The different cultures between Hong Kong and Mainland China
Hong Kong:
Hong Kong was a part of China thousands years ago, so that Hong Kong has a deep foundation of traditional Chinese culture, like food habit, traditional festival, and so on. Also, Hong Kong was influenced deeply by the western culture, because after 1840, Hong Kong was under the British rules, it was kind of like England, like students in school, from primary school to university use English very often, even as often as their first language, Cantonese. And many kinds of Western food came in Hong Kong; some important traditional Western festival became people’s important festival too, like Christmas, Thanksgiving Day, Halloween, and so on. All of above, the modern Hong Kong is the result of the combination of Eastern and Western cultures.
The next part, I want to talk about the business culture in Hong Kong. Business is the most important part of Hong Kong, because Hong Kong is one of the centers of world business, world economic and world finance. But why Hong Kong could become some successful in business, which because its good business culture: Compliance with covenants, compliance with rules. Business people respect the spirit of the law; comply with legal requirements.
Mainland China:
Traditional Chinese culture has controlled the country for thousands years, people have a very strong cultural background, that means Chinese people do not accept the foreign culture easily. Confucianism influences traditional Chinese culture deeply, the thousands years long feudal system society fosters the Confucianism, because the Confucianism is good for the rule of the feudal rulers. This ideology told common people they should obey their emperor, and the law was not the most important part to restrict people’s action, but the self-discipline is. And after the culture revolution between 1960s and 1970s,