Comments by "canto_v12" (@canto_v12) on "Hongkongers remember Queen Elizabeth" video.

  1. Did all the protesters faint in shock at the fact that Her Majesty's passing can be commemorated in Hong Kong? The world works in funny ways, if you don't terrorise each other and associate with violent seditious groups, the cops leave you alone. Shocker, I tell ya! RIP to HM. She did a remarkable job steering Britain's post-war and post-empire era, and it is perfectly appropriate and expected for former colonial subjects in an affluent, successful territory to mourn her and remember her as part of Hong Kong's story. I am one of them. That era is gone--and rightly so--but it will be a part of our colourful story forever.
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  2. @Glory Kun bleak only for rioters and secessionists. I respect the final decades of the colonial era for giving HK the foundation to develop in the 20th century. I respect the post-colonial era for being HK’s rightful home in the 21st century. Unlike those “peaceful” protesters, I have decided to learn and carry a balanced understanding of history, not emotional pining for a fleeting past tinted by rose glasses. I grew up privileged in the roaring 1980s and 90s HK but my parents had no social mobility and no human rights in the 1960s.
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  3. That era ended decades ago. Basically the end of WW2 also marked the decline of the empire. I would say India’s independence was the biggest mark of the end.
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  4.  @远山-k3s  certainly, many mainland citizens understandably feel that way. But Hong Kong was also a part of the mainland’s astronomical growth and path out of poverty. Our stories are all entangled with each other. As for other ex-colonies that still struggle with poverty, I don’t disagree—the results of colonial administration vary wildly depending on the economic potential of the surrounding area.
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  5. Different era, different security needs. The King or Queen wouldn’t be able to do the same today either.
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  6. I am fully supportive of improving Hong Kong’s governance under China as its rightful home. But at the same time I can express my gratitude to HM for her government’s skilled development of 20th century Hong Kong. She is in some way a part of the Hong Kong story, no need to be pro- or anti-anything to mourn her passing.
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  7. I would say by the time she accessed the throne Britain’s empire was already in decline.
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  8.  @tsumugikotobuki0131  Hong Kong was the last remaining major colony, but by 1997 it was already economically insignificant to Britain, and far less significant than, say, India which had already been independent for 40+ years.
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  9.  @kingunderthemountain8143  I suppose. I removed that claim, but I think this should be decoupled from the partisan politics of the 2019 unrest which deeply and unnecessarily divided Hong Kong.
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  10.  @ivanyu3930  hahaha. You protesters and “freedom” fighters love to tell others where to live. When you grow up and get a job, you will find out that HK doesn’t have job prospects for all career fields (if you are grown, apologies and my point still stands). I’m an automotive engineer. HK doesn’t make cars. You are free to ponder which country every internet commenter belongs in. But life happens, bro. Nobody wastes time choosing countries based on ideology.
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  11.  mar win  semantics, really. Tomato, tomato. It’s all in the past now.
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