Coleslaw

I love studying culture and finding ways to represent it through art.
For my 4 years studying fine art at University, I have been trying to pinpoint HK culture, but it is so difficult. On my last year I finally come to realize HK culture is born of copycats.

POP culture and TV shows we borrow and copy from others like TW and Japan. Everywhere is full of pirated stuff. We barely invent any original products, usually another country invents something popular and there will be 一窩鋒 local manufacturers making their own version of it.

This doesn't mean hk has no culture, just its culture is a copycat culture.

cola14

原帖由 Ovaltine 於 2007-12-5 12:39 發表



Really? I am really interested in topics of Humanities. Unfortunately, I still haven't finished highschool, partly due to my slow adaptability to Western cultures. Well my laziness and the abuse of ...

I think maybe we have different definitions about "culture". I guess the culture that I am referring to include many things like values, emotions, motivations, morals, etc. Of course pop culture, media and fashion is a part of it but i don't think that is all of it.
And actually, I think that HK is leaning more and more towards individualistic culture just as it seems to be the trend in the world. For example, look at the increasing divorce rate. Not saying which is right and which is wrong but people are valuing less about social/group harmony and more concern about personal efficacy

[ 本帖最後由 cola14 於 2007-12-5 15:05 編輯 ]

siumaibb

I think what you see now in HK is HK's culture already.
10 years ago, people thought HK is not the same as HK 20 years ago.
20 years ago, people thought HK is not the same as HK 30 years ago.
30 years ago, people thought HK is not the same as HK 40 years ago.
40 years ago, people thought HK is not the same as HK 50 years ago.
50 years ago, people thought HK is not the same as HK 60 years ago.

為何還在看海，不看開？

Guy

I think the culture of Hong Kong is simply  " Proud of being unique about themselves while trying to behave like someone else "... if you know what i mean...[my Eng sucks]

SO they have gathered a lot of cultures from others but not generating their own. That's why  we found it's hard to pin point a general HK culture.

Ultraman

Can't deny HK is part of China now, that's the fact. But there is nothing wrong to present "I came from HK", cuz it's just like "I came from Shanghai", would people challenge you "Shanghai? That's China la!" To say HK or Shanghai or whatever just want to be more specific, next time you can simply challenge them back: "China, it's so big wor, which part of city ar?"

celeron_266

原帖由 siumaibb 於 2007-12-5 15:06 發表
I think what you see now in HK is HK's culture already.
10 years ago, people thought HK is not the same as HK 20 years ago.
20 years ago, people thought HK is not the same as HK 30 years ago.
30 years ...

EXACTLY!!

notgoddy

原帖由 Coleslaw 於 2007-12-5 14:50 發表
I love studying culture and finding ways to represent it through art.
For my 4 years studying fine art at University, I have been trying to pinpoint HK culture, but it is so difficult. On my last year ...

There are times when they improved the median.

news

hk culture is 'wow i heard this popular, let's do the same thing!'

but for society is as a whole..i think it's always been quick thinking and hard working

peterbear

There was a place called Hong Kong.  It was there before 1997.  It was long gone.