>>7641291Because Hong Kong was a British colony, which allowed for cultural admixture.
Because Taiwan was where the capitalist Republic of China government fled to in order to escape the communist People's Republic of China, who under Mao Zedong took the entire mainland and initiated his cultural revolution, stamping out all sense of autonomy and causing all mainland Chinese to meld into the hive mind.
One embraced industrialisation, innovation, and an open lived experience on the world stage, whilst the other cocooned its people from the world and wiped out sparrows only to have all of their crops eaten by insects, and then there was something about sticking pins in the skulls of baby girls.
Can you guess which is which?
