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I am a Pakistani guy born in Hong Kong and educated in Britain. When I graduated from University in London last year it took me 3 months to find a job. People were telling me that the reason you are not being called for an interview is because of who YOU are. But finally when I found a job that I was qualified for my employer turned round and told me the following, which shocked me. She said that she was not keen in hiring Chinese people because of their lazy attitude and low mentality and she would rather hire non-chinese people. Currently I am the only non-chinese out of 4 employees working here. So sometimes it could be an exceptional case whereby some Chinese employers discriminate against their own race but this is probably only in a minority. No one can hide from discrimination but some how I feel in UK, discrimination is more visible than in HKG.
But I think if Hong Kong is to advance, it has to accept a cosmopolitan society or else it will never stand a single chance of being a world class city.
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