since its return to China is to leave alone its colonial educational system intact. HK youth today feel that they have nothing to do with China in spite of the fact that their very livelihood depneds on the good will of Mainland China. People are in general knowing very little and even less knowing how to calculate their best interest, which by the way somewhat casts in doubt one of fundamental assumptions of democracy and classical capitalism. The sociopolitical conditions of today's HK and Taiwan are not unlike that of Germany in the 1930s. Economic stagnation breeds social discontent. Unfortunately for our human, one of our outstanding foibles is the inveterate habit to look outward in external reason rather than inward and internal reason for causes of intractable problem social, economic or otherwise. To find outlets to vent this popular disgruntlement, some demagogues will come out to direct the pent up angry toward some easy scapegoats as the primary reason for their misfortune such as Mainland China in case of HK and Taiwan and the Jew in case of Germany.  If not properly contained, it usually leads to mob rule and violent social convolutions. Consequently, there will be the breakdown of law and order and the rise of popular sense of perverted social justice.