Globalization Is Affecting The People Of Hong Kong

The world economy has improved rapidly as a result of globalization in past decades. However, many environmental problems began to emerge during the economic boom. Especially, in the middle of the 20th century after World War II, many countries restarted economic development and urban construction. At this time, severe air pollution influenced a number of regions. For instance, London was affected by a critical air pollution event, called the Great Smog of London, in December 1952. During a week, 4000 people had died as a direct result of smog and over 100000 were got ill by the human respiratory tract. Subsequently, from 1978 to now, China has seen a great amount of economic increase, with its gross domestic product (GDP) expanding hundreds time since the reform and opening up. Although China has obtained a huge progress with the globalization, it has resulted in a series of environmental problems at the same time. The aim of the essay is to discover how the globalization affected the environment on air pollution, soil pollution and biological invasion in China. And I intend to analyze the instances of the connection between air

Globalization is the process of the world becoming more connected. This process comes with major pros and some major cons. One country that suffers greatly from a negative consequence of globalization is China. China is currently suffering from air pollution. Air pollution has negative affects on both health and the environment. Although China is impacted negatively, the world impact overall, is positive.

We have all been in a situation where we have immigrated to a new country for different reasons regarding, better future, or education. In the book Jade of Peony, Wayson Choy describes a struggle of a Chinese immigrant family as they settle in Canada, through the perspective of three young children; Liang, Jung, and Sekky. Each child describes his or her struggle, while settling in a new country. The family struggles to keep their children tied to their Chinese customs and traditions as they fit in this new country. The Chinese culture needs to be more open minded as it limits the future generation’s potential. Chinese culture limitations are seen through the relationship expectations, education, gender roles and jobs.

Hong Kongers protest procession to “kick” out all mainland Chinese. They call the visitors from the mainland as “locust”. I know what mainland Chinese done is wrong, but that does not represent everyone will do the same things. Due to this contradiction, Hong Kongers start to give tourist nasty looks if they speak Mandarin. Some Hong Kongers will discriminate and abuse, force innocent visitors to open their suitcases to show what they brought in Hong Kong! Even though Hong Kong’s reversion to China occurs, a lot of local residents still despise Mandarin and simplified Chinese characters. Hong Kongers believe they have their own culture, currency and system. They have all the requirements to build a country, thus they don’t want mainland China to step in or get involve with them. Although I have not experienced this bias behaviors directly, I still this kind of discrimination should be

The Chinese-Canadian experience during the 19th and 20th centuries provides a classic example of history’s role in the nation-making process, the creation of an “imagined community”(Stanley 477). The anti-Asian exclusion era (1880s to 1940s) in Canada played a pivotal role in the emergence of the “Chinese” identity. Benedict Anderson describes the ‘imagined community’ as a community that is built through emotional ties with one another. Anderson states that the community "is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion,” (Anderson 1991). With this said, Chinese-Canadians felt a strong

The recognition of colonialism within Asian history, has lead to cultural diversity- labour law, styles of government and educational concepts have been shaped by the contrasting experiences of the French, British, Dutch or American colonial systems. In china, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia there is, in addition, the influence of communism. These contrasts and clashes of religious and political traditions are complicated further by the economic

Globalization means to develop or be developed to make possible international influence or operation. Hong Kong has been going through many changes recently which is slowly forcing them to globalize. The globalization of Hong Kong was a key series of events that has taken place in recent years that has significantly changed how Hong Kong has developed. Hong Kong has seen changes in their food culture, global customs and various western products have massively affected their Chinese culture in more ways than one.

We have spent a semester studying the effects of globalization on the world and business from currency exchange to trade policy. Through our discussions and readings, we have learned that globalization is a boon to business as much as it is a curse. In business, strategic alliance agreements help companies further develop process, foster market expansion and surpass competitiors. Although they both exist within the context of society, government and business are two separate entities which share a few features. Governments at even the most basic level exist to protect their citizens interests and to ensure that their needs are being met. While, business can protect the interests of a group or country, their primary reason for existence is to turn profits to satiate their shareholders and validate those who work daily to provide the good/service. However, in order to provide adequately for their citizenry, governments are compelled to think and act a bit more like businesses to ensure that their citizens remain content. India and China are two examples of countries which at least in some areas of federal policy are thinking like businesses and as such has formed, Chindia, what would be called a strategic alliance in business. In 2006, bilateral trade between the two countries reached almost 20 billion dollars and revenue has only increased in recent years (Economist). At first glance it seems that India and China are nearly equally matched;

This paper will use various scholarly articles to explain how China-Hong Kong relations ultimately impacted Hong Kong and resulted in the present-day pro-democracy protests (Occupy) throughout the territory.

Abstract: For this journal, Hong Kong will be introduced as Asia’s world city. Lecture notes and readings from class will be provided to back this characterization and fundamentally shape an analysis, particularly one aimed to make on the recent political and cultural events in Hong Kong.

When those words are being written down, a huge protest named “Occupy Central” is taking place in Hong Kong. At this critical moment of history, what impresses us first from the name of this protest is a power of space: Hong Kong people, who is regarded as the peripheral of China, by occupying the Central (a sub-center), strive for becoming visible and hearable to the center (Beijing) to resist their doomed future: an ostensible “direct election” in 2017, or even worse political sufferings that people cannot imagine. This highly intense political anxiety related to the mainland, since the postwar period, has accompanied Hong Kong people and been deeply internalized into their spatiotemporal experience. Based on a novella named “Nothing Happened” (什么都没有发生) from Hong Kong writer Chan Koon-chung, this paper tries to investigate how the Hong Kong protagonist’s anxiety of the future of his city, a temporal experience, however appears within a spatial, or precisely, geopolitical form, and furthermore, the paper tries to trace beneath the anxiety to the trauma that is interweaved with the (post)coloniality of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is a big city. She has four hundred and twenty-six square mile, but seven million people live in there. Even though so many people in here, the government still allows one hundred and fifty immigrants from China to live in Hong Kong each day. The people continued coming, even after the immigration laws had relaxed. We will have more and more people to live Hong Kong. If we still have one hundred and fifty immigrants to come to Hong Kong every day, we will have eight million people in 2016. It is a huge population for a city. It will affect the social resources for citizens. The immigrants have brought a lot of negative and positing affecting welfare, housing, and economy.

At a little more than 420 square miles, Hong Kong is comprised of more than 200 islands, with terrains that vary from flat lowland to steep mountains. Its population numbers more than 7 million people, with 95 percent being of Chinese descent. (USATODAY) The official language includes English and the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. Ten percent of Hong Kong’s population is Christian, while the remaining 90 percent practice Taoism, Buddhism, and other religions. (USATODAY) But, in a very long bout of history, Hong Kong as we know it today endured a struggle in their region before that wintry January morning in 1841, when British marines scrambled ashore and hoisted the Union flag on the western part of Hong Kong Island, claiming it for the British Crown. (lonelyplanet)

Over the last three months, there is a conflict going on between China and Hong Kong, because China 's powerful National People 's Congress Standing Committee revised the law of the way that Hong Kong picks its chief executive This policy made the people in Hong Kong extremely discontented, afterwards, many extremists in Hong Kong start the protest to fight against the Chinese government. There is no exact answer of which side is right until now. This paper is mainly supporting China side, and provide reasons why Hong Kong should make a concession for their economic development.

The uniqueness of Hong Kong in terms of geographical, social and political structure is fascinating to study. Ceded to the greatest imperial power of the 19th century, Britain, the transition of a mostly uninhabited barren island to a financial powerhouse with over 7 million inhabitants provides interesting insight into a city built on entrepot trade, laissez-fair capitalism and modern economic social programs that keep society functioning at a high level. This was not always the case, for much of its colonial history; Hong Kong was a haven for smuggling, economic piracy and exploitation for the impoverished Chinese immigrants who settled there.