The Hong Kong residents hasn’t really done themselves any favours and won the hearts and minds of the mainlanders. They’ve always been viewed as snobbish and ge

The Hong Kong residents hasn’t really done themselves any favours and won the hearts and minds of the mainlanders. They’ve always been viewed as snobbish and generally hold mainlanders in low regard. It doesn’t help that Hong Kong media makes a big fuss about how uneducated mainlanders are whenever some mother lets her child urinate or defecate on public transport. Most mainlanders still insist that Taiwan is a part of China and Hong Kong’s protests is just some political unrest stirred up by Western countries to cause trouble. Coupled with a lifetime of brainwashing and propaganda (their primary school textbooks have dedicated sections where the students recite their love for their country and the communist party), I am not surprised at this at all. Most still justify Tiananmen Square as something that had to be done to preserve the stability of the country. Secondly, they see any Western criticism as third parties commenting on an internal China political issue, of which they have no right to.