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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by La1n on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:09AM (#23348985)
>Never should have given up the island in the first place.

They should never have colonized it in the first place.

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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by tasubotadas on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:26AM (#23349141)
Why? HKers are better off now because of that and probably the UK is now better off as well.
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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by La1n on Friday May 29, 2020 @10:39AM (#23350412)
Maybe there are better off now, but for a long time people lived under segregation and were discriminated against, the majority population had no say in any of the politics for a long time. Erasure of culture and language of the natives. Import of opium, an addictive drug, with war being fought over being able to keep selling it. Colonialism has a giant impact on a people.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2348771

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_Earth

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