Echoes of the past: bagpipes still played in Hong Kong 25 years after handover ended British rule 

Yes, it evokes Anglo Saxon superiority mindset and slaves hang over. While the slaves felt inferior and abandoned their own heritage and music instrument in favor of the master musical instrument. Real loser, 25 years and still getting a hang over with this musical instrument. Grow a spine please!

@doe sky based

Why is this not their culture too?

@@theironlemon_4156 its part of hong kong customs

It’s gross. They should revert to Asian customs

@@gondar6181 yeah we should stop eating mcdonalds and other western cuisines cause you said we should revert to it. matter of fact lets use swords instead of guns since the westerners technically invented it

Of course you would say that. It's your culture. I don't see Caucasians dressing like Asians and doing dances or using instruments 🤣🤣 It's your culture. You all will LOSE it if it was reversed

Lol what culture? Colonial culture?🤣🤣

@@humansarecrazybeing5730 still better than the communist up north I mean they did started the cultural revolution Which should be called cultural destruction

@@humansarecrazybeing5730 exactly.... it's not even Hong Kong culture to begin with....

@@humansarecrazybeing5730 survival of the fittest , rule of nature.

Thank you for building one of the best rail system in the world and letting us enjoy it for so long. What a marvellous design!

多謝！

End of an empire white boy

@@ab8588 I’m Asian

​@@Anonymoususer44569Don't listen to the racist. They come in all shapes and forms - their main emotion is resentment and hatred.

I was sad on that day but now that I’m older and wiser, it was clearly the historically correct thing to do. Plus we still get to hear the bagpipes.

Is brits learned that the hard way😂😂😂 the Scots love their kilts too much

@@bigships think you mean the English the British are the Scottish, Welsh, northern Irish and English. Just thought I’d let you know 😊

​@@bigshipsyou mean english? That was like 300 years ago anyways before the union in 1707

@@Hungrycats1 yeah I did

Hmmmm not even close stop trying to put british aesthetic on hk ik ur your proud that your country did this not cool but weird flex but go off

@@tatsuyaaikawa7185 Learn English and try to understand what I mean. British aesthetic has been incorporated to HK culture more multiple decades. Stop showing your ignorance :D

Wearing the skirt and playing the bagpipes is considered colonial remnant....then I suggest he should play the bagpipes with Chinese martial art costume like those wear by master "Wong Fei Hung"....and see what's the British people will say....

​@Angie S lol it's more of a shame on you looking down to some cultures

@@val.t7487 They'd probably feel the same way Chinese feel seeing white people wear traditional Han Revivaliat clothing: flattered.

@Angie S name a country which has never invaded. Not China that’s for sure.

@@VisulC True, it's whether they invade earlier or later: earlier and they'll get to assimilate the territory into their core and after a very long time people will treat it as part of their core, later and they'll probably not be able to erase what makes the territory and its identity before those memories cease to exist in the minds of the populace.

That's exactly what he is. He is an EMBARRASSMENT.

Already been criticized....somehow they fight for freedom but actually they prison themselves with coloniser's cultures or traditions.... These people have weird thinking...they just don't know what they want.

Destroying something because it is part of 'colonial history' is essentially destroying the unique identity of the local cultures and history. Oh wait, CCP did that and it's known as 'The Cultural revolution'.

@@RUTHLESSambition5 yeesh talking like that i could ask the same why your wearing western clothes, stealing our western culture. Cant you just agree on thay he likes the bagpipes without the colonial stigma.

@@bluefox6392 I live in America and my people helped develope ALL these products. We created the touch screen ect ect. They are in CHINA and not in the UK or America. Horrible rational

I think the trend of globalization in the past 200 years, though partly enabled through imperialism, would have led to the spread of cultures globally. I'd choose to look at the legacy of the freedom of press and speech, laissez faire business environment, and rule of law all from the British as "positive externalities" amongst a sea of dehumanizing policies and social prejudice.

People like you need to stop saying that the bagpipes are a legacy of British colonialism. This kind of talk is exactly what gives ammunition to the ignorant pro-China people to think bagpipes should be banned. The pipes have originated in Asia Minor a thousand years ago and it is fundamentally an Asian instrument. Many countries that were never colonialized still play it and it has nothing to do with imperialism or colonialism of any sort. The most you could say is that it was popularized by the Irish and the Scots in the contemporary context but even they have been the subject of English colonialism. It is not even technically a distinctively Western instrument per se by any stretch of the imagination so stop saying it is a product of colonialism to give the morons any pretext to ban it.

@@alvindurochermtl while I understand part of your comment, claiming they are an Asian instrument which has more relevance to China is nonsense. I’m aware that Scotland and Ireland don’t exclusively use them, but they are 100% a European instrument with the earliest “depiction” being Ancient Greece. I’m guessing you’re referring to the classic Anatolia claim, which is the incorrect instrument. The earliest bagpipe that’s ever been discovered is in Germany, and the British Isles has referenced them in the 14th century. They do not exist verifiably prior to this, and all the claims are STILL EUROPEAN. If you’re talking about Brittany and Galicia as places who weren’t colonised but use bagpipes, you may want to read about the Brittonic Community. They are actually historically tied to Wales, and the original settlers of the British Isles. So while I understand your concerns, China would have to essentially blacklist all British influence that is even applicable to their own country. They’d have to also get rid of the University of Hong Kong, HSBC, remove reference to Christianity, stop teaching the English language, override their law etc. I know China has its problems but I don’t think even the CPC would go that far lol. I doubt China even understands the contextual difference between reference to Scotland, England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. They literally used Highland bagpipes at the handover ceremony!

No Hong Konger I’ve spoken to ever complained about being a British colony and instead complained endlessly about how they’re treated by China

@@Elghast as a Hong Konger, we complain endlessly about everything. Most people cannot name any specific thing that China did to them.

Yeah i notice it too, troops from the commonwealth such as canadian, indian, and british were present there to protect hong kong until the japanese attacked the island in 1941.

Btw those scenes are from britain gate to troubled china (1932) the channel name is british pathe

Hhaha no ?

​@chips1583 He's not wrong. Ever been to Vancouver?

Oh yeah. It sounds really weird the first time I heard the HK Police Band play PLA songs with bagpipes. Weird and cool at the same time

Maybe not a certain separation

Scotland hasn't been independent for 317 years and I doubt that's gonna change any time soon

OP navy

yeah mee too🔥🔥🔥

This Year 2022 Singapore 🇸🇬 National Day parade did show case performance of Singapore women Police Force Bagpipes performance with the marching in open Ceremony of the Guard of honour contigents.

i’m from singapore & didn’t know this 😮

Auld Lang Syne

@@gamerairborne101 thanks

@@jacksewe123 No Problem

I wish!

@@AlbertXuY What's wrong with Bagpipes?

Based on what reason? They’re still using them and no plan to remove them. You should check out Macau, their parades look like they’re lifted straight out of the Portuguese soldiers. There’s nothing wrong with old traditions. The problem is when people try to appropriate colonial themes to lend legitimacy to their violent riots.

@@AlbertXuYwhy bro

You just made that up

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Victoria Institution (VI). My first encounter with bagpipes was on the Founder's Day. It's indeed a musical instrument that's majestic and commands attention.

I'm think is setapak high school

Maybe because the whites were not too kind to the locals in the past?

So to British Commonwealth countries too.

Stockholm syndrome

Maybe weihaiwei?

Indonesian: Memang udah diakui,cuman orang-orangnya aja yang gak tertarik main tas pipa. English: It's already been recognized,it's just the people are not interested playing bagpipes.

British* There is no Scottish as nationality

the best football club in scotland is irish remember that

@@MultiverseRaidenWarriors scotland is a nation within the united kingdom it's just in a union with england

@@jeanmatthews3899 how

@@MultiverseRaidenWarriors *sigh* Great Britain is an island, UK is several islands, on these islands are several nations (England, Scotland, Wales, [Northern] Ireland, etc.

Hong Kong was part of the oldest continuous civilization for thousands of years and it will remain part of the motherland. Colonial aggressions by racist colonialists won't be able to spread its poison in front of the great wall of steel forged by 1.4 billion compatriots.

@@AA-pz4pv Keep spreading you’re lies and communist propaganda. China shouldn’t fear America, believe me, it should fear the rise of the British empire because its coming mate. Unlike previous empires, the British empire dismantled, it never was broken. So many countries, to this day share a lot of love and affiliation with the U.K. and the Queen. The commonwealth is still alive and breathing. It’s like what China was, before its rise. It’s a sleeping dragon, or should I say a sleeping tiger, that will soon rise and free Hong Kong from being ruled by the iron fist in China. Than HK will be free to chose its own destiny. We love you Hong Kong #canzuk ✌️🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧✌️

Yes that would be great ! It would be great for Malaysia/ SG & HK to be under British rule again. Long live the Queen.

The 99 year lease was up and not renewed. Those who don’t want to be a part of China left Hong Kong in the 1990’s.

Western political system against a highly repressive…and poor…Asian context. Now that context is no longer poor and far less repressive than before, Hong Kong’s uniqueness has become obsolete. Which is to say, those people in Hong Kong who pine for the past, don’t really understand what they want. All the colonial flags in the world won’t bring China back into poverty for a second round of exploitation.

ER, NOT EXACTLY 'NOTHING'.

A lot of Indian troops from the time of the Raj were posted in Hong Kong.

Fake news. Only violent rioters and their financiers get their toys banned. Rest of us proudly respect our old traditions while moving forward.

That's a pretty simplistic creative way of describing this.

Bro it's just bagpipes, there's nothing wrong with appreciating something from a culture from your colonizers

bagpipes are practically imported from north africa and iberia the Scottish bagpipes are more famous because of scotland is part of the united kingdom

It's SO PATHETIC. It's like people in India. What did the Britts do to these people.. Sheesh . It was highly highly effective. They WORSHIP the Britts and caucasians

Maybe he likes the sound and doesn’t think of it that deep

这些人都是贱人，奴才！

@@sko1beer look what he dresses when playing that

@@leo-ds8en he’s wearing a dress lol

They already have, there's a Xhina town in every city in the UK ( every major city that is)

Why on earth should we be thinking with our ethnicity? We are our own people and Hong Kong is its own culture separate from China. It is a hybrid of British and Chinese and engaging in the British does not mean they hate the Chinese or think it's inferior. Just like how I, as a Caribbean, should not be expected to feign affection for Africa solely because of race, Hong Kong people should not be expected to feign affection for China for the same reason. We should be trying to move on from such racialist and ethnicist attitudes, not trying to resurrect them. If anything, you're the one with the inferiority complex if you can't comprehend that people can genuinely like cultures that aren't completely ancestral

@@jl63023 you as a carribbean doesn't have feign for africa cuz you might doesn't even know from which piece of land your ancestors were forced to migrate to carribbean for slavery. Also africa was an entire continent with diverse and different cultures, whereas china a nation dont know how did you compared both anyways. Also carribbean hardly use any native african languages other than English so culture of african ethnic peoples living in US carribbean and any other land during age if slavery literally lost their culture. Where as for Hong kong - china situation were very diff. Dont always compare every situation with each other it might looks same but its absolutely not.

@@Debarghaya_Mukherjee In my defense, I have seen people in prominent positions in my own region say similar remarks that "black people should reject colonial culture and restore African identity" by going all in and whatever African originated aspects remained. So, of course I imagined the situation would be somewhat similar but I guess I was mistaken with regard to the degree. But overall, it is still a case of hybridized culture. The parts of the British culture that have been accepted into HK culture will be their culture. 99 years of cultural separation doesn't go away and you can't just forcibly purge something that was essentially their culture for nearly a century. It would be wise to just accept that HK will never be (fully) Chinese culturally and will be its own unit from the mainland.

@@jl63023 Sure you’re right but didn’t we see Hong Kong protesters beat up those citizens who supported China. That’s not democracy or tolerance for others who see things differently.

But many HK people feel being enslaved by china.

@@MultiDivebomber That's the problem of their mindset....look at that guy wearing skirt and blowing the bagpipes... that's not the original culture or tradition of Hong Kong.... Those HK people that fight for freedom but they're the one who prison themselves for decades....

they are about to be enslaved by China

@@truthboom at least China won't put up board stating no Chinese people allowed to enter some of the parks....

@@val.t7487 The "Skirt" is called a Kilt worn by the Scots

No need ban instruments but need to change the outfit

@@val.t7487 why tho it’s not hurting anyone

@@monglianland3410 it's hurting their own self value which they see it well...when we played a specific music instrument from the origin country, we doesn't need to use the origin clothes...what the musician have to perform is their skill in playing the instrument.

@@val.t7487 I mean stereotypes of Chinese kids playing piano is common and the piano originated from Italy and that doesn’t devalue there culture or practices just adds on to them we shouldn’t judge individuals chocies

@@monglianland3410 didn't my comment said it's ok to play the instrument but doesn't need to wear the instrument country origin clothes to perform it ... Let the world know, you're a different individual from different countries can perform the music instrument very well

Nah I’m pretty sure they just really like the funny looking instrument and absorbed it into their culture

No, listen and read before you make a dumb comment, and watch the whole video first.

Keep killing your own Hamite 😂

@@osama7639 Look at Ukraine 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 U people are turning on each other. I love it

@@thekhoifish0146 They were brainwashed. Kids taken from their family's and put in boarding schools. They did the same thing here to Indians kids here. We are just now seeing the horrors those kids went through

How many money did Winnieh the Pooh pay to you?

@@rogerroger730 is that all the garbage you can say? How much does the US pay you to promote US hegemony? I don't get pay from the COVID stimulus check. I bet you are thrill to to get your $2100 twice and more. Guess who's paying for it!? I guess you're happy to propagandize for US, loser!

Lol

And China wasn’t imperialist

@@peteland2919 Oh definitely not! China was never imperialistic. They could've conquered the whole world at their peak. Yet they didn't. They could've colonize the whole of Africa even before Columbus set sail on his punny ship.