How exactly Chinese are you?
It's a topic we've been battering on and on behind the Great Firewall, but never seem to have gotten enough convincing answers from HKers. Two questions for the locals (people having a HK passport, not just HKID):
1. Do you feel more like HKers, or more like Chinese?
2. If in 30-something years there is a referendum about: whether to join the motherland, or remain separate (i.e. as SAR) - how would you vote?
1. Do you feel more like HKers, or more like Chinese?
2. If in 30-something years there is a referendum about: whether to join the motherland, or remain separate (i.e. as SAR) - how would you vote?
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Permalink Reply by Chris B on
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1. I'm Hong Kong and I'm chinese. Although by birth, I'm actually only half Chinese but the Chinese Government are welcoming unlike the British GOvernment!
2. I kind of like both so would really need to see what motherland was like in 30-something years time!!!
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Permalink Reply by kaminari on -
Thanks. So I assume you have the Hong Kong passport, but not the British one?
As for 2: what if you were to decide TODAY?
Chris B said:1. I'm Hong Kong and I'm chinese. Although by birth, I'm actually only half Chinese but the Chinese Government are welcoming unlike the British GOvernment!
2. I kind of like both so would really need to see what motherland was like in 30-something years time!!!
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Permalink Reply by Genius Lee P on
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I recommend a book for you written by a Chinese born in China but migrated to Norway. The title is "Never be a Chinese again in rebirth". An individual with independent thought can easily answer your questions.
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Permalink Reply by Freakboy on
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I like to cross on the red and drive on the sidewalk.
I also like taking dumps in the middle of a busy freeway.
I am always the first one on the bus.
I can get on the elevator before the doors are open.
I wash my clean dishes with hot tea before i eat.
I can stand back 6 feet from the toilet bowl and still hit almost every drop. Almost.
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Permalink Reply by kaminari on
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I'll see if I can find it in Page1...
Genius Lee P said:I recommend a book for you written by a Chinese born in China but migrated to Norway. The title is "Never be a Chinese again in rebirth". An individual with independent thought can easily answer your questions.
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I have the HK passport, the Chinese reentry permit and the crappy BNO hahahahahaha
2. Today I like remaining separate :)
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Permalink Reply by kaminari on
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2. Today I like remaining separate :)
That's the way, a-ha, a-ha, I like it...
Chris B said:I have the HK passport, the Chinese reentry permit and the crappy BNO hahahahahaha
2. Today I like remaining separate :)
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Permalink Reply by नमस्ते लंदन on -
i dont know about the prc being welcoming. they certainly dont welcome children with full chinese parents born in the prc, if the parents were settled in a foreign country. so if i was born in pakistan with 100% han chinese parents settled in pakistan, then i would have no right to chinese citizenship at all, and will have to get a visa just like a gwai lo. even taiwanese are not given automatic permanent residency status. the british on the other hand will allow children with parents settled abroad to be full british citizens.
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Permalink Reply by kaminari on
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Well, with China you have to remember, that they still have the overpopulation problem. That's why they are being so careful about it - not that I am defending this policy, frankly speaking, I disagree with it.
It's a funny country, isn't it? One one hand, they stop people from getting back, because of overpopulation, but on the other they stop people from leaving... :-)
Viet Nguyen said:i dont know about the prc being welcoming. they certainly dont welcome children with full chinese parents born in the prc, if the parents were settled in a foreign country. so if i was born in pakistan with 100% han chinese parents settled in pakistan, then i would have no right to chinese citizenship at all, and will have to get a visa just like a gwai lo. even taiwanese are not given automatic permanent residency status. the british on the other hand will allow children with parents settled abroad to be full british citizens.
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Generally speaking, the place of birth decides one's nationality and citizenship, with savings. You were born in Paki, therfore you are Paki, simple as that unless at the time you were born, there was restriction from Paki government that you could not acquire Paki nationality. Thereafter, you acquired Paki citizenship and therefore you are treated as foreigners, in PRC's eyes.
Why give birth in China in order to acquire citizenship? The more affluent Chinese have started to rush to HK hospitals to give birth their babies.
नमस्ते लंदन said:i dont know about the prc being welcoming. they certainly dont welcome children with full chinese parents born in the prc, if the parents were settled in a foreign country. so if i was born in pakistan with 100% han chinese parents settled in pakistan, then i would have no right to chinese citizenship at all, and will have to get a visa just like a gwai lo. even taiwanese are not given automatic permanent residency status. the british on the other hand will allow children with parents settled abroad to be full british citizens.
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Permalink Reply by kaminari on
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Generally speaking, the place of birth decides one's nationality and citizenship
With exceptions, HK and I believe China being two of them. If I remember well, there has been a change in HK law recently, and unless one of your parents was a carrier of HKID at the time when you were born - you will not get it.
Genius Lee P said:Generally speaking, the place of birth decides one's nationality and citizenship, with savings. You were born in Paki, therfore you are Paki, simple as that unless at the time you were born, there was restriction from Paki government that you could not acquire Paki nationality. Thereafter, you acquired Paki citizenship and therefore you are treated as foreigners, in PRC's eyes.
Why give birth in China in order to acquire citizenship? The more affluent Chinese have started to rush to HK hospitals to give birth their babies.
नमस्ते लंदन said:i dont know about the prc being welcoming. they certainly dont welcome children with full chinese parents born in the prc, if the parents were settled in a foreign country. so if i was born in pakistan with 100% han chinese parents settled in pakistan, then i would have no right to chinese citizenship at all, and will have to get a visa just like a gwai lo. even taiwanese are not given automatic permanent residency status. the british on the other hand will allow children with parents settled abroad to be full british citizens.
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