Gweilo
Hong Kong and racism , sounds like something that happens only through the expats coming to Hong Kong. At least that’s what most people will probably assume, because the only people who can be racist are “white” people. Sorry to burst your bubble but Asia as a whole is extremely racist, towards other countries, be they white people, other Chinese people or other Asians, and they blatantly show their favouritism in their laws and in public. In Hong Kong for instance there are several names that get used by Hong Kongers to describe those around them who aren’t Hong Kong Chinese, such as gweilo meaning to describe a white person. The funny thing about that is the fact that that word has now been adopted by those who it used to describe and make feel bad about themselves. I personally say to my friends when I’m at home that I am a gweilo and it has become part of a joke, “who is that gweilo I see?”, “oh it’s Milena”, I own the word, but the word does not own me. There is nothing more inf