A little bit of voice from a mainland student

I saw a few articles by @Milly and @abcd, which contained a lot of questions about the attitude towards mainlanders. After reading everyone’s comments, I found that the concept of the mainland and Hong Kong is very big (or essential) The difference, on a whim, decided to register an account, and share with you a little point of view and ideas as a mainland student. Naturally, there will be many views and opinions that are completely different from yours in the article. I hope you will be merciful and "seek common ground while reserving differences", thank you.

I am a student from mainland China that you say (should be about the same age as you?), let me introduce myself first, I am an international student who has been in Australia for six or seven years, and I am concerned about the Occupy Central incident, the Umbrella Revolution, and the extradition law The disputes raised have some basic (shallow?) understanding.

First of all, I am very grateful that you are really willing to listen to the voices of ordinary people in mainland China, instead of asking simple questions like "Don't you want to be free? Are you all so realistic?" Well, let me first talk about a very sad reality. If it weren’t for the increasing development of China in the past few decades, I might not be able to communicate with you like this at all. To put it to an extreme point, I might not even be able to understand your statement at all (if you look at the per capita income of China half a century ago, you will find that the illiteracy rate in backward countries with the same income is quite high). My father's generation came from the poor countryside, caught up with the reform and opening up, and went to the country's key universities. Later, after more than ten years of struggle, I have a relatively affluent life today. Only now do I have the capital to discuss these "democracy and freedom" with you face to face. And I, would like to attribute part of the reason for my present affluent life (including being able to discuss it with you here) to the country.

"Pick up the bowl to eat, put down the bowl and scold your mother." Sorry, with all due respect, it is difficult for me now.

You can say, yes, this is the result of our efforts, it has nothing to do with the country, and we should not be grateful to the country. So I ask, if the same thing will happen in Hong Kong? Imagine if my father was born in Hong Kong. According to the same positioning, after more than ten years, what will happen? In most cases, our family may still live in a tube building, in a "cage" bed (I don't know if you call it that way), there may be no girls who are willing to fall in love with me, and I run to deliver food every day, with meager money earning barely enough to make ends meet. Not to mention the opportunity to study at a world-class institution for six or seven years. Of course, you can refute me with the example of Li Ka-shing’s minority, but I want to tell you that it is really only a minority. Many students around me have similar family experiences to mine. Objectively speaking, whether you want to admit it or not, compared with a few decades ago, Hong Kong's economic development is really too little.

So, tell me, what is the meaning of freedom and democracy? You let me choose again, I may still choose my life now.

I used to hate China when I was young, especially before going abroad. I think that China's system is so bad that it hits the street (is that how it is used? ..), people can't speak freely, they are oppressed, political officials protect each other, and corruption is rampant. We all know it, and our mainland students actually understand it. At that time, many people admired foreign countries very much. The students and boys in the mainland were learning Japanese animation moves, and the girls yearned for the handsome foreign vampires in European and American dramas, including Hong Kong movies that many mainland people like (of course, Hong Kong movies are now popular in Hong Kong). The movies are not bad, but I personally think that the ones made more than ten years ago are more classics). But on the contrary, after going abroad, when I came into contact with the real western world, I realized that it was not as good as I imagined. A few weeks in line, and my illness would have been cured by then. There are not many such examples, and there are not a few mainland students who have the same idea as me after going abroad.

There are many people who seem to understand the situation in China very well, and point out various shortcomings in China's politics. I will not deny these, and if you are willing, I can even add a few points for you. But will your so-called "backward system" really lead to "decline" and "misfortune"? You must know that these disadvantages in China are not unique to today, but have existed for a long time. In the past few decades, there are really many people who say bad things about China. I believe that you have been listening to it since you knew the world. Watching all kinds of negative news about the mainland in the Hong Kong media. It stands to reason that China should have collapsed long ago, but in reality?

let's wrap it up

The world was in chaos, and the people starved to death. The emperor said: "Why don't you eat minced meat?"

This is exactly what I want to tell you. When he is really starving to death, it is meaningless and ridiculous to talk about freedom and ideals. At this time, nothing is as important as giving him a meal of rice.

I admit, we come from the abyss. But precisely because we come from the abyss, we understand what is in the abyss better than you. That's why we are so "realistic" and "funny" by you.

Under the abyss, there may be evil dragons, and there may also be treasures. And you who have never experienced the abyss, how will you understand?