Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by barneygale on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:21AM
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Hong Kong was a British colony until 1997.
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Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by arethuza on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:24AM
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About a quarter of the world has been a British colony at some point!
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by csomar on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:40AM
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Hong Kong is very British, though. Most of the other colonized parts are not (Exceptions maybe Canada, NZ and Australia). But traveling from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, you can feel that there is a significant culture gap.
Also Hong Kong appears to have lots of British banking connections like HSBC and Standard Chartered.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by mytailorisrich on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:18PM
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Hongkong looks somewhat British in some aspects but not many. I think the main culture gap is that HK has kept a traditional Chinese culture that was swept away on the mainland.
> like HSBC
The name which means the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company. A bank founded in China (Hongkong) by the British.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by refurb on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:39PM
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I think Hong Kong looks very British! At least in comparison to the other Asian nations that don't have a British Colonial history.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by csomar on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:47PM
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Sure it was founded in HongKong but at that time it's purpose was to facilitate trade and banking between the UK and mainland China. My point is that they still have lots of these relations up to this day.