nothing for hatred for those mean girls at the club... how are you going to be well educated AND racist... it's absolutely baffling
To me it's almost as if "Hong Kong the city" and "Hong Kong the home" are two completely separate characters, like there is so much to love about this place and yet I can never entirely situate myself within it???
interesting u feel that way cuz i always thought my own discomfort was a function of being an ethnic minority but perhaps it is just an attribute of the culture?
i am so sorry, i am sorry that you feel like an outsider even when you call HK the closest place as your home, i am sorry that your friends made fun of you, i am sorry that you need to go through all that. being a "typical" hong konger, I don't know why our city has never been able to embrace the diversity and just see people by their characters but not their skin colors or accents. everything you experienced here growing up is part of you. i hope you will find your place in wherever you go next.
thank you so much kelly <3 <3 your vulnerability in your writing was really inspirational to me and so it means a lot to me that you found it enjoyable!!
Great post. I’m American but lived in Hong Kong for 5 years, most of it was spent doing my undergraduate degree at HKU. Coming from the American South where I was very aware of White/Black racism I was unprepared for but perhaps shouldn’t have been surprised, about the local issues with racism against South Asians or other people. Obviously there are good or bad people anywhere, but that doesn’t lessen your very real pain, and reading this made me remember sad moments I saw that during my time there. I am sorry for what you went through as a child, nobody deserves that, and it is sad to hear because so many other parts of Hong Kong are so beautiful. I loved your beautiful descriptions of parts of Hong Kong, which made me nostalgic for some parts of my time there. Dunno if this will resonate at all but I wrote this song about Repulse Bay and your description of drinking on the beach reminded me of it, so i thought i might share: https://open.spotify.com/track/0RhQXbZTB3qQek7ltS3JlH?si=FxUeJ2DoRI-IFHkp2nh9rg anyway thank you for sharing your story and photos, and wish you all the best
thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on the piece and the song! it's so evocative of the tranquility you get and also the melancholia of feeling things changing so quickly. there are tough moments but there's also much to love about my experience there and the warmth i received from my close friends and family and most of the time that's what i remember from it thankfully.
nothing for hatred for those mean girls at the club... how are you going to be well educated AND racist... it's absolutely baffling
To me it's almost as if "Hong Kong the city" and "Hong Kong the home" are two completely separate characters, like there is so much to love about this place and yet I can never entirely situate myself within it???
interesting u feel that way cuz i always thought my own discomfort was a function of being an ethnic minority but perhaps it is just an attribute of the culture?
i am so sorry, i am sorry that you feel like an outsider even when you call HK the closest place as your home, i am sorry that your friends made fun of you, i am sorry that you need to go through all that. being a "typical" hong konger, I don't know why our city has never been able to embrace the diversity and just see people by their characters but not their skin colors or accents. everything you experienced here growing up is part of you. i hope you will find your place in wherever you go next.
such a lovely snapshot of Hong Kong and revisiting friendships and the ever present question of why do I feel this way????!!!!
thank you <3 at this point the only constant in my experience is constantly meta-analysing my own thoughts
this was a beautiful read ananya, thanks for sharing <3
thank you so much kelly <3 <3 your vulnerability in your writing was really inspirational to me and so it means a lot to me that you found it enjoyable!!
Great post. I’m American but lived in Hong Kong for 5 years, most of it was spent doing my undergraduate degree at HKU. Coming from the American South where I was very aware of White/Black racism I was unprepared for but perhaps shouldn’t have been surprised, about the local issues with racism against South Asians or other people. Obviously there are good or bad people anywhere, but that doesn’t lessen your very real pain, and reading this made me remember sad moments I saw that during my time there. I am sorry for what you went through as a child, nobody deserves that, and it is sad to hear because so many other parts of Hong Kong are so beautiful. I loved your beautiful descriptions of parts of Hong Kong, which made me nostalgic for some parts of my time there. Dunno if this will resonate at all but I wrote this song about Repulse Bay and your description of drinking on the beach reminded me of it, so i thought i might share: https://open.spotify.com/track/0RhQXbZTB3qQek7ltS3JlH?si=FxUeJ2DoRI-IFHkp2nh9rg anyway thank you for sharing your story and photos, and wish you all the best
thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on the piece and the song! it's so evocative of the tranquility you get and also the melancholia of feeling things changing so quickly. there are tough moments but there's also much to love about my experience there and the warmth i received from my close friends and family and most of the time that's what i remember from it thankfully.
No hate but do you have something against capital letters
this feels like a reading long poem, i love it.
ahhhh this makes me feel so happy~ thank you so much!!!