Today's topic was all about tension. The thing that comes to my mind first :
Weight? Force? Pressure? Its like the saying, "when tension builds up".
It can interpreted in different ways, be it physically or emotionally.
Practically speaking, when we say tension, we normally refer it between two parties.
Are we creating it? Or is it that people are creating for us?
Are we creating it? Or is it that people are creating for us?
(Unless you're consistently thinking like Einstein then yeah, it's literal. Haha!)
So as a class/group activity, we were to discuss on this particular article about an anonymous Hong Kong designers' illustration that brutally portrayed how Hong Kong is nothing like China.
"How Hong Kong is nothing like China"
In total there are about 22 illustrations, this is just part of the total,
not the whole thing just yet.
But honestly though, to me, it just screams BIASNESS!
To what I'm seeing off of it, its his/her preconceived idea against foreigners. Well, in this case, against China. I think it is just too exaggerated. Personally, I have never been to China or Hong Kong so my opinion is considered quite neutral and limited. Although, I do feel that the designers went a tad too insensitive which made it seemed as though his intentions were actually made to sound offensive as it should've. But then again, how could I be so sure about it? For example, he made a contrast on their hygiene as a contributing factor to his defence. Honestly, I find it rather irrelevant. To what extent does this prove how the Chinese carry themselves as a whole? What about personal hygiene?
Is this just based on his/her own perspective and not majority?
Is there not other HongKongers that does the same?
I could be right. I could be wrong.
Another example would be their use of social media. My friend, Adilah did brought up an interesting point, saying that here.. the Chinese are contradicting. Hm, say whaaat??
It seemed like the Chinese insistently chose to be so non-exposed to the outside world whereby they restrict all communications via various apps (WeChat) as compared to the HongKongers who are likely to be more interactive (Facebook & Twitter etc). And so when we discussing, Mr Ezzam questioned us back instead saying, how is it not us who just take that initiative and try to learn and understand them. Why not we learn Chinese instead? Me and Adilah got quite angry with that, because to us, it's not that we are discriminating language or any sort. However, to us, English is a universal language. That's just how the world works. To us, it's just selfish. Is it not that there are other countries as well that revolve around this?
It's a matter of compromise and practicality.
However, I could be saying so much with little knowledge but be wrong about this, or even right. Who knows.. What I'm trying to say is that, sometimes things don't make sense the way you ought to. It's like a rumour. Rumours are made up because at some point, it did start somewhere. Like in every lie, there is a truth right? Maybe that's how tension builds up.
Misconception, misunderstanding.
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