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Racial Discrimination In Hong Kong

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Hong Kong Racial Discrimination

Description As an international city, multiculturalism do existed in Hong Kong. 6.5% of Hong Kong’s population is part of an ethnic minority, including Nepalese, Indian, Pakistani, and Filipino. But at the same time, racial discrimination in Hong Kong which has long been ignored is still prevalent in school, workplace and everywhere. The minority are difficult to bind in the Hong Kong culture and society. Hong Kong may not be as racist as suggested by the world map, made by The Washington Post, on racial tolerance published in 2015. Based on data from the World Values Survey, 71.8% of Hongkongers did not want a neighbor of a different race. Also, according to the news in 2015 from HKFP, a notice saying “avoid …show more content…

According to the economic view, groups develop prejudices and discrimination against the one who compete for the material resources. According to the Realistic group conflict theory, group conflict, negative prejudices and stereotypes are the result of competition between groups for desired resources. Using Robber Cave Experiment as an example, (CONTENT AND BACKGEROUND)
During the subsequent two-day cooling off period, the boys listed features of the two groups. The boys tended to characterize their own in-group in very favorable terms, and the other out-group in very unfavorable terms. This study clearly shows that conflict between groups can trigger prejudice attitudes and discriminatory behavior. This experiment confirmed Sherif 's realistic conflict theory. As a small city, Hong Kong is limited in many kind of resources. Ethic minority is therefore seen as the treat to their resources, such as land, job opportunity, medical resources and housing etc. through the competition of resources. In order to protect and promote their own interest, Hongkongers trend to lash out the ethic minority who are threating them and form discrimination towards the ethic …show more content…

If people in different race interact individually and frequently, the person’s racial membership will be downplayed and the person’s identity will be emphasized. According to the experiment, university students who are assigned roommates from different race show a more positive attitude towards cross-race interaction than the others (Shook & Fazio, 2008). Thus, government is suggested to set up some chance for the one-to-one interaction between Hong Kong people and minority.

Local and non-local citizen should have equal status. If one group feels superior and the others feel resentful, harmonious and interaction are unlikely to be norm. Therefore, government can promote equality between minorities and local Hong Kong people through education, in order to reduce racial discrimination. Conclusion To conclude, racial discrimination is still a serious phenomenon in Hong Kong affecting the soft performance negatively mainly due to the economic perspective, conformity and fixed social norm. To reduce the racial discrimination, It is suggested to set a shared superordinate goals, increased chance of one-to-one interaction between different races and bordered the social norm of citizens through education. Both government and citizen have to bear the responsibility , in order to make Hong Kong a world city, instead of a racist

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