Hong Kong viscera

On the visceral level, Hongkongers have an unmistakable sense of their identity and rooted common culture. But the colonized mind suppresses the local mind to think outside of borrowed terms when it comes to ‘rationally’ describing the big picture of Hong Kong. They often revert back to rehearsed cants – Hong Kong is a place where east meets west, an island of barren rocks turned economic miracle, a free economy, a modern city … This is the colonized mind of myopic self-congratulating winners. From the cold war era to the age of neo-liberal globalization, the colonized mind had internalized uncritically all tenets and values of modernization, westernization, developmentalism, free trade globalism, Thatcherism and, increasingly prominent after 1997, Chinese nationalism.