It s not clear what will happen after those 50 years, but for sure this brings great distress to HKers who already see their country taken into Mainland style abyss way before the 50 y deadline.
Funny to watch interviews of mainlanders asked in Chinese streets what they thing of this or that rather negative view westerners have of some particular trait attributed to mainland Chinese. A standard reply is "They should visit China and see how it is here, they would get a better opinion
Well ime spending time in China will make those impressions just way worse, mainlanders have little clue of how their culture, government and quality of life is disastrous by western standards. Few westerners who have worked on China bring back memories good enough that they are aching for vacations in that wonderful country (Shanghai seems to fare quite a bit better than other chinese cities when it comes to westerners´taste btw)
HKers have plenty access to foreign media and have often lived under british rules so they have a much wider horizon in the way they see the world. Besides ethnic reasons, the huge amount of money coming through HK relationship with China helps many swallow the pill but for the apparently many who struggle financially in HK it doesn´t help much, plus again ime, in a place like China, money is very far from enough to compensate for the local shortcomings .
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