Disappointed, Hong Kong migrants return from U.K. EJINSIGHT - ejinsight.com
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Unable to find a satisfactory job and integrate easily into British society, some Hong Kong migrants have returned home – but remain discreet for fear of losing face with their friends and former
  • GaveUp [love/loves]
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    3 months ago

    Yea, I too would hide myself from my friends if I ever did something as embarrassing as this

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    but remain discreet for fear of losing face with their friends and former

    Not gonna lie I’d be embarrassed too if I made a big deal of condemning my family and home then moving to AnKKKlo Island and hating it

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      It's like the ultimate humiliation. You betray your country and culture to go simp the wasps, and then find out their society is falling apart.

  • D61 [any]
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    3 months ago

    The financial situation is so bad in the UK that some of these folks can sell their Hong Kong property and have enough to buy a home for themselves and a rental property in the UK.

    Brexiter's gonna have Asian landlords and are not going to be happy about it.

    • GaveUp [love/loves]
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      3 months ago

      May as well also tattoo "I fucked up" on your forehead in both Cantonese and Mandarin.

      They both use the Hanzi system fyi it's the same haha

  • arymandias [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    In spite of all the challenges, 99 per cent of those interviewed in the survey said that they did not plan to return to Hong Kong.

    • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      If this was true, there would be no need to write this article. Even the very next sentence of the article questions if the survey responses are true

      • arymandias [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        I think you underestimate how lazy the average journalist is, most articles don’t need to be written.