pkphilip

HK does not have its own culture now, they are a mixture of what's influence the people. From the Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, HK culture goes what people likes.

We do have a culture, but that was backed in the 70s and 80s, where we were influenced by the western.

Philip

maldini

We in Canada are heavily influenced by American culture. People tend to think we have unique culture here, but that's just not true.

peter236

While Hong Kong is influenced by mixture of western culture and Japan culture, Hong Kong still is a Chinese place where Chinese culture is dominant. We should stop watching too much Korean TV series. HK is no longer under British colonial rule and we are getting our identity back.

[ 本帖最後由 peter236 於 2007-12-11 17:39 編輯 ]

布小熊

原帖由 maldini 於 2007-12-11 01:35 PM 發表
We in Canada are heavily influenced by American culture. People tend to think we have unique culture here, but that's just not true.

I do think that we are unique here. I used to work with Americans and they do have a very different POV than Canadians. They are for sure more patriotic and some of them... do see America as the centre of the world.

阿邊個邊個

HK has a culture? since when?

all i know is they they walk fast, they talk fast, they replace their cell phones more than once in a given year and they are heavily brainwashed by brand names products

is that culture? i wonder.....

SmellyTofu

I think the culture in HK has gone worse and worse.... the "me" mentality. All about me and nothing about the benefit of the whole community. As much as Chinese with historical roots in Confucism is all but dead. Maybe in the early 80's it was good but now... all about No. 1 (i.e. myself). But the thing is, if you don't look after no. 1, then you'll just sink deeper and deeper because the economy of HK is still pretty crap and a lot of underlying problems. I love HK. It's my hometown but it really needs a big fix to change things around to how it once was. Maybe we've all been spoil coz we're living the "Western" life.

maldini

原帖由 阿邊個邊個 於 2007-12-12 01:26 發表
HK has a culture? since when?

all i know is they they walk fast, they talk fast, they replace their cell phones more than once in a given year and they are heavily brainwashed by brand names products ...

But your description also fits the Japanese, Koreans and Taiwanese in general. Are you saying they don't have culture?

lightbulb

I guess to me, "copycat" quite suits the description.. People have tried to promote the products made by HK like 電影 and stuff, but I guess that kind of failed coz hk people just tend to follow the trend, which most of the time got introduced by other places..

Sometimes it's quite frustrating that it's not really 一國兩制 like how they've promised coz they still the final say about some political issues.. I think it's more frustrating when other people just generalize all the chinese people to have the same attitude, same habbits (like spitting everywhere) after HK returned back to China.. So if people say.. "Oh HK is just China", maybe you would think those people have in mind that you act just like those stereotypical China people who spit everywhere and all those other bad portraits that one might have..

Ovaltine

I was playing in Coq Casino, in the poker room. Three chinese guys, the rest are persian or white people. We had a little discussion of our identity. This old guy, winning lost of money, said he from HK. The Persians asked curiously about the difference between Chinese and Hong Kong. Another Cantonese, clearly a working class losing poker player said there was no difference. He said "We are all Chinese, Han, I don't see the difference." From that point on, I realize, the Hong Kong culture is part of a Chinese diaspora. We were a culture maybe 10 years ago, but for sure 10-20 years, this culture will be gone. We are like those rich Cubans in Miami, assimilated into the Capitalist American culture, but they still Cuban now.  Dream on my friends, at least we were once elite.