Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong

Re:Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong by dawhizkid on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:07AM (#20522971)

I have to say, these protests in Hong Kong have really surprised me. This is my own prejudice speaking (as an American-born Taiwanese), but my wrong assumption about young East Asians was they'd be too distracted, disaffected, and generally uninterested in politics to have rallied like this.

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Re:Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong by tyc85 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:40AM (#20523170)

Seeing it another way, assuming you did not read the young generation incorrectly: even the uninterested youngsters have a bottomline and cannot stand what the Chinese government is doing anymore.

As a Taiwanese, I am more optimistic than your are regarding the thinking and passion of young east Asians.

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Re:Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong by idlewords on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:12AM (#20523006)

Do you see this as a cultural difference between Taiwan and Hong Kong, or a misreading of the younger generation?

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Re:Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong by mtgx on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:20AM (#20523055)

From what I've seen it's the millennials, the ones who are supposed to be disinterested about everything, who employ a high-level of activism.

Millennials seem set to ruin one more thing: government corruption. The progressive revolution you see in the U.S. is also due to them.

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Re:Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong by H8crilA on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:30AM (#20523118)

It is always students that protest the most. Remember tiananmen square? Remember protests in Soviet Union satellite countries? Framing it as a millennials problem omits the actual pattern at work.

It is also not surprising. Who has the most incentive for long term sensibility in nation management? People that have many years left to live. On top of that students often live in ideological bubbles that are ripe with underutilized manpower.

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Re:Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong by pas on Thursday July 25, 2019 @06:36AM (#20524224)

Most of millennials are long out of school.

The pattern seems to be more about had that particular age cohort (generation) already tried protesting? If no, they will try it. It usually doesn't succeed, they will then never try it again.

Plus the students as you mentioned.

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Re:Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong by H8crilA on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:25PM (#20529264)

Interesting idea - each cohort wants to protest at least once.

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