Kolaps
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HK has a high living standard, but I don't think HK is ever a democracy.
The general election that China central government offer to HK in 2017 is the MOST democratic system HK has ever had.
You are right about one of the main factor involving cross strait and HK-Mainland friction is pride.
Or rather the bruise ego of HKer and Taiwanese's superiority/inferiority complex. And I believe the superiority/inferiority complex apply to mainlander as well. This is unavoidable because one of the foundation of Chinese culture is honor/ego/pride. This problem can only be solved if all of us admit that although there are major political differences, but culturally we are one, we are one family, our fate is intertwined, 一荣俱荣,一辱俱辱.
You know during the initial decades of the reforms and opening up, the hundred of millions of peasant in rural China has to suffer in order to finance the development of the coastal city region. I can still remember that when the peasant population start to get into the city, there are a lot of friction between the city people and their poor backward cousin from the rural area. I can still remember the viciousness and contemptuous criticism that many directed towards them as a group.
But at the end, they all get along. The coastal urban and rural people did not become enemy. The Chinese people exercise patient and understanding and recognize that each and everyone of us in our struggle to strive for a better life contribute to the betterment of all.
Today China is paying the rural people back for their sacrifice. And all mainland people applaud the government effort in developing the rural area even though they know the fund comes from their collective pocket.
And I wish the HKer and Taiwanese could be as magnanimous and gracious towards their mainland cousin as well.
And I think it is obvious that we need each other, you just would not admit it.
The different between mainland case above and in HK-Taiwan...
There's a foreign controlled media who fueling the fire.
Unless you have better propaganda and willingly to play "dirty" too.
I give you a hint,
We all are Chinese people, a Confucian society, united under China and Chinese civilization.
But right now, we are divided by foreign ideologies like Democracy and Communism.