You just expose yourself as an anti immigrant right winger. "Immigrants don't adapt" and "immigrants are just here to profit from our social benefits" are the two most commonly used anti immigrant retoric all over the world. I see that you are a anti immigrant right winger when it comes to HK but you are a leftist multiculturalist when it comes to Canada. Right ? Isn't there a bit of inconsistency and hypocrisy on your part. The reality of immigration is a complex issue and how much the immigrants takes and contribute to a society is always difficult to define. That is as true for HK as it is for America, Europe or Canada.
No you're wrong. (I loved it when I can expose you guys are wrong)
1. I'm a first-generation immigrant, so I know how it feels and am not calling out others who aren't, or blindly brand everyone.
2. I hosted a dialogue where I interviewed even refugees and did a project for their rights for better health care, so what you're saying is like the calling a Jew a Nazi.
3. There are various accounts from various sources. In fact it's such a big issue, there were so much information, accounts on the internet and heated controversies that's also related to this topic towards government policies, loopholes, story accounts. The $6000 story was one at some point too. Anyways there are a lot, so when I refer to what I'm saying, I'm referring from specific examples where they are literally getting welfare and then sitting at home doing nothing while they actually crossed the border with lots of money. I don't make things up, and my statements are referring to those people. Other HKers who call out on that are also referring specifically to those people. I don't make up stories, and I know the group I'm targeting against.
4. I'm a vivid defender of immigrants for their right to speak their mother tongue, even in HK
5. I know Mandarin, so if I meet someone in HK who can't speak Mandarin, I use it without even really thinking about anything else. I don't make weird faces.
6. There are so many Chinese immigrants, I can safely say most of them earlier on are hard-working people. I've met a lot of retail clerks or other jobs for example where their Cantonese is accented, which of course tells me where they're from. However they worked hard and I felt and always believed this is the group that's also one of the pillars of HK.
7. Don't forget HK's immigration isn't strictly mainland only. There are Pakistanis and what not, and they work very hard and visible too. There are a lot of working mainland Chinese in HK
8. Thinking immigrants like that are racist. I can't stress how many times I've heard people say that and so no way in hell will I ever think or say the same towards others unless they are genuinely abusing the system, and when I call them out, I'm literally referring to those specific individuals.
I can literally go on, but I'll be bragging. I also find it quite pathetic how you actually underestimate that of me. If I really possess such attitude, I would be so hypocritical, double-standards, and racist, I can't even handle it myself, and if I can't even detect it or notice it, I must be stupid. Honestly if I'm such a bigot, I don't think I even have the right to talk about classism and privilege.
You find there's a hypocrisy, but of course you do and that's because you're wrong. Don't be so quick to assume and generalize next time. It's easy to make mistakes.
Me anti-immigrant right winger? I hope I won't laugh when I sleep tonight.
