Hong Kong's Views of Mainland China

Hong Kong appears to take pride at being a "green city".  This LA Times article highlights a little bit of class warfare taking place with visitors from mainland China.  Here are a couple of quotes;

"Last year, an Internet music video called "Locust World" enumerated Hong Kong natives' complaints in the form of a saccharine Cantonese pop song. Against a black-and-white video of swarms of locusts devouring a field, the singer painted a portrait of mainland tourists spitting in public, yelling into cellphones and allowing their children to defecate on the streets. "The locusts will stop at nothing," he croons. "Inch by inch, Hong Kong is being taken over by these pests."


As urban China grows richer, I predict that "low class" behavior will decline.  Smoking rates will fall. Public spitting and public pooping will decline.  This is the "small ball" of how a green city forms.


It appears that Hong Kong is out in front within China's system of cities but perhaps the experience of visiting Hong Kong will offer the mainlanders some experience with the possibility of living in a green city.