It is a SAR of China, and previously it was immersed in British racism. That is why the demoncraps here look down on their own relations from the mainland:

{Devils Advocate_10 mins ago

It always happens whenever there is a change of dynastic rule. After the republican government overthrew the Qing Dynasty in China, there were Han Chinese who deliberately retained their pigtails in order to show their loyalty to their overthrown Manchu masters and their distaste of the new republican government. Pigtail cutting campaigns were organised to deal with these 遺老遺少 and they eventually died out after decades of pigtail-cutting.
 
Likewise, the British dynasty in Hong Kong has left its own 遺老遺少, who want to wear their spiritual pigtails of "democracy" in order to show that they resemble their British masters in London instead of the Chinese in Beijing. CY Leung has proved to be a competent pigtail cutter for Beijing. Let us give him support so that he can finish his pigtail cutting job. ;-D, ;-D, ;-D}
 
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