HK-American: Ask me anything

Perhaps a little. But I do not think they are the most helpful solution. Imagine you have a restaurant and people don't come because your food tastes bad. You invest some money to renovate the restaurant and make the website look nicer. Perhaps more people will come to eat now because the decor is better and your website looks more professional. But, since the food sucks a nicer restaurant isn't going to fix much. This is how I see Trump's policies. They do not get at the root of the issue.

As far as the middle east, Trump tore up the Iran deal and they now tons of uranium so I think that is a danger to the middle East.

Tweeting is good but some people criticize the way he uses it and what he says on twitter. I think he could use it more effectively so I think it is hurting him with swing voters.

Yes ABCs have a distinct culture which is why we tend to form social circles separate from that of more recent ethnically Chinese immigrants as well as white Americans. I wish that ABCs were willing to bridge the gap with newer immigrants instead of just decrying them as "FOB." There are some areas where I do identify with my HKer friends more than my ABC friends so I consider myself a hybrid but leans more on the ABC side. I have to remember to not complain about Carrie to my ABC friends.

No I am very proud of the fact that I'm Chinese and a HKer. (Chinese in the West is just anyone that is ethnically Chinese). Most of the friends I grew up with a born in the US so I sometimes will brag about the fact I was born overseas and am technically not an ABC. I grew up eating Chinese food and I would never trade that for American food.

For some ABCs that faced racism the preference to be white is simply a desire to avoid racial attacks. We grow up in an environment where white is normal and Chinese-American culture deviates from White American so it makes other ABCs feel inferior. I grew up in a very Asian area and basically only had ABC friends so I never felt like we were inferior or awkward.

It sounds to me that the disatisfaction comes from different perspective on how to tackle an issue.

For example, I could be dissatisfied by all the benefits CA are doing, i dont think they tackle much of the root problem or that it ends up with more fraud than help, but it has been working for a long time and I believe the same dish cant please all tongues.

That's why voting is so important and the integrity of it is so important.
If there has been any fraud or cheater, whether or not it change the result, it is unacceptable. It's like a dangerous driver could get a ticket without having actually caused an accident on the road.

愛國者導彈 （#319328）好波。

點左膠真係好煩。
問Mail-in voting點可以有Integrity？叫我TRUST THE SYSTEM
我問咁多TECHNICAL 問題，一題都唔識得答。
用下個死人腦啦。唔用就越嚟越膠㗎啦。

It does indeed but I think overall his policies have hurt minorities than helped them. The opportunity zones and the criminal justice are quite limited in their positive impact and his harmful policies have a much larger impact.

Continuing to allow police brutality and his "tough on crime policies" hurt minorities significantly. Even though whites and blacks use drugs at about the same rates, blacks are significantly more likely to be arrested and charged for drug crimes. The rhetoric around drug addiction has been to criminalize them. Only with the recent opioid epidemic which effects predominately white communities has there been discussions about rehabilitation. Trump's ban on implicit bias training for federal employees limits ways to reduce biases in the way people view minorities. CA only recently has become liberal. As recent as the 1990s CA was very much at the front of an anti-immigrant and "tough on crime" wave.

I had very bad experience with ABC, since I’m in NYC, all ABC I met in real life or online forum are of mainlander heritage and have more sympathy for Mainland China, particularly in last year. Some Hong Konger called them blue ABC or simply “lefttard”.

And they have very weird fantasy for mainland China, to the degree that my mainlander FOB friends joked that they are more patriotic to communist regime than local mainlanders. They thought they can make a fortune in Mainland China, and received a biased massage from their mainlander parents about Hong Kong.

Very few ABC are sympathetic to the cause of Hong Konger, while they yells and fights for the cause of BLM, you can see example of MC Jin.
When I criticise their narrow views and weird fantasy, I got blamed as a rude guy. So I gradually gave up my efforts to know ABC friends and have very low regards to them. My ABC classmates only asked me how to type Chinese in wechats and giggled at my accents. At least, I have some mainlander friends respecting my point of view.


I think you heard of Facebook group, like subtle Cantonese trait, subtle Hong Kong trait. I got blocked by those admins, when I posted something about Anti-extradition movement.

In order to blend into environment in NYC, there are two paths: either joining the mainlander FOB group or ABC group, I’m comfortable with befriending with Hong Kong Fobs, fully embracing my Hong Kong side.

How big is your kitchen?

I think Sanders tried to replicate the Scandinavian welfare system in US, but he forgot Scandinavian people had North Sea oils and countries like Norway, are racially homogenous, social consensus are more easier to form.

I will prefer Sanders definitely, if he waive the student loans I had. But I don’t think he is any closer to working class people in mid-West, he is more appealing to millennials in bicoastal blue cities. But something Trump and Sanders are in common, both are against the TPP, for which trade deal will allow the inflow of products and services from Asia.

冇辦法喺行文入面去知道佢哋係本地或者移民，我唔知道加州點呀，我喺紐約呢邊見到有唔少土生土長嘅第二代ABC，反而英文係差啲嘅唔知點解，因為可能係同屋企教育有關，淨係講溫州話福州話

有啲Orthodox猶太人都係差唔多,明明喺紐約長大但口音好奇怪，我諗美國每一個族群嘅英文其實都有少少差別

但好老實講呢一個係好香港人嘅心態，你就算喺曼哈頓大公司做嘢，每一個人嘅口音同英文都係好奇怪，好視乎佢哋嘅背景

我上司有黑人拉丁猶太人，係符合文法嘅，但係講英文真係好視乎佢哋嘅階層同族裔嘅身份， 你聽到有人講Brooklyn accent 你就知道佢哋係猶太人，我會覺得係冇一個統一化英文，就算你係學一個白人嘅英文，你冇體驗過佢哋嘅文化同生活，其實都寫唔出嗰啲嘢

Do you believe a deep state in US?

不過我承認佢嘅寫法係唔似Reddit, 但係我會覺得冇需要去學白人嘅寫法，例如我嚟咗咁耐之後我都係用返英國口音同埋串法

Do you agree with BLM? And why?

if you don't mind, please ask your parent who knows Cantonese to teach you. As someone said previously, HK culture may vanish eventually if we don't make the effort to pass it on to the next generation. If you love HK culture, please help passing it on. You may think it doesn't help much, but it means a lot for HKers already.
That's the greatest thing we can do as a HKer who lives overseas.

移咗民或者打算移民果d， 應承我，將來有小朋友一定要教佢哋講廣東話寫繁體字

其實正常
你o係日常生活/返工/同屋企人朋友/fb ig 講野口吻都唔一定同上連登一樣，用 reddit 黎做 reference 就好似你話人講野唔似連登仔所以佢一定唔係道地香港人

上面嘈 choice of word 我又唔覺得佢有同 local 差好遠
同一個地方既人唔同群體都有唔同講野既 choice of word
老少少既人叫東鐵線做火車
有人講「依家/而家」有人講「呢家」
唔通佢又唔係香港長大咩