Hong Kong always be presented as Asia's international city and has been a Free port for century. Thus the situation is different to countries from CHINA to Western. We have people from different places, i.e. resident from Japanese, south Asia and western countries. That's why we're called as citizen (市民) instead of national.
Our education should be more diversified that includes Chinese history, HK development history, world history and civil education. I don't know if the content will be too much to a primary student but it is undoubtedly balanced and match to our situation.
Hi, anyone went to CGC office these days?
What worries me is that many locals I work with are apathetic, or show no interest in this subject because they don't see it as something that directly affects them(?!!) Either that or they are too scared to say what they really think.
It's not. The history of Australia is much more balanced now.
I went to school in the UK and there was certainly no "love the country" rhetoric. It was a LONG time ago and I dropped it at 14 but my vague recollection is that it was a list of all the kings and queens and what they did plus a few bits about what life was like in England in various periods. I recall almost nothing being taught about recent history (the world wars etc) - it was all pre-Victorian era and all "national" not international. In other words, fairly useless but vaguely entertaining!