Am back on freedom isle.
As to privilege, wish I was as previleged as Hong Kong student when I was in university. My tuition had to be earned, saved, and paid, as opposed to being subsidized by tax payers who has to work, scrimp, and save, as well as pay taxes.
As to English learning, the students study more diligently, and on average better at English than those in Hong Kong.
As to Chinese learning, the mainland students study in mandarin, the standard, useful throughout greater China. The Hong Kong students mostly study in Cantonese, essentially irrelevant everywhere except Hong Kong, and impractical for most subjects except ... cooking, eating, shopping, gambling, and swearing, and only in Hong Kong and Guangdong province, and Macau.
There shall be much learning coming up for these kids who mostly grew up in what essentially is a very 'narrow' environment, and they shall learn they cannot get in the way of ordinary and productive people without consequences.
There is a reason why we diligently take the coconut and fat jack here there and everywhere, and why they do not know Cantonese other than what they manage to learn from going to restaurants. |
