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Essay On Mainlander Culture

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After the interview, I find something is fact, something not. Also, it has something just our cultural difference with mainlander. “Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts” (Zimmermann, 2015). Our behavior affected by culture. Hongkonger and mainland are two difference culture group. Hong Kong’s colonial past is a reason to make “we (hongkonger)” are different with “they (mainlander)” (Ko, 2012). In our daily life, mass media usually post mainlander done some unhygienic, impolite or panic buying something in Hong Kong. This information is coming from mass media, over time we may have an inflexible stereotype toward mainlander. Such as mainlender is dirty and unhygienic because they excrete at road; they are impolite/ rude, they sit in front of the shop. Those behaviors make hongkonger have a negative image to mainlander. However, this behavior is it popular? Or, it 's just a special case, it is the hyperbole of the mass media? The stereotypes will make us have a negative attitude toward mainlander. For example, if I have a concept that mainlander are dirty, …show more content…

Prejudice means some hongkonger used “an unjustified negative attitude toward people(mainlander) because they are members of a specific social group” (Allport 1954). Even discrimination - “the behavioral manifestations of that prejudice/ prejudice ‘in action’ ”(Koester&Lustig, 2009). Such as mainlander need pay more than hongkonger in some pharmacy, when they buy same things. This behavior can become discrimination. It comes from hongkonger have prejudice, they may think mainlander are richer and they always panic buying something (e.g. milk powder, medicine), then make hongkonger having enough resources. To protect hongkonger rights, they think they need to do something. This thinking lead discrimination

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