a place with no soul, it’s so sterile and dullllll. No freedom of speech no democracy whatsoever even China mainland is much more free. HK is much more interesting, edgy, cool and fun to live. They have real culture not some kind of a artificial culture pushed by the gov. I prefer HK any day. HK media/news/entertainment is so much more vibrant because of free press.
Huehue Singaporean here to defend ourselves. Every country has its good and its bad and Singapore has so many friendly people and of course we have some rude people. But which country doesn't have rude people? Feel free to tour Singapore some day or another ^^
Sry but I would say hong kongers will always n forever be the same because they dont accept criticize towards them. And pls dont compare singaporean to HK, been to both countries singaporean definitely much better than HKers.
I think you should go around HK for the experiment because some districts are busy and some are not. People always testing this kind of experiment just in busy places. And observe that HK people are busy. People in my district are kind of relax and helpful
I hold a SG passport at the age of 2. I lived in HK until Secondary school. Then moved to SG for O and A's. Followed by Uni in UK. Any questions, feel free to ask (in a polite manner).
I'm a British born Hong Kong, I sometimes have to use Cantonese and English. What I find is that when I use English, they seem a little more friendlier at times, but when at restaurants where it's more busy, they tend to rush you, I think it's because there's just too many people and they want to quickly clean the table and get someone else to use the table to eat.
Yes I have to agree, knowing Chinese gets things done faster!
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If u understand how hard the life of hk people is,You will understand why hk people had no patience to everything and rude to everyone. Everyone here is unhappy.
But I do not expect tourists to understand this before they come and visit hk, just let them think what they think.
Honestly, I gotta say I don't see much difference other than people who are approached with English speaking as wanting to back away first. This is pretty typical in every majority non-English speaking country I have visited, Hong Kong included. The idea that I and my friends have come up with is that English being a second or possible third language for many of those who do speak it is not as fluent and widely understood so they aren't able to practice with natives in their home nation, thus, they may be embarrassed or put on the spot and fumble around with the words a bit. I do the same when I am forced to speak Swedish, Hebrew, Spanish, or French myself. But no, I see no differences other than that in this video. Quite frank, Im so accustomed to this behavior of people when I speak English that it hasn't really bothered me.
i experienced how rude and uneducated most them are. a female vendor pushed me and shouted at me just because i didnt buy her goods. it is the worst experience and vacation that i ever had.
I went to HK a couple of years ago for a holiday and the people were so rude! If you speak English people will literally walk away from you. Whilst I enjoyed parts of my holiday the people in general were not friendly or helpful at all. Lessons learnt I will be learning some Japanese before going to Japan next year.
I'm Hong Kong and we respect both
honestly speaking cantonese is a language that DOESN'T sound sweet and easy-flowing compared to languages such as english and french. It's a language that is more rough in a sense? Hence why people think that cantonese people may sound rude unless you do know the language (I'm cantonese so lol) and when they speak mandarin the accent isn't good so it sounds rough and rude but in reality it isn't.. trust me.
Cherie Yang I don’t think so....If u use a polite tone, Cantonese wouldn’t sound rude. I’m Cantonese as well
Guy, I speak Cantonese and I still feel like I'm getting yelled at. That lady in the restaraunt? Sounded like my mom giving me shit. Just reminds me of downtown L.A
Cherie Yang . I'm Cantonese myself but not HK. Cantonese people are mostly rude especially in HK. Can you people speak slowly so it doesn't sound rude at all? I'm glad that mainland speak putonghua . The white make fun of Cantonese all the time but you Cantonese doesn't have a guts to speak up!
Wen Chen not saying everyone is polite in HK, but politeness differs greatly across cultures. It's unhelpful telling people to just stop being rude when they don't even realize talking briskly is considered rude for some cultures. Being direct and effective with your language is perfectly acceptable for most HKers. And so what if Westerners make fun of Cantonese (if that even happens at all)? Such behavior would only show a lack of understanding and appreciation of local culture; speakers of Cantonese have nothing to prove. And finally, Cantonese is inextricably tied with HK identity and has a rich history - the average HKer has no desire for it to be replaced by Mandarin.
In my experience, they're not necessarily nicer to Mandarin speaking folks. They are just more able to communicate w/ them. It depends where you go in HK. If you go to the mall, especially higher end places like Lane Crawford or East Tsim Sha Tsui area where there are fancy hotels, staff working there treat you better if you speak English than when you speak Mandarin. If you go to more local places where people don't really know English, they either avoid you or walk away because they seem to be more avoidant to interact w/ English speakers. Also I understand Cantonese so I hear a lot of local HK people make fun or talk negatively about mainland Chinese.
I am Korean and visited HK 3 mouths ago , mandarin is more widely used than before , but I don’t speak it and my English is also bad , People in HK can identify Korean as the accent , and they treat us nice )))
As a local, to be blunt
1. If you're an ABC, you better speak fluent Cantonese/Mandarin or locals will judge you differently.
2. The English level in Hong Kong is extremely low or next to non existent as all service industry people are mainland people. 😁
3. It also depends on which area you go to visit...HK island, Kowloon, or New Territories. HK island has the better English speaking locals.
4. It also depends on your skin colour. if your mainlander you would be ok depending on the location you visit; Caucasians are usually ok they just give you an English menu and you poke around the menu for the items you want to eat; ABC well..either you don't speak Cantonese or Mandarin fluently then your fucked. We judge you differently as "why can't you learn either language properly". At least speak the language fluently if you can't read/write it".
5. HKers are a tough crowd and we know it. We're pretty much the Asian version of U.S.A., rude and cocky.
fcnghkkc1 you're the only person that sees America that way. Ask anyone from around the world and people will often say people from the US are very kind and open to conversation. Chinese people on the other hand, they are terrible tourists and even worse mainlanders.
Christian Fabien Americans are known to be open and friendly, Westerners in general really. But as an American, I must say that we're too patriotic for our own good and lowkey pretty fkin racist lmao.
mchann ya that's very true, at least the patriotic part. The truth is the only parts that are really racist are the south and it's dying slowly not to mention most foreigners don't go to the south anyways.
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Woovil87 :: Dude, Hong Kong was a former British colony, why couldn't they think that they were British....was never meant to be China in the first place.
Video well done. I also believe that's a myth. I was told same thing on my first trip and only spoke English in HK for a while. Till once I asked for direction in a MTR station in Chinese and the lady was super nice.
第一个餐馆的你这样测试当然会被人不喜欢啊
Actually... we can tell if they are from the mainland china before they speak. Very easy... i don’t know how to explain but it is super easy for us to tell.
Some kids who cross the border every day to study in Hong Kong, wearing hong kong school uniform... etc... but I can also recognise them from a big group of other local students.
Even if u speak native cantonese to me, I can also tell if u are from hong kong or Guangzhou.
But it doesn’t matter... we can differentiate the differences but not discriminate over them.
Sometimes you might find us rude, but maybe that’s because you are rude too. If you are kind, people in generally treat you nice.
A lot of people think they’re rude most of the time because of the way they talk, I was born in an English speaking country but my family speaks cantonese and my parents are not very fluent in English but they know mandarin very well because they are from Guangdong, but cantonese as a whole is a really sharp language and it doesn’t flow the same way mandarin does. People from hong kong or guangdong often don’t speak the way fluent mandarin speakers do so they sound ruder because of the cantonese influence.
Very interesting experiment... the thing is.. most of the Sales you met in cosmetic store, or waitress in all the eateries are from mainland.. they prefer mandarin and of coz will react faster. However, when u come across local HKers who are not that fluent but knows basic english ( eg. the policeman, the mtr guy) they will stop and answer u in english because we learnt english and it is mandatory
Hong Kong people aren't rude. Cantonese just naturally sounds loud and rude, but that's just how the language is. Shouting is their way of marketing back in the old days and still is how they market nowadays. People are also very stressed and shy, their daily lives are already hard enough. There's no stable variable in this experiment. I have an English speaking friend and a Cantonese speaking friend and both their experiences were basically the same
What even is this video for, making no senses. Hongkong people are not rude as u think
From my experience, I observed that it is simply in their culture. They are not trying to be rude, but rather they are too impatient and do not usually want to wait for us to think and decide on our own slow pace. We visited a congee shop for four consecutive days we were there (yes it was that delicious) and it went from a fast paced, impatient ordering system to a friendly "hey, what do you want?" and wanting to know where we came from and how my boyfriend spoke Cantonese (fluent enough for them to understand, but not 100% sure it was right). At other locations we have only been to once, they are just as impatient, especially at popular food locations. At some shops that are not so crowded, when we tried to speak in English or mandarin, depending on which language they understood, they tend to be less impatient. As to countries like Japan, that a number of people mentioned as a polite country with great services, we saw and experienced Japanese who were rude once they know we were foreigners, Japanese who spit on the floor, threw rubbish on the floor, and those who pushed one another out of the way when it was crowded. There is the culture in every country, and the better or worse people who come out of the same culture. So since we are in a different country, learn their culture and see if it fits us. If it doesn't, travel to a different country in the future or try to give it a second chance before making a decision! My first trip to Japan was horrible, but my second one improved and the third was the best. My second trip to Taiwan had me experience a group of Taiwanese who might have tried cheating me of my money... so treat every trip as a learning experience. :)
Idk, ive seen alot of comments that people say hk people are rude, i dont really find that, ive never experienced that in hong kong before, except this one time my little sister went to earring store, the girls that works their were kinda rude but overall all the other store i went, they were nice to me
I have been hk many times, and i like hk, i have meet countlessbof people, some are friendly and nice people, but very high percentage are damn rude, rough, and unwilling to render help to tourist, even just asking for direction, teksi driver, waiter, waitress, 8 out of 10 are impolite.
Well , maybe is the stress level, they have to face everday.
Hope they will improve.
Love hk
I guess why the HK people don’t like mainlanders is because of the 水貨客 or whatever
Because mainlanders do not have basic manners, such as waiting in line and not pooping on the ground in public.
honestly, whatever language you speak, they'll still be rude. My dad is a mainlander but he grew up in HK before he moved to the Philippines, so whenever we go to HK, sometimes he speaks in mandarin, and sometimes he speaks in cantonese, and we just speak in english since our dad didn't taught us cantonese, but at the end of the day, they're still rude no matter what language you use. There seems to be like an unspoken rule to not speak with them for more than a minute lol or they get annoyed. And when you're in the subway and one of them accidentally bumps into you, they throw yo a dirty look even if you said sorry--even if it's THEIR fault. Maybe it's just a cultural thing. I might be stereotyping, but whatever, they stereotype mainlanders like my dad too anyway ha. Mainland chinese are rude and impolite because they are uneducated. Hong Kong people are rude and impolite because they are impatient, self-righteous, racist, and selfish.Reading the comment section just further proves that. The mainlanders are willing to admit their mistakes, but hong kong people just cuss you and start a fight with you when you tell them their mistakes. These just tell a lot about the character of hong kong people
lol. I'm from Hong Kong. Born and raised. And yes, we are rude. And we speak really loud and especially Hk netizens are uptight and not friendly.
Hi we can practice English speaking I am searching for English speaking partner
As a local we actually get used to this environment and just shout for example in a restaurant by the road we literally just go shouting out orders and also I think its really disrespectful to the waiters if u don't know what to order and call them over since they r busy so sorry If we seem rude but we just grew up to everybody saying just get it done