HK's milk tea originates from the UK, but it is way way way way stronger. For each cup of tea, the locals use 6 to 8 times more tea leaf. They don't just use milk, they use evaporated milk. Many people in HK drink several cups of milk tea each day. Perhaps, this is the reason why HK is a city that never sleeps.
You obviously isn’t aware of HK history, and the so called democracy protests where anyone voicing support for our government were mobbed. I guess free speech only applies when convenient and with western narratives. Smh
The arguably largest and most important gift of gratitude from British to HK was the legal system and business environment, which made it into one of most prosperous places on Earth.
And in return, a whole bunch of brits got crazy wealthy. It wasn’t a one way street nor out of the goodness of their hearts. It was on the backs on the older generation of Hong Kong people. Something the younger generation should really read up on, rather than just thinking it was cuz the brits gave us “freedom”
Being a Tax haven, a hub for corruption and money laundering, the Triades and the fact it's an important port made HK one of the most prosperous places in the world.
The Anglican Church in Hong Kong have also established the most academically excellent, all-rounded and reputable schools in Hong Kong. All those anglican schools in Hong Kong are still the most competitive, popular and desirable schools for all HK parents and children today!
And if your hong kongnese schools were so academically competitive, why did the graduating class in physics from Fudan in 1983 basically find spots on academic faculty the world over?
@@elenamichaels9658 Seems that you have some inferiority complex and psychological distortions. We were talking about the Anglican and English schools being the most popular and excellent in Hong Kong, not comparing them with other countries, e.g. China / Fudan or Singapore, and we are not saying HK english schools are the best in the world either. You obviously have mainland Chinese inferior and boasting mindset. Pity you!
Hong Kong’s Christian Times reported that on the morning of October 1st, the St. John’s Cathedral of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui held a Mandarin-language communion service with the flag of the People’s Republic of China displayed on the pulpit. This marked the first time in the history of St. John’s Cathedral that the Five-Star Red Flag was displayed inside the church.
People in Macau,India,Pakistan,South Africa,Australia,New Zealand,Indonesia,Jamaica,Malaysia,Mozambique,Zambia,Cyprus, Japan etc also still drive on the left-Hand side of the road
@@choualberto885 In 1872 the first Japanese railway was up and running thanks to the British. A massive network of railways spread out from there, all of which were left-side running. And as we all know, Japan loves their trains. If American or French railways had been built instead, Japan would probably be driving on the right side of the road today.
Western powers and Amerikkka ate crashing now lot Asian Chinese not realize yet till too late like couple more year anything influenced by Amerikkka is silly dumb outdated.
@@flyinpug3791 Really? And per chance was happening on the main land during the people’s cultural revolution? Hong Kong was fortunate to have been British rule
The English language still having an important place in HK. I am but skeptical about that. I once met some guy who moved from Hong Kong to Singapore as a child after the handover. He said the greatest hurdle he faced in adapting to Singapore is having to learn and speak English more often. He spent his childhood in what was still a British territory and moved to a country that gained independence more than thirty years prior and yet the latter is where he gained most of his English skills 😕 I guess it's like what you see in a lot of African countries where a European language is an official language but it doesn't mean the masses really use it much even at school.
Yes and Singapore 🇸🇬 has 4 main languages English, Chinese Manadarin, Malay and Tamil and 16 Dialects same as its Larger Neighbours Malaysia 🇲🇾 and Indonesia 🇮🇩.
English is the international language of the world, business, international law, diplomacy,air travel and maritime laws are all set up for the English language so it will continue to be important
The Famous Double decker Wooden Bodied Trams 🚊, that were Fully Refurbished till Today 2022 that still operating between Kennedy Town to Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island 🏝
@@TAL142Yes they are. The ferries are a design used all over the British Empire including her in Auckland until the 1980s. The Peak tram funicular is also a British designed emulated in may places in the empire including in NZ's Capitol, Wellington.
It is refreshing to see the influence of British rule portrayed in a positive way for a change. I first visited Hong Kong in 2000. It was streaks ahead of many other cities in Asia in terms of development and living standards at that time. The British played a role in that.
Please mention that though signs and documents are in British English, but most young people in Hong Kong (unfortunately) speak like Americans nowadays.
British Culture, although sometimes exploitative has also beeen great, in many ways, for the modern world.The entire Anglosphere is shaped by it, and beyond(Evey Modern constitutions are based on the Principles inside the documents therein from the initial Anglo-Saxon common law (1041), onto the Charter of liberties (1100), through the Magna Carta (1215), and culminating in the English Bill of Rights (1683). E.g. The economic, legal and political structures, of the USA are all based on the UK model
Double decker Wrightbus buses shipped from Northern Ireland to HK. Car registration plates still have BS AU **** (British Standard AUto ). Macau also strangely drives on the left for a former Portugese territory
Nothing 'strangely' about it; Portugal used to drive on the left, like most European countries. When Portugal switched to right-side driving in 1928, many of its colonies refused to follow suit. Some Portuguese colonies eventually did many years later; but Mozambique, East Timor, and Macau all stuck with their original left-side driving. This is the same reason that many former Dutch colonies (Suriname, Indonesia) also drive on the left-side, unlike their former colonial master (The Netherlands) which switched to driving on the right-side in 1795.
The British should have never handed it over. The agreement was made with Imperial China, and the Communists have vehemently denied any legality to anything from the Imperial (or brief Republican) period... except for their double-standard with Hong Kong and Macau. They wanted THOSE legal agreements honored. The name "Tony Blair" should be used as a curse.
i’m from singapore & my family went to hong kong from guangzhou for a day trip. what a stark contrast! i saw so many similarities between us as well, which makes sense given singapore was under the british too 😂
Same but I’m from Australia. It was a huge breath of fresh air for me. Felt more like home. Actually, in a sense it may be more like home than home in a way. I speak both Cantonese and English (can’t read much Chinese though), so everywhere I went it felt like I was surrounded by “my people”. I’m sure there are many cultural differences still, but on the surface it felt like I fit in (not that I don’t in Australia, just a very different feeling when 90% of the people on the street look and sound like you).
😂 So Britain gets a sleepy fishing village and turns it into one of if not the most important cities in Asia after a hundred years… CCP gets control of it for 20 years and now it’s just another Chinese city😢 I used to go to Hong Kong, but never again.
@@rice4550 Tell us about China's imperialism in Tibet, "Xinjiang", southern Mongolia and the Himalaya. And how Taiwan became a Han settler state Regardless of how HK was acquired, the British still returned to China something which hadn't existed before and which was worth $177bn per year in 1997 prices
@@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp Yes China was imperialist, so was the UK just ask the natives of Australia, North America and Africa, It doesn't matter if the UK made HK into Tokyo and returned it, HK was stolen by a state in a war about why the UK couldn't sell drugs to China, can you see why that is bad
This kind of video needds to be longer! 🐇 We want an hour of peace, joy, and adventure watching a documentary like this with the beautiful voice of the narrator 🐒
China and Chinese businesses benefited immensely from Hong Kong and it's legal system. And China could still benefit from Hong Kong unique status in the future but it seems the old men in Beijing are more keen on eroding away Hong Kong's uniqueness and just making Hong Kong into another Chinese city. Short sighted imo.
It will retain it's low tax open economy and common law for commerce past 2047, that has been confirmed by Beijing. Politics has no practical value on the other hand.
Jake R:The British benefitted even more by milking billions from HK and plundering its resources.If not for the national security law,they would continue to use HK as their hub to spy and destabilise China.They must be seething in anger to see that HK managed to survive the riots and is now stable and prosperous.
I am mesmirised by the city i have never visited, thanks to the unusual merger of two cultures and systems as well as the home of Jackie Chan! My childhood hero!
I’m from another former British colony (it’s a port city too) It looks so much like my city (trams, double decker bus, British street name, driving on left, food, culture, city planning, etc… everything is same)😂😂 looks like brits just copy pasted the entire city To me Hk is super nostalgic (even tho I‘ve never been there)
So to Singapore 🇸🇬, Also a Former British Colony, but became an Independent country on August 9th 1965. Singapore 🇸🇬 has Both single and Double decker buses 🚌, Driving on left lanes and Retained Restored All Former British Colonial Architectures such as Forner Supreme Court ,CityHall building and St Andrews Cathedral etc.
Our Malaysian version of milk tea is called teh tarik but with added some acrobatic pulling tea technique from high up cup to bottom down thus creating a smooth taste and thick foam
Yes and so to Another Former British Colony, Singapore 🇸🇬. Singapore 🇸🇬 was a British Crown 👑 Colony for 140 years before gaining Full Internal Self Government, Merged Temporary with Malaysia 🇲🇾 in 1963 and eventually Independence on August 9th 1965.
Couldn’t agree more. Seems video frankly makes me feel heartbroken seeing as there was so many of these positive influences, and now I’m scared that they could be chipped away at in favour of more Chinese CCP approved cultural in governing laws. Especially most of all units elections. It feels like a nightmare happening and we are doing so little to help. It honestly feels like it would be better if Britain was involved in a territory again (at least to protect it) over what is happening now.
Custard tarts, aka pastéis (de nata/de Belém) are most definitely a Portuguese invention. Macau after all is just over the Zhujiang Estuary. Even Mary Berry, the doyenne of British cookery refers to hers as Portuguese Tarts. British custard tarts are more like the French "flan" with the latter being more rubbery in texture. Americans call their tarts, pies. In the UK a pie has an "upper crust"😂
The first time I was in HK, was after about a year in Guangzhou. It was incredibly strange to step into a city that was Chinese, yet was so similar to cities in the UK. I haven't been back except to the airport, so I'm interested to see what has changed in the last five years.
In sixth grade I watched a video of hong kong people living on boats in crowded conditions due to being priced out of their city. And I don't know why a subject of the British monarchy is so blatantly supportive of their antics- they don't benefit you- dost citizen?
@@elenamichaels9658 Those living on boats are largely Tanka people and they do that by choice. There are public housing built every year from 1960s all the way to the handover. Housing crisis that you talked about pricing people out did not become a thing until 2000s.
I agree 100%. I visited Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2000 and 2001. Everyone in Hong Kong were driving cars, everyone in Shanghai were driving old mopeds. Case closed.
Prosperous for a few, not for the majority. Back then you couldn't be promoted to the highest ranks in the civil service or in business if you were ethnically Chinese.
from the otherside of the equation : I wonder whats the number of brits who actually learn n can speak cantonese. or expats in general. or how many hk / cantonese culture imported into uk?
There were a number of British officials or scholars who could speak some level of Cantonese, but the most fluent ones came from the Indian subcontinent - they worked for the Brits, were less well-off and had to mingle with the locals more often. Some of their descendants have become permanent residents, studying in local schools and working in different kinds of jobs as fluent speakers of Cantonese. For the second part of the question, I know that "dim sum" is now in the Cambridge Dictionary, but not much else. Well, the tea culture itself was the biggest impact for the Brits but it occurred before Hong Kong was a thing.
You have to understand that being English is a major crutch, because English is so used, it doesn't force us to learn other languages, so we're at a huge disadvantage.
I thought the British still had a lease on Hong Kong for a few decades. I remember seeing protests against China in Hong Kong on the news. What was that all about?
No the protests is about China intervening with our basic law allowing China transporting what China considers as fugitives back to mainland to be judge with China's lawsystem. Hongkong people consider that as breaking the law system of Hong Kong which means no freedom, China can just port whoever they think is a fugitive back to China instead of getting judged in HK
@@JKMT it was also in part due to the law being set down from the CCP bypassing the usual local courts and judges and that the extradition as outlined in that law bypasses normal extradition rules and once again, bypasses local courts and judges. That is why it is interferance with the Basic Law. Everything about its writing and what it permits bypasses the local courts.
@@drunkenmonkey1887 The Court of Final Appeal has held the extradition agreement is legal and I accordance to the Basic Law.You seem to think you know the law better than this highest court lol!
I'll point out several more that I noticed as an Irishman: 1. Same plugs. 2. Double decker busses are the same manufacturer as Dublin bus. 3. Paving stones are the same as well.
Colonialism is obviously a terrible thing but it’s cultural fusion that can give a city its unique culture. Unfortunately, Pooh bear and his cronies will try to destroy that.
Is that right??? When I first visited Hong Kong in 2000, shortly after handover, everyone there was driving cars. The same year I visited Shanghai, everyone there was driving old mopeds. If you look at footage of Hong Kong in the 1990s under British rule, living standards were higher generally than mainland cities. Britain and Hong Kong can be proud of shared heritage in building one of the world’s leading cities.
china is taking the pandemic so seriously America didn't take it seriously and we lost 18.3 million people. Same goes with India, they lost 4.7 million people
Thanks for the info except this video isn't about Malaysia. You're like that colleague who jumps into other people's conversations screaming "what about me? ME ME ME!" Sit down and wait for your turn.
I was born in HK before 1997, I'm Chinese speaks Cantonese and HK today is China Hong Kong, I love my country (mainland China) as well as the British, and I agreed that HK was ever a British colony. They are my parents, I don't want to see any conflict among them...
This is a really nice report, but unfortunately I find it hard to take it seriously, especially when it came to the law side of things considering how it is in China right now. They have taken over the running of the country in that they have removed truly free elections and the voice of the people which this video does not address. This is very upsetting as Hong Kong was still one of the shining jewels in the crowd and its British style governing system is a big part of that and now it has been tainted. It breaks our hearts and we truly wish for Hong Kong to be free again.
Big mistake for the chinese not completely erradicate british influence They must start the process of decolonisation and erase all british's marks from the city before 2047.
Yes and yes what you mentioned is so true…. There is no longer one country 2 system the freedom of HK is gone and might be forever…. Even the HK culture is being diluted…. It is such an awful and disheartening sight
@@slickrick2420 Furthermore local only allow to assume some higher position in the government less than 10 years prior to the handover We can safely conclude that if wasn't for the handover The british will not allowed local to assume high position in the government perpetually And the sole reason they allowed local to assume higher position prior to the handover were to sow future discontent among the local and centre government just like how they did with all the former colonies with divide and ruled and sowing hatre and discontent for the former colonies example India, Pakistan, Myanmar and etc.
@@SerBallister The British empire did awful things on literally a global scale and is responsible for much more deaths than Genghis Khan. Even he would be horrified.
Hong Kong handover to China and Macao handover to China are disasters. Those two cities would have thrived as mega city states like Athens and Sparta with Cantonese/English & Cantonese/Portuguese mix.
@@daddydallas4789 chinese what? mandarin or cantonese? there are many chineses... get your facts right, I never said they dont belong to chinese, I said they dont belong to china/beijing
I guess that's why hong kong parliament was throwing raw American pork on the tables to protest the importation of American pork because Hong Kongers don't want american additives such as ractopamine in their pork.
I wonder how much longer these colonial vestiges will survive until China decides to erase everything completely. China will also change the way driving is done in Hong Kong.
One of the less attractive aspects of HK is its attitude toward Christian evangelism: mainland China does an excellent job of simultaneously protecting religious freedom while at the same time strictly enforcing separation of church and state, placing personal privacy in public above invasive evangelical practices. Not so in HK, where your personal privacy may be invaded anywhere anytime in public by someone approaching you and asking something like "Are you saved?"
HK's milk tea originates from the UK, but it is way way way way stronger. For each cup of tea, the locals use 6 to 8 times more tea leaf. They don't just use milk, they use evaporated milk. Many people in HK drink several cups of milk tea each day. Perhaps, this is the reason why HK is a city that never sleeps.
True. I drank one cup of milk tea at 10 pm before taking SAT, and I stayed up for the whole night.
@@MoTui-dc4usdid you get projectile diarrhea?
@@loganstroganoff1284 Luckily no. My digestive system is strong, despite caffeine works pretty well on me.
Espresso too.
@@MoTui-dc4usDon't expect this will always be the case. As one gets old, the body becomes weaker and weaker.
One British influence that certainly no longer exists: Free Speech.
It doesn’t exist in Britain either.
@@Avengerieit doesn’t exist anywhere.
You obviously isn’t aware of HK history, and the so called democracy protests where anyone voicing support for our government were mobbed.
I guess free speech only applies when convenient and with western narratives. Smh
Go read a book - there was no ‘free speech’ under colonial sedition laws.
Wow. I think my comment was deleted cuz I called the 2019 incident a ri ot. Woohoo. Free speech 🗽
The arguably largest and most important gift of gratitude from British to HK was the legal system and business environment, which made it into one of most prosperous places on Earth.
sadly Britain has lost that skill now
@@111dddccaBritain is no different to what it was in the empire.
And in return, a whole bunch of brits got crazy wealthy. It wasn’t a one way street nor out of the goodness of their hearts. It was on the backs on the older generation of Hong Kong people. Something the younger generation should really read up on, rather than just thinking it was cuz the brits gave us “freedom”
Being a Tax haven, a hub for corruption and money laundering, the Triades and the fact it's an important port made HK one of the most prosperous places in the world.
@@K1pp3rs yeah cos billionaire mainland chinese totally haven't enslaved hongkongers -.-
The Anglican Church in Hong Kong have also established the most academically excellent, all-rounded and reputable schools in Hong Kong. All those anglican schools in Hong Kong are still the most competitive, popular and desirable schools for all HK parents and children today!
ACtually Signoapore ranks number one in the world in academic performance.
And if your hong kongnese schools were so academically competitive, why did the graduating class in physics from Fudan in 1983 basically find spots on academic faculty the world over?
@@elenamichaels9658 Seems that you have some inferiority complex and psychological distortions. We were talking about the Anglican and English schools being the most popular and excellent in Hong Kong, not comparing them with other countries, e.g. China / Fudan or Singapore, and we are not saying HK english schools are the best in the world either. You obviously have mainland Chinese inferior and boasting mindset. Pity you!
Hong Kong’s Christian Times reported that on the morning of October 1st, the St. John’s Cathedral of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui held a Mandarin-language communion service with the flag of the People’s Republic of China displayed on the pulpit. This marked the first time in the history of St. John’s Cathedral that the Five-Star Red Flag was displayed inside the church.
@@elenamichaels9658according to whom and what scale
The narrator's accent is another influence
People in Macau,India,Pakistan,South Africa,Australia,New Zealand,Indonesia,Jamaica,Malaysia,Mozambique,Zambia,Cyprus, Japan etc also still drive on the left-Hand side of the road
Ironically Indonesia, Mozambique, Thailand, and Japan weren't colonized by the Brits.
@@choualberto885 In 1872 the first Japanese railway was up and running thanks to the British. A massive network of railways spread out from there, all of which were left-side running. And as we all know, Japan loves their trains. If American or French railways had been built instead, Japan would probably be driving on the right side of the road today.
St Lucia too and probably Barbados et al.
The left side is the right side of the road to drive.
singapore too 😁
You missed another big point. Many HKers have an English name for regular and daily use but have a different Chinese name on official documents.
I think this is also becoming more common on the mainland nowadays but I can see this practice originating in HK under British rule
Western powers and Amerikkka ate crashing now lot Asian Chinese not realize yet till too late like couple more year anything influenced by Amerikkka is silly dumb outdated.
@@geronimowindow Five names on four Passports from three different countries. Prepare to blow Dodge City.
same in singapore 😂
If you consider "Fish", "Bobo", "Fruit", "Salad" etc to be English names, sure...
The entire territory of Hong Kong is a British influence. At the time it was given to the British, it was just a fishing village.
Yes people lived there and then the British gunned them down when they wouldn’t leave their homes
This. The British built HK. Google any picture of what Hong Kong looked like when China had it, and compare.
@@flyinpug3791 Really? And per chance was happening on the main land during the people’s cultural revolution? Hong Kong was fortunate to have been British rule
@@RobertTidbury aww what’s wrong? Does that truth trigger you? Do you need your mommy and some milk and cookies? Waaaa
@@flyinpug3791 Facts matter
The Hongkong Police Force used brittish traditions until 2021 when it was changed out with chinese marsch and prussian goose stepping.
The English language still having an important place in HK. I am but skeptical about that.
I once met some guy who moved from Hong Kong to Singapore as a child after the handover. He said the greatest hurdle he faced in adapting to Singapore is having to learn and speak English more often. He spent his childhood in what was still a British territory and moved to a country that gained independence more than thirty years prior and yet the latter is where he gained most of his English skills 😕 I guess it's like what you see in a lot of African countries where a European language is an official language but it doesn't mean the masses really use it much even at school.
Yeah many restaurants when i went to hk in 2018 only spoke cantonese
Yes and Singapore 🇸🇬 has 4 main languages English, Chinese Manadarin, Malay and Tamil and 16 Dialects same as its Larger Neighbours Malaysia 🇲🇾 and Indonesia 🇮🇩.
English is the international language of the world, business, international law, diplomacy,air travel and maritime laws are all set up for the English language so it will continue to be important
Singapore 🇸🇬 is part of the British Commonwealth countries too and having Very Strong 💪 Histrionic links ties to the United Kingdom 🇬🇧.
@@funkyplasmaman I DONT KNOW 100 YEARS IS A LONG TIME FOR EVEEYONE TO LEARN CHINESE
I believe the Peak Tram and the Star Ferry was also installed during the British rule of Hong Kong
They were not uniquely British.
The Famous Double decker Wooden Bodied Trams 🚊, that were Fully Refurbished till Today 2022 that still operating between Kennedy Town to Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island 🏝
@@TAL142Yes they are. The ferries are a design used all over the British Empire including her in Auckland until the 1980s. The Peak tram funicular is also a British designed emulated in may places in the empire including in NZ's Capitol, Wellington.
It is refreshing to see the influence of British rule portrayed in a positive way for a change. I first visited Hong Kong in 2000. It was streaks ahead of many other cities in Asia in terms of development and living standards at that time. The British played a role in that.
I didn't know the tram was known as the _"Ding Ding"_
I wasn't aware the Master Chief was British, you can't hide that bus number from me. 0:19
City’s where there’s a fusion of cultures are some of best places to visit,
Just not ones run by communist dictatorships
“Mine!”- Winnie the pooh
"Sure!" - King Charles III
Don't forget about the statue of Queen Victoria at Victoria Park
Please mention that though signs and documents are in British English, but most young people in Hong Kong (unfortunately) speak like Americans nowadays.
no they still speak English with a very thick cantonese accent...something like UNCLE ROGER (search him in youtube) speaks
Really cool how the brits made their colonies quite similar. Coming from Kuching, Sarawak we were governed by the White Rajahs for 105 years XD
your city is a dump. cant hail a cab anywhere
Same goes to Brunei, the most notable British's colony
Here in Selangor too
British Culture, although sometimes exploitative has also beeen great, in many ways, for the modern world.The entire Anglosphere is shaped by it, and beyond(Evey Modern constitutions are based on the Principles inside the documents therein from the initial Anglo-Saxon common law (1041), onto the Charter of liberties (1100), through the Magna Carta (1215), and culminating in the English Bill of Rights (1683). E.g. The economic, legal and political structures, of the USA are all based on the UK model
@@Rowlph8888 british culture is fine but it's a shame that the invaders completely destroyed the native culture in most colonies.
Double decker Wrightbus buses shipped from Northern Ireland to HK. Car registration plates still have BS AU **** (British Standard AUto ). Macau also strangely drives on the left for a former Portugese territory
Nothing 'strangely' about it; Portugal used to drive on the left, like most European countries. When Portugal switched to right-side driving in 1928, many of its colonies refused to follow suit. Some Portuguese colonies eventually did many years later; but Mozambique, East Timor, and Macau all stuck with their original left-side driving.
This is the same reason that many former Dutch colonies (Suriname, Indonesia) also drive on the left-side, unlike their former colonial master (The Netherlands) which switched to driving on the right-side in 1795.
And the MTR trains shipped from Birmingham.
@@jakezyx Netherlands, 1795...??
The British should have never handed it over.
The agreement was made with Imperial China, and the Communists have vehemently denied any legality to anything from the Imperial (or brief Republican) period... except for their double-standard with Hong Kong and Macau. They wanted THOSE legal agreements honored.
The name "Tony Blair" should be used as a curse.
This must infuriate the chinese
how
i’m from singapore & my family went to hong kong from guangzhou for a day trip. what a stark contrast! i saw so many similarities between us as well, which makes sense given singapore was under the british too 😂
Same but I’m from Australia. It was a huge breath of fresh air for me. Felt more like home. Actually, in a sense it may be more like home than home in a way. I speak both Cantonese and English (can’t read much Chinese though), so everywhere I went it felt like I was surrounded by “my people”.
I’m sure there are many cultural differences still, but on the surface it felt like I fit in (not that I don’t in Australia, just a very different feeling when 90% of the people on the street look and sound like you).
😂
So Britain gets a sleepy fishing village and turns it into one of if not the most important cities in Asia after a hundred years…
CCP gets control of it for 20 years and now it’s just another Chinese city😢
I used to go to Hong Kong, but never again.
The CCP transformed China, look at how far it has come in the last 50 years
Learn about economic imperialism and you’ll understand how Hong Kong was turned into a mega city
@@rice4550 Tell us about China's imperialism in Tibet, "Xinjiang", southern Mongolia and the Himalaya. And how Taiwan became a Han settler state
Regardless of how HK was acquired, the British still returned to China something which hadn't existed before and which was worth $177bn per year in 1997 prices
@@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp Yes China was imperialist, so was the UK just ask the natives of Australia, North America and Africa, It doesn't matter if the UK made HK into Tokyo and returned it, HK was stolen by a state in a war about why the UK couldn't sell drugs to China, can you see why that is bad
This kind of video needds to be longer! 🐇 We want an hour of peace, joy, and adventure watching a documentary like this with the beautiful voice of the narrator 🐒
That's just a standard Brit accent What do you mean? I guess you're American
@@Rowlph8888 yeah i live in america and i find brit accent pretty interesting at times… like a burd chirping
@@0animalproductworld558 Okay, cool.I guess it's quite elegant
@@Rowlph8888 yep 👍🏻
China and Chinese businesses benefited immensely from Hong Kong and it's legal system. And China could still benefit from Hong Kong unique status in the future but it seems the old men in Beijing are more keen on eroding away Hong Kong's uniqueness and just making Hong Kong into another Chinese city. Short sighted imo.
It will retain it's low tax open economy and common law for commerce past 2047, that has been confirmed by Beijing.
Politics has no practical value on the other hand.
Jake R:The British benefitted even more by milking billions from HK and plundering its resources.If not for the national security law,they would continue to use HK as their hub to spy and destabilise China.They must be seething in anger to see that HK managed to survive the riots and is now stable and prosperous.
The old men in Beijing said they will keep the one country, two systems in place.
and you know nothing, outsider
Exercising control, It's always about control
Terrific video!
Its the mix of east and west, including different Chinese intra ethnic groups, not just the British.
And the Middle East as well. The local Arab ethnicity always get forgotten.
@@cyberdiver7076 Sorry, and the southeast asian community as well. My bad.
@@cyberdiver7076 What local Arab community ? They are not a significant minority
I first read the title as "25 years after hangover"🤣🤣
😂I saw that too
@@midnyte6195 *So do I.*
@@ShizukaOG I think who ever titled the video went fast and it came out as hangover instead 😄
I am mesmirised by the city i have never visited, thanks to the unusual merger of two cultures and systems as well as the home of Jackie Chan! My childhood hero!
Tell u what, better say Bruce Lee, Hong Kong people have hated Jacky Chan for over a decade
Charming, interesting and educational video. I am so pleased that the old traditions continue to play a part in the life of HK. Thank you for this.
I’m from another former British colony (it’s a port city too)
It looks so much like my city (trams, double decker bus, British street name, driving on left, food, culture, city planning, etc… everything is same)😂😂 looks like brits just copy pasted the entire city
To me Hk is super nostalgic (even tho I‘ve never been there)
lol. Are you from Singapore?
Singapore
Brunei too but without trams & double decker bus lol
@@abhiram7206 Singapore no longer have tram
So to Singapore 🇸🇬, Also a Former British Colony, but became an Independent country on August 9th 1965.
Singapore 🇸🇬 has Both single and Double decker buses 🚌, Driving on left lanes and Retained Restored All Former British Colonial Architectures such as Forner Supreme Court ,CityHall building and St Andrews Cathedral etc.
I hope the CCP won't mess up with Hong Kong. It's really painful when the CCP gets involved in everything.
Too late
Our Malaysian version of milk tea is called teh tarik but with added some acrobatic pulling tea technique from high up cup to bottom down thus creating a smooth taste and thick foam
haven't you heard? hong kong was never a colony according to the gov now.
Lol
There are too many influences existing in HK right now. I think it needs many episodes to tell them all.
Yes and so to Another Former British Colony, Singapore 🇸🇬.
Singapore 🇸🇬 was a British Crown 👑 Colony for 140 years before gaining Full Internal Self Government, Merged Temporary with Malaysia 🇲🇾 in 1963 and eventually Independence on August 9th 1965.
We're Sarawakian always respect our ex British colony neighbour 🏴🤝🇸🇬
@@NormanThe_FreedomHope22-5respect
Life was better under the English
Hong Kong forever.
For the elite yes, for the working class definitely not.
@@afamouswriter now you can get arrested for writing the wrong Facebook message
@@afamouswriter How so?
Lies again? Health Hub USD SGD
Foreign influence that doesn't cause less freedom, enriches the locals.
Except the Chinese locals were treated like second class citizens under British rule. But, okay. No harm. Lots of freedom.
Couldn’t agree more. Seems video frankly makes me feel heartbroken seeing as there was so many of these positive influences, and now I’m scared that they could be chipped away at in favour of more Chinese CCP approved cultural in governing laws. Especially most of all units elections. It feels like a nightmare happening and we are doing so little to help. It honestly feels like it would be better if Britain was involved in a territory again (at least to protect it) over what is happening now.
Hong Kong is so much better when the British leave
Western influence is what culture less looks like.
@@weilee1155 I beg to differ
Another British Colonial Influence in Hong Kong : Horse racing
macau should have remained a Portuguese overseas territory
Hong Kong really awesome place to stay. you already knew alot about British stuff in there without going to the UK
Yes and also can consider another location, Singapore 🇸🇬
Custard tarts, aka pastéis (de nata/de Belém) are most definitely a Portuguese invention. Macau after all is just over the Zhujiang Estuary. Even Mary Berry, the doyenne of British cookery refers to hers as Portuguese Tarts. British custard tarts are more like the French "flan" with the latter being more rubbery in texture. Americans call their tarts, pies. In the UK a pie has an "upper crust"😂
Why did you not mention that the former Legislative Council Building was originally the Supreme or High Court of Hong Kong?
Loved the Star Ferry and Peak trams when visiting ( from Singapore ) my grandma in HK !
This is unique and bring people to travel to Hong Kong. And its not feel like its in China.
The first time I was in HK, was after about a year in Guangzhou. It was incredibly strange to step into a city that was Chinese, yet was so similar to cities in the UK. I haven't been back except to the airport, so I'm interested to see what has changed in the last five years.
You’ll be very surprised to find how much it’s changed. I’ve been 3 times and every time I found it to be less and less British influenced
Does Hong Kong tea houses still have a no dog, no Chinese policy.
The rest of Canton province used to drive on the left.
4:21 hey! that's a symbol of my language
0:44 Can she do that in India?
Why?
Two other British things missed out, car number plate design and electricity outlets.
You didn't mention bagpipes are still played in Hong Kong.
Thanks to British colonization, Hong Kong can become one of the most prosperous cities in the world.
In sixth grade I watched a video of hong kong people living on boats in crowded conditions due to being priced out of their city. And I don't know why a subject of the British monarchy is so blatantly supportive of their antics- they don't benefit you- dost citizen?
@@elenamichaels9658 Those living on boats are largely Tanka people and they do that by choice. There are public housing built every year from 1960s all the way to the handover. Housing crisis that you talked about pricing people out did not become a thing until 2000s.
I agree 100%. I visited Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2000 and 2001. Everyone in Hong Kong were driving cars, everyone in Shanghai were driving old mopeds. Case closed.
Prosperous for a few, not for the majority. Back then you couldn't be promoted to the highest ranks in the civil service or in business if you were ethnically Chinese.
Really? Would you rather have lived under mainland rule back in the 60s and 70s?
British Hong Kong is the best
from the otherside of the equation : I wonder whats the number of brits who actually learn n can speak cantonese. or expats in general. or how many hk / cantonese culture imported into uk?
Probably minimal...
There were a number of British officials or scholars who could speak some level of Cantonese, but the most fluent ones came from the Indian subcontinent - they worked for the Brits, were less well-off and had to mingle with the locals more often. Some of their descendants have become permanent residents, studying in local schools and working in different kinds of jobs as fluent speakers of Cantonese. For the second part of the question, I know that "dim sum" is now in the Cambridge Dictionary, but not much else. Well, the tea culture itself was the biggest impact for the Brits but it occurred before Hong Kong was a thing.
@@keithkyli thanks for the insight
You have to understand that being English is a major crutch, because English is so used, it doesn't force us to learn other languages, so we're at a huge disadvantage.
It's unbelievably hard to learn Cantonese in HK, everything is so fast-paced that people get frustrated and starts speaking English 😂
I thought the British still had a lease on Hong Kong for a few decades. I remember seeing protests against China in Hong Kong on the news. What was that all about?
No the protests is about China intervening with our basic law allowing China transporting what China considers as fugitives back to mainland to be judge with China's lawsystem. Hongkong people consider that as breaking the law system of Hong Kong which means no freedom, China can just port whoever they think is a fugitive back to China instead of getting judged in HK
@@JKMT i thought china was given charge over security matters including secession
@@JKMT So is Honk Honk in full control of China now? Does the British still have a lease on the land or is the lease over?
@@JKMT it was also in part due to the law being set down from the CCP bypassing the usual local courts and judges and that the extradition as outlined in that law bypasses normal extradition rules and once again, bypasses local courts and judges.
That is why it is interferance with the Basic Law. Everything about its writing and what it permits bypasses the local courts.
@@drunkenmonkey1887 The Court of Final Appeal has held the extradition agreement is legal and I accordance to the Basic Law.You seem to think you know the law better than this highest court lol!
How sad, Common Law in HK is dead.
Chinese judges similar to British judges still make law where the legislature hasn’t made it yet which is called “common law”
“Hanover hangovers”… that’s a tongue twister of a thumbnail
im about to ride on a *ding ding*
I'll point out several more that I noticed as an Irishman:
1. Same plugs.
2. Double decker busses are the same manufacturer as Dublin bus.
3. Paving stones are the same as well.
My nan was so upset 😢
So is illegal to drink tea in hk?
Hk literally little England or London if you want to call .
When I was a kid, I saw British horse hair wigs and gowns being worn in court. At first, I think they are just acting in the movie.
Average UK hairstyle
can you guys make Macau? It was also hand over to the Chinese back in 1999, putting an end to the Portuguese empire.
During Japan's WWII occupation of Hong Kong Queen's Road was temporarily renamed Meiji Dori! (Des Voeux Road became Shouwa Dori.)
Nice video.
Hong Kong should have remained a British overseas territory
No it should not have
Becareful of the wording SCMP! The Chinese are saying Hong Kong was never a colony!
Where are you seeing this? I've never heard a chinese person say that.
@@haozzy recently there has been changed to students textbooks where they say Hong Kong was never a British colony
@@haozzy I’m referring to the Chinese authorities - CCP, HK govt, HK legislators…
Nice video
Colonialism is obviously a terrible thing but it’s cultural fusion that can give a city its unique culture. Unfortunately, Pooh bear and his cronies will try to destroy that.
Is that right??? When I first visited Hong Kong in 2000, shortly after handover, everyone there was driving cars. The same year I visited Shanghai, everyone there was driving old mopeds. If you look at footage of Hong Kong in the 1990s under British rule, living standards were higher generally than mainland cities. Britain and Hong Kong can be proud of shared heritage in building one of the world’s leading cities.
china is taking the pandemic so seriously
America didn't take it seriously and we lost 18.3 million people.
Same goes with India, they lost 4.7 million people
Ten times 19.1 million what a total of people starved or killed by communist countries.
they havent published their numbers because its even higher
I bet Hong Kong people miss being under British rule
Only the rich miss being ruled by the British.
Not just Hong Kong, Malaysia to, MALAYSIA a part British empire
Thanks for the info except this video isn't about Malaysia.
You're like that colleague who jumps into other people's conversations screaming "what about me? ME ME ME!" Sit down and wait for your turn.
@@jp4431 Malaysia boleh mah, always need to mention something in their country
@@jp4431 lol
English language is not officially encouraged. Many families encourage english to assist prospects for their kids.
I was born in HK before 1997, I'm Chinese speaks Cantonese and HK today is China Hong Kong, I love my country (mainland China) as well as the British, and I agreed that HK was ever a British colony. They are my parents, I don't want to see any conflict among them...
If English language is one day stopped being taught In HK, HK will lose its relevance.
Of all, they only showed HK.
This is a really nice report, but unfortunately I find it hard to take it seriously, especially when it came to the law side of things considering how it is in China right now. They have taken over the running of the country in that they have removed truly free elections and the voice of the people which this video does not address. This is very upsetting as Hong Kong was still one of the shining jewels in the crowd and its British style governing system is a big part of that and now it has been tainted. It breaks our hearts and we truly wish for Hong Kong to be free again.
Big mistake for the chinese not completely erradicate british influence
They must start the process of decolonisation and erase all british's marks from the city before 2047.
Same thing would happen with any democratic nation but since it's China an enemy of US not because it's a communist prblm arises.
Yes and yes what you mentioned is so true…. There is no longer one country 2 system the freedom of HK is gone and might be forever…. Even the HK culture is being diluted…. It is such an awful and disheartening sight
There were no "free elections and the voice of the people" under British colonial rule. Hong Kongers were treated like second class citizens.
@@slickrick2420 Furthermore local only allow to assume some higher position in the government less than 10 years prior to the handover
We can safely conclude that if wasn't for the handover
The british will not allowed local to assume high position in the government perpetually
And the sole reason they allowed local to assume higher position prior to the handover were to sow future discontent among the local and centre government just like how they did with all the former colonies with divide and ruled and sowing hatre and discontent for the former colonies example India, Pakistan, Myanmar and etc.
British colonial is simply a nicer way of saying British Occupation.
@@SerBallister The British empire did awful things on literally a global scale and is responsible for much more deaths than Genghis Khan. Even he would be horrified.
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Hong kong was and would be nothing without britain
English widely spoken? Not in my experience. And that includes the help desk at the international airport. English in Singapore yes. In Hong Kong no
Hong Kong handover to China and Macao handover to China are disasters. Those two cities would have thrived as mega city states like Athens and Sparta with Cantonese/English & Cantonese/Portuguese mix.
They have always been historically Chinese and today they still are, and that’s how it should be.
@@daddydallas4789 chinese what? mandarin or cantonese? there are many chineses... get your facts right, I never said they dont belong to chinese, I said they dont belong to china/beijing
I guess that's why hong kong parliament was throwing raw American pork on the tables to protest the importation of American pork because Hong Kongers don't want american additives such as ractopamine in their pork.
I wonder how much longer these colonial vestiges will survive until China decides to erase everything completely. China will also change the way driving is done in Hong Kong.
It doesn't matter which side of the road we drive on. There's not much difference driving left or right side
You’re welcome, Hong Kong
this is the first video I have ever seen to be proud of British food😅
I thought that tea was Chinese?
just add milk and sugar, then export it back to the Chinese in Hongkong and voila! new identity! efficiency at it's best!
@@xiaolieliu1860 conveniently forgetting its indian tea leaves and boom! new narrative! wokeness at it's finest!
its obviously a Pastel de Nata , totally Iberian (Spanish - Portuguese)
Hong kong is now a mini china. Curre t Law is not from UK
Also internalized racism. Can't believe you guys forgot that one.
Yep, white worship, self hating/mainland Chinese hatred and deep seeded racism towards south east Asians. Especially those with darker skin.
Social credits -10,000 points who display it
What is going to happen after 25 years ?
One of the less attractive aspects of HK is its attitude toward Christian evangelism: mainland China does an excellent job of simultaneously protecting religious freedom while at the same time strictly enforcing separation of church and state, placing personal privacy in public above invasive evangelical practices. Not so in HK, where your personal privacy may be invaded anywhere anytime in public by someone approaching you and asking something like "Are you saved?"
Same names as Belfast Northern Ireland. After the same people too.
freedom, democracy, government accountability and transparency noticeably absent from the list
and where is Jackie Chan house.?
Widely spoken? Debatable. I went there last year and I had a hard time looking for locals who can understand and speak basic English.
i still drink earl grey today
But Hong Kong was not a colony of Britain, ask the new chief executive.
Not only that but Beijing Tiananmen square massacre never happened, or so they would like you to believe
I really want to visit Hong Kong 😅