This poll apparently has the Party's hereditary aristocracy in a tizzy. I guess the beatings will have to continue until morale improves.
The identity issue poll, carried out late last month by the University of Hong Kong, revealed a growing resentment towards the mainland.
Only 16.6 per cent of people living in the former British colony identified themselves first as Chinese citizens. That's the lowest level during the 15 years since the special administrative zone of seven million was returned to China in 1997 in a blaze of patriotic fervour.
Instead, more and more Hong Kongers are declaring themselves first and foremost as a Hong Kong citizens or Hong Kong Chinese citizens -- a clear rejection of the shared bond Beijing has attempted to build between the city and the mainland. |