I found out what HK people are like every early on when I moved there in 1990 from Canada. I was in Wellcome Supermarket in TST and a guy walked by and bumped into me. He didn't say anything. So I got really annoyed and followed the guy. I saw him with his back to me looking at some goods in the aisle. Aiming for revenge, I flexed my shoulder, went straight for him and bumped him in the rear shoulder as hard as I could. It was a nasty NFL type hit. To my surprise the guy didn't look back. He just kept looking at the goods that he was looking to buy. That's when I realized HK people are just like that, they can tolerate and ignore the most rude stuff, probably because it's a fast paced and very crowded city. So stuff like a driver telling me he doesn't know, who cares. I'll just go ask the next local I see, head to the information counter or figure it out myself. No need to get in a huff about little things like that because if you do, you you won't survive in this Territory. Someone stares at me in the elevator, I'll stare back and they'll meekly look away. Just hold your ground and they'll back off. As for locals being helpful, my first month in HK I needed to make a resume. I went to an office and asked one of the staff if I could use their typewriter. They quietly gave me some paper and led me to an empty desk with a typewriter. They didn't say a word. They just let me do my business. It was very nice experience and yes I was able to get a job after that. Some people would interpret that as why didn't they say anything to me, that's so freaking rude LOL
@@Tikiawuw Grow a couple is all I can say. I've had rude service in Canada and US and I never let it get under my skin. Have you ever flown Air Canada? Worst Flight Attendants I've ever experienced
Truth and I met the nicest persons in mainland China but not in HK so never ever again, China has it all. Btw Europe is another rude place overall be it the poorer countries or the rich ones.
I think from a foreign perspective the "rude"ness of HKers is often a bonus to the experience, but as someone who is hypersensitive and who has grown up there their whole life I'd say that many of my earlier traumatic experiences were exactly because of these "rude", "impatient" and even "condescending" attitudes you receive from shop vendors, minibus drivers and cashiers. Just earlier today I got told off rudely by a cashier just because I made a mistake counting the cash dollars that I was supposed to pay - it was understandable cuz she was previously busy with many other stuff, but negative energy like this just seems to flow about nonstop around everyone within the city. I love HK for the many things it offered me, but this is a dark side of its people and culture that I would always gravely critique.
As a touriat when i arrived in hk ,asking for direction n shop owner use vulgarity in Cantonese by saying ," xxx turn right why u so stupid " Ultimately i was shock n not forgetting i understand Cantonese too
Me too I asked woman’s direction to the World War II monument at Central at her newspaper stand. She got so upset and said “I don’t know go away”. Later I found out it was just round her corner.
I did not know that people in China have become so polite! In HK I got misdirected deliberately twice when asking for directions. They even did it very politely ie. confidence tricksters haha.
Yes I was surprised too but a DD driver told me there was a direction coming from the top few years ago, it addressed the subject matter. After people changed.
one trip there and everyone would know it. just walk around the hotel one round and you would heard them swearing “diu” at least 10 times and the famous slamming of your plates and bowls when serving you. Because you grow up there , to you us a norm but to us is considered rude.
@@___Danny___ yes I know. People who live there don’t know it is the problem and when they go to trip in other Asia countries except for Japan, they think they are better than the locals. It becomes a cycle to reinforce their rudeness.
Yes, I find the people here in the mainland are mostly selfless. For example, a vendor will happily unpackage a half dozen umbrellas to show you what they look like open, and still not overcharge. I visit Hong Kong often and I find the people are generally closed off, similar to New York. BTW, love the text on your video. It must take a long time to do that.
as a fellow hong konger, I feel the difference too. I didnt have internet when I first got off my flight in beijing, went to a restaurant with my dad and the staff let me use her phone and explained very patiently with translator what we were ordering. smiling and all that. very sweet. I was really surprise as prior I had only been to shanghai and people are really rude there. but in hk, even as a fellow hker asking for a little more clarity people are so short and have no time for you.
We went to few big cities in mainland and people were very very helpful and nice. That’s why we were so shot to receive bad attitude from HK’s tourist bus drivers, taxi drivers, the clerks at 7/11, the old lady at her newspaper stand at Central and store owners.
I must say, maybe its just thay china is good. In france and poland, often england especially at the immigration where people are desperate to show their power, people have often been like HKers. I didnt even think much of it tbh until i grew up n started visiting china more recently
I've visited many international cities and basically all people are good everywhere. I've been to Hong Kong and Shanghai, everyone is nice on average. Bus driver was just having a shitty day.
hi i am from singapore and i am in the jewelry trade . even as the biggest gem fair is in hk , i refuse to go to hk . i just really dislike the place . mainly the people look very fierce and are quite rude . and the place is really like singapore except much more packed . i rather be in bangkok for the gem fair .
many Hong Kong locals are flooding into Shenzhen to have all the services because the costs are lower in Shenzhen but the services are way better as Hong Kong locals cannot tolerate the bad attitudes of local Hong Kong service workers themselves. For example, the Hong Kong waitresses in average restaurants are very impatient and super rude to anyone but white people from West Europe and North America. Yes, they judge white people by their countries of origin as well. Very snobbish, lol.
@@gtlover2011 Actually there were youtube videos capturing Taiwanese tourists exchanged angry verbal outbursts with Hong Kong shop staffs in the busy streets with the Taiwanese couples yelling angrily "黑店！”， “報警！“ and stuffs like that and the Hong Kong staffs told them "Go back to Taiwan! Hong Kong doesn't welcome Taiwanese" and stuffs like that, you can search that video.
give you example. I had my stuff and luggage with me inside a mall plaza so I was walking around with it and walked inside a cafe. And I see employees with like a racist/dirty look, and I’m like forget It just left. 🤣🤣🤣. I mean come on, can you at least show some kindness here. I’m struggling with my luggage and you give me a dirty looks!
Filipino American? You are not white or black. Even the white guys in America cannot tell you apart from Chinese. They call you Asian, often not putting American at the end too. If you are a Filipino, to HKers you look like a Filipino to them. In HKers mind, I dont think Filipino has higher social status to HKers than Mainland Chinese.
Seems like you are hoping to find some semblance from your childhood days but HK has changed in far too many ways, even for HongKongers. BTW, the places in the videos have always been crude.
thats y i donno why they like to visit HongKong. luckily u din get DLLM... lol!.....and everyday when i visit HongKong you can see ppl shouting on the streets DLLM and PKHKC bcos of petty stuffs
