Hong Kong, currently a highly developed city which is also one of the most important financial center on the global stage, has been experienced a series of historical incidents which finally created a very distinctive, complicated yet dynamic and investigable background for it. Due to the colonial era under the administration of British and hand-over to China in 1997, Hong Kong people, or Hong Kongers, have been showing the changes of their identity through the different period when Hong Kong was experiencing the changes of sovereignty. However, due to the historical and cultural reasons, Hong Kong people have finally formed a very different and interesting identity for themselves. However, this has become one of the major challenge …show more content…
In the process of fostering their cultural identity, they have been unpreventably heading to the direction of binary opposition, in the sense that they have to resist to another identity in order to build up the one they have, in addition to the external factors from Mainland China. These conflicts have put Hong Kong people in the vicious cycle that their relationship with the Mainland China is worsening and worsening, and make Hong Kong people a step further to the resistance of their national identity, and then aggravate their identity conflicts. There is still a long journey for the Hong Kong people to solve this problem, for the history had shaped their cultural identity in such way which is not undoable, and thus relatively longer time is needed for them to reshape an identity for …show more content…
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