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Jerry, Sad to inform that quite a lot of HK people are brainwashed by Western media. They thought Western media is supposed to be impartial and objective. But as a journalist working in Australian media for 28 years, I eventually found it just a NARRATIVE with obvious political agenda behind. Many of us were brought up in the British colonial era, we were educated and taught to believe the true value of Western democratic idea. 2019 HK Riots simply shattered all this. But there are still quite a good number of HK people believe every word from the West. They are being led like herds, no logic, no critical thinking, no reflection of what is right or wrong, whatever the West says have to be right, whatever the Chinese do have to be evil. The most serious damage of British colonial rule in HK as I can see is getting some HK people to forget their national identity, their ethnic heritage, and to falsely believe British Monarch is their daddy and mum. When I visited the Westminster Abby last September, I was amazed how solemn and God fearing that the British Government in upholding democratic ideal "for their subjects"in many ways, but when it comes to colonial rule and geopolitics, democratic ideas is just a camouflage for its hegemonic geopolitical design.

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You are lucky Jerry. Even today, some of my family members are die-hearted colonialists I am afraid to say. They live in the bad memory of the past. They were baptised in the age of ideology, when class struggle ruled in China. But thanks to Deng, Chinese leaders after him, and the collapse of Soviet Union & the Eastern Bloc, China has learnt from them and dramatically transformed. It renders new meaning to socialism, giving new hopes to all. Last, thanks again for your great contribution indeed.

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