Ich Bin Ein Hongkonger
After years of struggling with my identity, I ended up defining myself as Hong Kong British, but can an expat kid with a German surname ever really be a Hongkonger?
Growing up as a white expat kid in Hong Kong, I was extremely privileged. Of course, I didn’t know it at the time - a life of sports club memberships, two cars, and a 2,287 square foot apartment seemed perfectly normal to me. My family had arrived in the British territory in early 1980, my father taking a job with the Hong Kong government as a land surv…
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