>>3442424Basically true, but they're still apart of China. Some Puerto Ricans claim to feel the same way about us (although unlike the people of Hong Kong, Puerto Ricans tend to migrate in droves to the mainland territory of their oppressor whenever they can despite clamoring for liberation).
Hell, there are days I'm not terribly pleased about being American myself, as I live in a region with a fair amount of natural resources which could conceivably do quite well for itself as an independent state, most of our federal tax dollars go to propping up shittier areas, and I have the embarrassment of association with the foreign policy blunders that get us hated internationally, despite the fact that all of that stuff is masterminded by people back east and has very little to do with us up here. Even so, I don't get to be considered non-American just because I acknowledge I may be a bit better off if that was the case.
Although I can understand the indignation in Hong Kong too, of course, especially because there are so many people for whom the "colonial" period remains in living memory. But things are as they are, they've got about as much of a chance of actually separating as Tibet or Xinjiang at this point.
