To: Rarebird who wrote (169652 ) 3/19/2021 9:49:57 AM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217591 When one delves into the details, turns out that the Cantonese are not particularly special, at least not any more special than folks from Shandong, Fujian, etc etc etc, however whenever there are rebellions and long distance explorations and generally adventures and such to be done, the folks of those provinces tend to participate / engage. Hardly anyone in HK is of HK and therefore did not come from HK. The ancestral villages are all over the place of China and near-China. All per reckoning by Chinese custom w/r to where one be from, following the paternal lines. There is a sub-group present amongst all the provinces’ population that tends to stand out and they are present for a historical reason. The Hakkas britannica.com The name means “guest people” and in possession of the <<secret to life>> such that they transplant easy and make it anywhere, from S Africa to Iceland, NYC to Bombay, Australia to Russia, Israel to Latin America. The description you gave fits the hakkas as the number 8 fits between 7 and 9. The hakkas are likely not easy for most, even Hakkas, to discern amidst a crowd of Cantonese or any other -nese, and often must identify selves by declaration, but there ways are recognizable to each other even as some ways shared by others google.com So, given that HK was and remains a rock, populated by migrants since its relatively short history, unlikely the best of Hong Kong went anywhere, even as more of the best arrive in HK. The hakkas generally do not exercise in discerning differences openly, or perhaps even instinctively, except by whom associate with, as that is the defining trait of good guest people, to be the best / near-best no matter where be at. The hakkas have own language, cuisine, architecture, ways of raising kids, etc etc, but arguably the ways are not distinguishable from best-practices anywhere . Likely Hakkas do not think in terms of ‘best’ or ‘worst’, but only ‘different’. Is what guest people do, and should do. Architecture no longer current google.com