Reflection on "Artist's Brutal Illustrations Show How Hong Kong is Nothing Like China"

So in class we had to open a very controversial article of a citizen residing in HongKong addressing about how "uncouth" the people from Mainland China are different from them. This anonymous graphic designers compared his own Hong-Konger against the people from China with some illustrations that addressed different topics like sanitary habits, government and social media. However, i felt that this designer hid behind the cloak of anonymity and created provocative and offensive. I went back to lesson 2 and read my book. I noted down what Mr Ezzam said " if you want to be SHOCKING go ahead, there are people who would be on your side, but there are people who would also be against you." This is what this designer did. I agree there is a stigma when it comes to China mainlanders and I've encountered some of the stereotypes of these Chinese foreigners.

However, although there were some facts it was too aggressive. He did bring up topics of government, freedom, and social media. I found that it was quite unusual that the government elects its own president, and not have people vote someone to power. I found that the restriction of a global social media platform like Facebook was shocking. I found that they have no freedom of speech that to me is so important as a Creative.
Freedom, or the lack thereof

So after i poured out my opinions on the group we started to talk more and more about this topic. We realised that this is SO one sided. It's only this one view. The designer generalised and stereotyped the whole population. He slung and hurled accusations like Chinese people are fragile, rude and lack standards. However, although there are some like these. Not all of them are like these. I'm going to be honest, i was actually agreeing with the designs until i heard the perspective of our very own Chinese classmates. My classmates are such nice people who ARE CLEAN who ARE SOCIABLE who ARE POLITE. I realised that just because they are slightly different they are still people who don't deserve these kind of persecution. After that day, i opened my eyes and realised how nonsensical these accusations were and I didnt want to take part of these social bashing.