Broadly, it's action, whether intentional or unintentional yet beneficiary, to remove evidence of any difference between two bodies of people by destroying and/

Broadly, it's action, whether intentional or unintentional yet beneficiary, to remove evidence of any difference between two bodies of people by destroying and/or suppressing information, language, practices, methods, or anything that you may want to loop into the word, "culture." Within the context of Hong Kong / China it's difficult to explain, essentially there is a massively different, "feel" to each locale, and completely different systems of laws, language, thinking about the world, ways of communicating and thinking about how to govern and organize society, among other factors. It may or may not be within China's interest as a whole or in part, or their perceived interest to do away with these artifacts and methods of difference. But individual interests of the largely powerful economic scale within mainland China rather than attempting to decelerate the process, treat Hong Kong like a personal sandbox and pay people to attempt to bring the democratic governmental system down, and this involves all sorts of strategies which help toward that aim. It's not really a, "conspiracy theory," it's kind of just a long, slow out in the open slog that everyone knows about. If you go to Hong Kong in the year 2047 and then go over to Shenzhen I predict you won't sense much of a difference crossing from one side to another -- I would contest that is not likely good for China as a whole as my other comments on this thread point out. Further evidence to my point...can you imagine if you saw banners in the US being put up by the Federal Government which said, "Be Civilized...Speak English Everywhere, Including the Airport!" Or, could you imagine textbooks in school which say, "don't do uncivilized things like spit on the street, or speak Spanish." Horrifying. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cantonese-language-could-disappear-says-ubc-linguist-zoe-lam-1.3053933 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cantonese-lan...