the article focuses on academics but ive felt this sentiment overall since ive got here. there are a lot of brats, on both the expat and the hk chinese side, and a 'big fish in a small pond' mentality. people are spoiled and soft here. now dont get me wrong, nobody wants kids facing knife fights in the streets but there is a general lack of knowledge of what life is like outside the hong kong bubble, what hard work is, that things are not just given to you because you are the only child in a family full of aunties and grandparents or that youre actually not that hot.
people have an over-inflated sense of who they are and therefore, what they think they deserve - being the operative word - not what they earned.
and its not like new york. there are a handful of arrogant jerks regardless of the country but when you come to a city as tough as new york - where if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere - and you do "make" it (however you wish to define it) then at least you know what struggle is and you know what it takes to work hard.
these hk spoiled brats dont understand that. i see it everyday with the young associates. they think that sitting at their desk and chatting on facebook equals work because youre physically there. they seem to believe the more they moan about "oh so busy, so busy - aiya" that means hard work.
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in other hong kong news, the rubber duckie is in town. he's very big and very cute. hope the pollution from the harbour doesnt hurt him!!!
