27 July 2010 - I like to pick up a subject that seems to be widely reported during my holidays in Japan: Horrible Hong Kong tour guides giving mainland tourists a poor treatment. Last week there was another incident of shouting and abuse, but a clever tourists filmed the whole incident and put it on the internet. Consequently, the incident is making headlines, including in China. One wonders why these tourists are putting up with such foul behavior, but it is also typical that mainland tourists are still treated as backward peasants in Hong Kong. It would go a bit too far to call this racism. It could probably best be labeled as class snobbery, which is a bit ironic too, as most mainlanders coming to Hong Kong are far wealthier than most Hong Kongers. It seems Hong Kong mentality is a bit backward here.
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