There's no denying China has many shortcomings and faces many challenges, but there's also no denying many progress China has made in the past four decades. Yet many Hongkongers have to find faults in everything Chinese. Beneath all the rhetoric about democracy or the lack thereof in mainland China, many Hongkonger dislike mainlanders for no reason other than that their neighbors across Luohu Bridge isn't poor anymore. A rich person won't be threatened by his poor relative but once his poor relative gets rich instantly he hates him.
Human need pride, they need to believe they're better than their peers in some way. So once the economic advantage dissipates, some Hongkongers have to find psychological advantage some other ways, and finding all sorts of real or imaginary problems about mainland China have become a convenient way to ensure their superiority complex won't be challenged. Pathetic.
