Why was Hong Kong the most successful colony of the British Empire?

Why was Hong Kong the most successful colony of the British Empire? Could Britain have done the same to a small Indian fishing village? If so, why did it not happen?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hong Kong is so disgusting and dirty

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >4th in the world for HDI
      how? i'd understand if this was the 1970s and HK was full of Maoist car bomb attacks and Triad gang wars in shithole high-rise fevelas in the Kowloon Walled City but nowadays it's one of the richest places on earth

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Cantonese are israelites of China

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Cantonese
      >not Hakka
      >not Hoklo
      >not Shanghainese
      They're ALL greedy pernicious merchants

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Could Britain have done the same to a small Indian fishing village? If
    That's what Mumbai is. The Portuguese gave a shitty fishing village to Charles II as a wedding dowry, and now it's a megapolis and one of India's most important cities
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornby_Vellard

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Southern Chinese are an extremely mercantile culture. Singapore and the Chinese southeast Asia diaspora being about 1-5% of the Filipino or Indonesian population yet controlling literally 80% of those countries' economies is more evidence. Give South Chinese a relatively free market and they'll out-earn practically everybody.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >TFW met a guy in school whose mother is Cantonese, father is Scottish, and his girlfriend is israeli from New York
      That guy's children are going to be Übermensch in capitalist society

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >southern chinese are an extremely mercantile culture
      remember reading about that the chinese labor law was drafted in the 90s which limited to 8hr workdays and 40 hr workweeks, the southern provinces vehemently opposed it. makes sense now.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        But shouldn't workers have a life outside work? Sort of enables them time to actually spend the money they earned and buy more shit. Seems counter intuitive but workers need time to spend it on goods.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          literally all of china's factories are located in guangdong, the workers basically live and eat on campus.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          East Asian countries in general consist of millions upon millions of people crammed into tiny shoebox apartment buildings because rice farming civilizations expand populations in small areas like nobody else. When this fierce Confucian education and workplace competition is forced upon a population because everybody else is also working so damn hard to make it to the top of a massive dense population, you're either forced to work even harder to outstrip them or become a total fricking loser.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Why do you think China has an export economy? Their society is pretty much a modern form of Industrial Revolution England in terms of wealth/class divide. While their domestic market is huge it's not where their companies focus or make most of their money.

  5. 2 years ago
    Dirk

    Wouldn't Virginia be a more successful colony in retrospect

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Isn't it full of Black folk?

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why was Hong Kong the most successful colony of the British Empire?
    Race and IQ.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If it was it would still maintain its lead regionally. Now it's just a generic Chinese coastal city more or less but much more crowded

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hong Kong was sort of a shit hole for most of its history. It's economic boom occurred after WW2.
    >Pre-WW2, it was just a stop for exports from China.
    >Chinese civil war meant huge capital flight from the mainland, KMT. Fun fact: Ip Man, the guy in the movies, fled to HK because he was a KMT officer.
    >Red China embargos HK until the 1970s. HK has to turn to industrialization, textiles, manufacturing. This is when you think of when you think of HK's huge economic boom
    >Cultural exports like martial arts films were first Cantonese stuff, Bruce Lee. HK starts developing soft power. More investments, more tourism, etc...
    >Government business policy of what some call "laissez-faire" although it's better described as corporatocracy. HK has several oligopolies/monopolies that dominate certain sectors. Not unlike Korean chaebols.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Wouldn't america or Canada or Australia count as the most successful colonies of England?

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Test

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why was Hong Kong the most successful colony of the British Empire?
    It really wasn't, it was a dirty Chinese city for much of British Rule.

    It only became rich after the Chinese Civil War when all the Chinese Capitalists fled form the Mainland (especially the Shanghai bunch) to Hong Kong. It became even richer when China loosened up to the west during the Sino-Soviet Split and Hong Kong became an intermediary between China and the West in the 1980s-90s;

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hong Kong benefited from being one of only two places in China insulated from war and Maoist bullshit. That meant that wealth became super-concentrated in Hong Kong (and to a lesser extent, Macau too) as capital and skills fled the rest of the country.

    (>Historically speaking, Shanghai International Settlement had been the centre of Chinese business and industry, for similar reasons.)

    The same phenomenon couldn't happen in British India, because British authority expanded across the whole subcontinent, meaning that no individual city or region had any particular advantage over another by virtue of its jurisdiction.

    In an alternative universe, it would be interesting to see how Goa and Pondicherry would have fared if they had retained their colonial status indefinitely after Indian independence.

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