A total of 584 383 ethnic minorities, constituting 8.0% of the whole population in Hong Kong, were living in Hong Kong in 2016. After excluding foreign domestic helpers, the number of ethnic minorities was 263 593 in 2016, making up 3.6% of the whole Hong Kong population.
As a person of Nepalese background who grew up both in HK and UK, I've experienced more racism from cops, locals, jobs and finding accommodation than in the UK. Locals are super racist but they usually it keep it under their breath. The good news is that the younger generations are more open-minded but don't know if that will continue given the changes happening sooner than expected. Very sad indeed 😔
As someone who was born and raised in Hong Kong. I wish I could write, read and speak cantonese fluently. Growing up, my parents spoke Nepali and my friends spoke English so I had very little chance to speak Cantonese. I couldn't make friends with the Chinese kids because I couldn't speak Cantonese. In Primary I also studied in an English school so all my classmates were NCS. Now I'm in secondary and I’m trying my best to speak Cantonese but reading and writing is still very hard for me. I didn't experience a lot of racism because I kinda look Chinese. I love the culture and food here. I only understand Cantonese because I used to watch a lot of Chinese dramas in the TV when I was a kid.
What infuriate me most is that a lot of local schoolteachers also discriminate against pupils with non-Chinese background just because they have darker skin tones.
Last month I was playing basketball on a Wednesday night and the other players were discussing why a helper is able to play despite it not being a Sunday
U do know that those 8% is not all minority right? Yes there are 8% of the population is not chinese. But if u look at the gov statistics the majority of those are Indonesian and Filipino and they are short term labors. So the minority population should be around 3-4% only
Because some were raised in an English speaking environment and their friends and families only spoke English or their mother language. I understand Cantonese but it's kinda difficult for me to speak it but I am doing my best to be better in Cantonese. 😔
The guy that speaks fluent colloqial Cantonese were maybe born before 1997... and during that period of time... the education, the government, the civil service tiers.. were all , slowly created. Even before that time, there WAS actual traditional Imperial Chinese laws anyway. The question is, should it, or should it not deviate from this tradition. Cos .. because the laws were relaxed... and it created an open door policy for global finance to enter.. it caused an even worst situation. Cos these individuals got in. That is, migrant, and illegal migrants, and also refugees as well ? They got in. And then... (some of these kids... like that guy.. I am sure that he was there, cos of the armenians. There are some Armenians.. that is being confused with the other races of people as well. Cos they assume that they are Indians. And then it openes a stupid door for Indonesians.. (and tribal people)... Cos if you followed your tradition, if your parents says, don't marry just yet. You don't marry. If you don't have enough money or whatever, then you don't do it ? What these trading actions have done, is kicked open an entire sector of hidden relationships. Broken marriages. And broken businesses.. and the rest carries on. HK had one of the ultra highest population density... born out of wedlocks, and women attacked.. and raped... The highest in the world. And right now... the police types which you see today... who targets some of these people. Everybody knows who they are. And I bet you that, nobody will report it. If somebody helps somebody, then it means that... HK is one of the most incestuous place alive. If it was governed like Japan or like Korea.. this would not have happened.. Cos the people just kept saying things like..." well.. he could do it, then why can't I?"... Kind of BS. So yeh.... HK is THE only place.. if you checked everyone's DNA.. it has now 150% "commune". i.e. "Your grand uncle just had sex with your sister" kind of place. I bet these "ethnic minorities" have never known this, right ? I think it is time that, HK implemented lineage laws... imho. About time. Just like in the UK. i.e. You check to see who is who... and then make sure that they obey the law. Cos this is what happened to Japan. And South Korea. And the UK.
@@burakmehr786 : That is because those sh1tty pratts wanted a piece of the pie.. that is why they thought it was a good thing to "get the money"... but they didn't teach them anything. They just lived off the land. And those education's budgets.. and then.. when it comes to society now. They are not recruited first. Nobody hires them. (And now, most either knows Japanese, or Korean.. or even Mandarin.... and they don't compete with these people... even though they got the government's budgets.. those "cantonese kids" have fled the city already !!! Moved to Japan. Moved to South Korea. Moved to UK. Canada. The list goes on....) And this is why, you still see slums today. They got left behind. Why? Cos they didn't even bothered to read the papers. (And now in 2023.. it makes better news.. to complain about that instead.... while the world didn't stop for them.) Last I read... in SCMP ... the HK SAR Government is boycotting this separate form of budgets. And again, merging the classes and groups together... In the past, ALL schools had to learn both Cantonese/Chinese, and English. Because of the bad results... and some ethnic minorities had a better English anyway... They should've had their budgets.. but then .. when the foreign schools started to hire the local Cantonese kids.. and then these English speaking traders' kids... took the Chinese school. Yes, it looks like it is equalised to some level.. but I suppose now, it is too late. Well.. it isn't too late.. as such... they should try and find more English speaking jobs... and then let the chinese do the chinese jobs, rather than the other way round. (But they don't... cos the flood gate opened up... for the Shenzen thing to happen. Imagine.. if some of those English speakers were in control in some of those factories inside China... What would have been the outcome of that?)
The other thing which these kids might not know also.. is that, they may not be actually Indian or Indonesia... Some of them, could be Armenians too. Actually.... And when the Ottoman Empire was collapsing.. and then people flee... They did go as far as HK as well for trades... So... This is something which they need to think about. The problem with educating a very varied racial grouping is that, this specific CEO... never taught them, that child's own history, for example... And the question was.. should it not have done so as well ? Maybe they should have done so. That is the discussion which should take place...
When you have been juggling work and video editing, you start getting butter fingers and make silly mistakes. That includes the one made at 1:23, it is “will” not “wiil”!
A total of 584 383 ethnic minorities, constituting 8.0% of the whole population in Hong Kong, were living in Hong Kong in 2016. After excluding foreign domestic helpers, the number of ethnic minorities was 263 593 in 2016, making up 3.6% of the whole Hong Kong population.
As a person of Nepalese background who grew up both in HK and UK, I've experienced more racism from cops, locals, jobs and finding accommodation than in the UK. Locals are super racist but they usually it keep it under their breath. The good news is that the younger generations are more open-minded but don't know if that will continue given the changes happening sooner than expected. Very sad indeed 😔
thanks for the appreciation. We definitely feel the same way as you do. Let's hope the younger generation can continue to be open-minded.
Definitely appreciate the initiative and this deserves more views! Keep going!
thanks Oliver!
As someone who was born and raised in Hong Kong. I wish I could write, read and speak cantonese fluently. Growing up, my parents spoke Nepali and my friends spoke English so I had very little chance to speak Cantonese. I couldn't make friends with the Chinese kids because I couldn't speak Cantonese. In Primary I also studied in an English school so all my classmates were NCS. Now I'm in secondary and I’m trying my best to speak Cantonese but reading and writing is still very hard for me. I didn't experience a lot of racism because I kinda look Chinese. I love the culture and food here. I only understand Cantonese because I used to watch a lot of Chinese dramas in the TV when I was a kid.
You guys deserve way more attention than this
thanks !
I really like the Cantonese-speaking guy in this video. His personality + mindset really shined through here. Would love to be his friend xD
he's a famous local comedian in hk i think, vivek mahbubani (forgot how you spell his name), but yeah it's a given he's fluent considering his job
What infuriate me most is that a lot of local schoolteachers also discriminate against pupils with non-Chinese background just because they have darker skin tones.
Last month I was playing basketball on a Wednesday night and the other players were discussing why a helper is able to play despite it not being a Sunday
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U do know that those 8% is not all minority right? Yes there are 8% of the population is not chinese. But if u look at the gov statistics the majority of those are Indonesian and Filipino and they are short term labors. So the minority population should be around 3-4% only
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I do wonder why some minority group born or raised in Hong Kong but can't speak Chinese ?
Because prior to 2013, there was a law in HK. Ethnic Minorities only for EM school and locals only for local Chinese schools.
Because some were raised in an English speaking environment and their friends and families only spoke English or their mother language. I understand Cantonese but it's kinda difficult for me to speak it but I am doing my best to be better in Cantonese. 😔
The guy that speaks fluent colloqial Cantonese were maybe born before 1997... and during that period of time... the education, the government, the civil service tiers.. were all , slowly created. Even before that time, there WAS actual traditional Imperial Chinese laws anyway. The question is, should it, or should it not deviate from this tradition. Cos .. because the laws were relaxed... and it created an open door policy for global finance to enter.. it caused an even worst situation. Cos these individuals got in. That is, migrant, and illegal migrants, and also refugees as well ? They got in. And then... (some of these kids... like that guy.. I am sure that he was there, cos of the armenians. There are some Armenians.. that is being confused with the other races of people as well. Cos they assume that they are Indians. And then it openes a stupid door for Indonesians.. (and tribal people)... Cos if you followed your tradition, if your parents says, don't marry just yet. You don't marry. If you don't have enough money or whatever, then you don't do it ? What these trading actions have done, is kicked open an entire sector of hidden relationships. Broken marriages. And broken businesses.. and the rest carries on. HK had one of the ultra highest population density... born out of wedlocks, and women attacked.. and raped... The highest in the world. And right now... the police types which you see today... who targets some of these people. Everybody knows who they are. And I bet you that, nobody will report it. If somebody helps somebody, then it means that... HK is one of the most incestuous place alive. If it was governed like Japan or like Korea.. this would not have happened.. Cos the people just kept saying things like..." well.. he could do it, then why can't I?"... Kind of BS.
So yeh.... HK is THE only place.. if you checked everyone's DNA.. it has now 150% "commune". i.e. "Your grand uncle just had sex with your sister" kind of place.
I bet these "ethnic minorities" have never known this, right ? I think it is time that, HK implemented lineage laws... imho. About time. Just like in the UK. i.e. You check to see who is who... and then make sure that they obey the law. Cos this is what happened to Japan. And South Korea. And the UK.
@@burakmehr786 : That is because those sh1tty pratts wanted a piece of the pie.. that is why they thought it was a good thing to "get the money"... but they didn't teach them anything. They just lived off the land. And those education's budgets.. and then.. when it comes to society now. They are not recruited first. Nobody hires them. (And now, most either knows Japanese, or Korean.. or even Mandarin.... and they don't compete with these people... even though they got the government's budgets.. those "cantonese kids" have fled the city already !!! Moved to Japan. Moved to South Korea. Moved to UK. Canada. The list goes on....) And this is why, you still see slums today. They got left behind. Why? Cos they didn't even bothered to read the papers. (And now in 2023.. it makes better news.. to complain about that instead.... while the world didn't stop for them.)
Last I read... in SCMP ... the HK SAR Government is boycotting this separate form of budgets. And again, merging the classes and groups together... In the past, ALL schools had to learn both Cantonese/Chinese, and English. Because of the bad results... and some ethnic minorities had a better English anyway... They should've had their budgets.. but then .. when the foreign schools started to hire the local Cantonese kids.. and then these English speaking traders' kids... took the Chinese school. Yes, it looks like it is equalised to some level.. but I suppose now, it is too late. Well.. it isn't too late.. as such... they should try and find more English speaking jobs... and then let the chinese do the chinese jobs, rather than the other way round. (But they don't... cos the flood gate opened up... for the Shenzen thing to happen. Imagine.. if some of those English speakers were in control in some of those factories inside China... What would have been the outcome of that?)
The other thing which these kids might not know also.. is that, they may not be actually Indian or Indonesia... Some of them, could be Armenians too. Actually.... And when the Ottoman Empire was collapsing.. and then people flee... They did go as far as HK as well for trades... So... This is something which they need to think about. The problem with educating a very varied racial grouping is that, this specific CEO... never taught them, that child's own history, for example... And the question was.. should it not have done so as well ? Maybe they should have done so. That is the discussion which should take place...
When you have been juggling work and video editing, you start getting butter fingers and make silly mistakes. That includes the one made at 1:23, it is “will” not “wiil”!