We are one country .......

and then here is a nice one about this topic:

And here is the song about that LOCUST story ........

enjoy it:


Here another version in Cantonese only - but different video:

About That Hong Kong ‘Locust’ Ad…

....here a little bit more info about that topic - this is from here !

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A Hong Kong newspaper ad decried Chinese visitors as ‘locusts.’ The text asks, ‘Are you willing for Hong Kong to spend one million Hong Kong dollars every 18 minutes to raise the children born to mainland parents?’

Hong Kong’s latest fissure with China deepened Wednesday after a popular local newspaper published an advertisement slamming mainland Chinese as “locusts” who swarm the city and drain its resources.

“Hong Kong people, we have endured enough in silence,” said the ad, which ran in the Apple Daily, a Chinese-language paper with an average daily circulation of about 288,000 in the first half of 2011, according to Hong Kong’s Audit Bureau of Circulations.

The full-page ad, which shows a locust looking at the Hong Kong skyline, was paid for by an online fund-raising campaign on Facebook and local site Hong Kong Golden Forum, which received more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars (US$12,900) from 800 donors in a week.

A man who identified himself over the phone as “Mr. Poon” and goes by the name of Yung Jhong online said he organized the campaign. He said he was inspired to act after seeing news stories about mainland Chinese mothers who crossed the border to bear children in Hong Kong so that their offspring could obtain Hong Kong citizenship and the benefits that come along with it. Local authorities say that some 40,000 mainland Chinese mothers gave birth in Hong Kong hospitals last year, straining the local health-care system.
“People want to protect the city for their kids, protect the education and health-care system,” he said. “Hong Kongers are welcoming to everybody, even those from China, to come and visit and shop. But they have to follow our rules, which is why we feel like we have to say something.”

See more on this story at Scene Asia
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One comment from my side:
The issue of mainland mothers giving birth in Hong Kong is a serious problem. You need to know that if the baby is born in Hong Kong it will be automatically a "permanent resident".
If the baby gets older - becoming an adult - this "baby" easily can apply for dependent visas for the parents, means the parents can permanently stay in Hong Kong. Do the math yourself - we are talking about an increase of several 100,000's of people living in Hong Kong within the next 20 years.......

Hong Kong 'locust' ad angers Chinese web users

During being away the debate got somewhat more heated........Now see this ------ bloggers from China recommend China Shoppers not to go Hong Kong for shopping.......please be aware how much MONEY Hong Kong people spend on the mainland for travelling, entertainment (whatever category.......) + besides the Hong Kong tourism - how much Hong Kong investments are pouring into China since more than 3 decades. So you better shut up - you penny-picking mainland tourists spending your BLACK MONEY in Hong Kong......Besides this we dont care if LV, Gucci or Prada will lose some turnover because of you not coming here. Because besides of this stupid LV + Chanel shopping everything else they are spending here is very LOW BUDGET !
Read this - from here - just click:
Hong Kong 'locust' ad angers Chinese web users
SHANGHAI — Chinese netizens voiced anger Thursday over a Hong Kong advert portraying mainlanders as "locusts", sparking a call for calm in a state newspaper after an increasingly bitter exchange of words.

The advert was published in Hong Kong's widely-read Apple Daily Wednesday by an anonymous group in retaliation for comments made by Chinese professor Kong Qingdong, who called locals of the former British colony "dogs".

"How dare Hong Kong people have the courage to say we are locusts. No one should go to Hong Kong," said Reneeshou on Sina's popular microblog service.

"This shows a limited sense of appreciation (towards China) and a lack of tolerance of an international city," another commented.

The full-page advert demanded action to stop mainland Chinese "infiltration" of the territory, showing a huge locust overlooking Hong Kong's skyline with the words "Hong Kongers have had enough!" and "This city is dying, you know?"

Mainlanders are a key source of revenue for Hong Kong, but there is growing discontent over the thousands of mainland women who come to give birth in the territory every year, taking up limited beds and pushing up costs.

Many Hong Kongers also dislike the shadowy role that Beijing plays in local politics and the flashy displays of wealth by mainland Chinese tourists.

Mainlanders, for their part, complain people from Hong Kong -- which is part of China but enjoys more economic and political freedom -- look down on them.

Kong made the comments in an online, broadcast interview last week after a video of Hong Kongers scolding a mainland woman for disregarding rules and eating on a train went viral on the Internet.

"Originally, I didn't agree with Kong Qingdong, but after seeing the Apple Daily ad, I just want to say that these people really are mad dogs," one outraged web user wrote.

However, others admitted the behaviour of mainland Chinese travellers in Hong Kong could be improved.

"I do not like the Apple newspaper ad, but I think people who have been to Hong Kong should reflect on what they did. The quality of behaviour should be improved," another comment read.

The recent, barbed exchanges have prompted the official Global Times newspaper to call for calm.

In an editorial Thursday, the newspaper said China and Hong Kong should grow closer on the basis of a "shared identity".

"The mixed mutual feelings are making things more complicated. More efforts are needed from both the mainland and Hong Kong," it said.

Copyright © 2012 AFP. All rights reserved. More »

The nuts professor Kong Qingdong: "Did I say Hongkongers are dogs? I didn't,"

is now saying that he has never said this................about Hong Kong people "are dogs" and other really disgusting comments.
Click here for the full story !
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However, according to a SCMP report on Sunday, the professor had denied calling Hong Kong citizens “running dogs for the British government”, adding that both mainland and Hong Kong media outlets had “maliciously twisted his speech”.
"Did I say Hongkongers are dogs? I didn't," he was quoted by SCMP as saying. "I request all media outlets which have twisted my speech to apologise."

You can watch the video here.

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So this professor now is demanding the media to apologise to him.....??? So what you can see in that video is all a "trap", it is all words "later changed" or what ? By the way this is the typical lousy chinese attitude of not taking personal responsibility for things done personally especially the wrong things.

Always the "bad guy" is "somebody else". It is never "me".

This attitude is what makes it so difficult for all to run proper business with many of chinese companies. They still do not understand one principle:
It is not to blame who was doing something wrong - it is to find a way how to avoid this "mistakes" in future and to have a better performance. 

People make mistakes - if they are chinese or whatever nationality - this is normal life.

In chinese business life the so-called "loose face" attitude is much too much exxagerated - this is old-fashioned. Besides this despite being a chinese - everybody has a "face", if chinese or not.

The idea of learning from the own mistakes is NOT existing (because it is always "somebody else"doing that mistake).

University professor Kong Qingdong - some more here !

After this racist comments from that professor (just wondering what he is telling his students about Hong Kong or foreigners.....). Now it seems that he denies having said this & that this was some make up by the TV Station (similar to that - I cannot find the source anymore - but I read it earlier today online....).
So here some comments for you - this is interesting:

Hong Kong people are dogs !

This is a professor spreading his "opinion" about Hong kong people live in TV - slightly disgusting. It seems later he apologised for his talking - but it doesn't matter he apologise or not: It seems this guy is full of prejudice against Hong Kong people & "over - proud" of being a "mainland chinese".
Actually if you have been to the mainland already & especially often & not only in the glitzy cities like Shanghai - you know how dirty it is everywhere in the mainland & what kind of behavior the people have there..........(by the way there are still a lot of streets in Shanghai the people let the kids pee & shit on the street..........).
Please see yourself here:


This is what it was all about (this is from here - click !)
Watch: Bitchfight between mainland tourists eating on the Hong Kong MTR with local passengers

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A video of a quarrel between mainland tourists caught snacking on a Hong Kong subway train with local passengers has burnt up the internets in both Hong Kong and the mainland. Since the video was uploaded to Youtube five days ago, it has racked up half a million views, and a few hundred thousand more on various Chinese video sites. Here's a quick summary of what happens in the video:

At the start of the video, a Hong Kong man demands an apology from the girl and her mother but the tourists refuse, saying it is not a big deal. Others then join in on both sides.

One of the Hongkongers presses the emergency button and notifies platform staff. An MTR employee tells the tourists they can't eat inside the train and a mainland woman says sorry in English. A Hong Kong man then says sarcastically: "Oh, she knows English".

A mainland woman tries to explain the situation to the MTR staff member but is interrupted by the Hongkongers as the quarrel resumes. At the end of the video, a Hong Kong man says: "No need to speak to them. That's what mainlanders are like."
Huang Xiangyang, senior writer at the China Daily, describes the video as a "symbol of the 'culture clash' between Hong Kong and the mainland":
Internet users from the mainland overwhelmingly pointed to Hong Kong residents' sense of superiority - something that was routinely felt by the less wealthy mainlanders when they visited Hong Kong before its return to the motherland in 1997 - only a very few took a neutral stand, noting that mainland tourists should learn to behave themselves while Hong Kong people should be more tolerant and not overact.

I would no doubt have reacted in the same way as most of my mainland compatriots if I had not lived in Hong Kong for five years. In fact, I was expecting to experience discrimination when I was first sent to the city in 2000 to work for the local bureau of our newspaper.

After all, I had experienced not so subtle discrimination in big cities such as Shanghai where I could not speak the local dialects. Given Hong Kong's history as a British colony for more than 150 years, what more could I expect?

Yet my fears never materialized. Instead, my five years living and working in Hong Kong are some of my most pleasant memories. Instead of enmity and discrimination, I was shown hospitality and care by the local people, who were always polite and ready to help.
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And here some part with english subtitles:


Controversial ultra-nationalist Peking University professor and 73rd generation descendant of Confucius Kong Qingdong (孔庆东), who recently handed out the Confucius Peace Prize to Vladimir Putin via two Russian babes, does not like the Hong Kong MTR bitchfight that we just saw taking place between mainland tourists and local passengers. He has some harsh words for the people of Hong Kong, who he thinks are mostly bastards, running dogs of the British, and thieves. With English subtitles thanks to Youtuber @languagelover7.

This is one in the first video in this post ! Kong Qingdong is his name & he is a Beijing University professor !

Interview with the driver No. 1

Believe it or not: Before the driver who hit & overrun little Yue Yue in Foshan, turned himself into police he had an interview with a local radio station - here the translation - a translation of the "mind-set"of this guy, everybody with at least some common sense can do by themselves:
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·         Reporter(R): Are you the one who ran over Yueyue?

·         Accident driver (A): I didn’t want that happen either. I’m just a driver.

·         R: Why did you call her father?

·         A: When the accident happened, I was on the phone.

·         R: Why didn’t you stop after running into something? Did you know you had hit somebody?

·         A: I knew I’ve run into a person. I was scared. If you hit somebody, you would ran away too.

·         R: Don’t you have any conscience? Why didn’t you save her?

·         A: I was too scared. I am just a driver.

·         R: How many years have you been driving? Don’t you know hit-and-run is a very severe crime?

·         A: I’ve been driving for 2 years. Who never makes a mistake? As you can see, that kid walked and looked around. If she walked more carefully, how would I run into her?

·         R: Was there any heavy goods on the truck?

·         A: Yes, that’s why I stepped on the gas.

·         R: Now how do you like to deal with this accident?

·         A: I want to offer them some money. But I don’t want to show up.

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·         Later reporter called the accident driver again:

·         R: Do you want to turn yourself in now?

·         A: No. I’ve asked my friend to send my wife and kids over here from Guangxi. I’ll find a job in the construction site where no one knows me.

·         R: You want to hide yourself for the rest of your life?

·         A: I’m scared. I didn’t mean to (run over the girl.) Everybody makes mistake. I have a wife and a 14 year-old kid. Without me, they can’t survive.

·         R: One should be responsible for his own fault. You have kid too, don’t you know how Yueyue’s parent feel?

·         A: so what?

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·         R: How is your feeling now?

·         A: sad..haha

·         R : At this point, you still laugh?

·         A: It’s a bitter smile. You have no idea how much pressure I’m under now. One word-’scared’. I would hide until I couldn’t anymore. I know sometime it take more than a few decades to catch a murder. I’m over 30 year-old now. In 30 years, I might have died. This whole thing would have been forgotten. I know how to deal with the cops. I would shy away from the big cities, just stay in the suburbs and don’t make big money.

·         R: Seeing your kid, wouldn’t that remind you of the little girl you ran over?

·         A: Why should I? She wasn’t even my kid.

·         …

·         R : How would you like to compensate the losses of Yueyue’s family?

A: I also have losses myself. I didn’t get my salary. I told my boss there was some emergency in my family and just quit the job
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He said he has some losses himself because he didnt get his salary: His salary maybe RMB 1,500 - approx USD 240 !
Actually the excuse to quit a job "some emergency in the family" is a very popular excuse in China.
Not only if you are a driver just killed a 2 year old girl.