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allege is the social inequality in Hong Kong and they blame this on the fact that Hong Kong is a colony where they feel that the well-being of the majority is subordinated to the interests of a foreign minority. It is also their belief that:
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(2)
the Chinese in Hong Kong including those in Government occupy a generally subordinate position;
there is an accumulation of huge surpluses for Britain on the one hand; and
(3) a lack of protection of the poorer classes
in the form of adequate education facilities and adequate housing on the other.
Their political views are still very much in the formative stage but generally the ideal of an egalitarian and puritanical society appeals to them. It seems likely too that they would come more and more under the influence of Chinese patriotic sentiments.
Group B:
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University undergraduates
The main body of student opinion amongst undergraduates in both the Hong Kong University and the Chinese University is as yet very moderate since they seem satisfied with the present system, and their future in Hong Kong seems assured. Even the more radical elements do not hold views as well- defined as those held by the elements in Group A. The outlook of the office-bearers of the various niversity student unions is predominately moderate. This applies even to the office-bearers of the Hong Kong Federation of Students. The more radical elements are usually involved with student publications. Some of them started to take an interest in public affairs whilst still at school; some no doubt owed their interest to the influence of certain expatriate lecturers and the more extreme students.
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Undergraduates of both universities feel consider- ably concerned over the apparently subordinate status of both the Chinese people and their language in Hong Kong. Also the laissez-faire attitudes of the Government in many fields are interpreted as signs of indifferent colonial rule. One subject over which they have expressed specific concern is corruption, particularly the more blatant forms of corruption in connection with gambling, vice establishments and drug peddling.
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