The active and hard-working people of Hong Kong have made this country one of the biggest centers of commerce in the world . The thought of confucius about the ideals of social and familiar connection are fundamental pillars of the foundation of the Chinese society with values like modesty and patience before an aggressive reaction. The Chinese families are joined together with strong traditions allegiance, obedience and respect. It is not unusual that both parents work. The parents tend to be protectors and prefer that the students be at home as much as possible, and hope to know when and to where their children are when they go out. The families realize social activities especially every Sunday. The majority of the families live in small apartments in urban areas where the personal space is limited because cleanliness is very important. The majority of the families in Hong Kong are strongly opposed to students smoking.
Rice accompanies all the meals and some plates are prepared with chicken, pork, fish and vegetables. The fruits are common desserts. Daily products like milk and cheese are very expensive and are not regularly apart of the daily diet. The age to drink alcohol is 18 years of age.
There many varieties of garmentin Hong Kong, from traditional to modern . It is necessary to have light clothing in the summer. A sweater and warm clothing must be foreseen for the winter season. It is necessary to take in account that neither air conditioning nor heating are used normally. It is necessary to take leather black shoes (neither boots nor high tops are accepted in the schools). It is expected that the participants have short, clean hair, without visibles piercings and the girls cannot use makeup nor painted fingernails in the school.
The movies and television are the most popular forms of entertainment. You can visit the beach and excursions are usually common. Favorite sports include table tennis, soccer, skating, squash, badminton, tennis, swimming and basketball. The young people normally go out in groups to enjoy their activities. They like going shopping, visiting karaokes or enjoying a good conversation with a cup of coffee. The facility of transportation allows easy mobilization to go around Hong Kong.
* Hong Kong is one of two " administrative special regions " of China. The other one is the ancient Portuguese colony of Macao. In these two special administrative regions applies the administrative model known as a country with two systems.
* The British presence in Hong Kong has marked the local culture, which although fundamentally China has been submitted to a western influence much more than the rest of the country. Paradoxically, in parallel to this western influence, Hong Kong has mantained many customs and cultural Chinese traditions that the rest of the continent suffered under harassment by political revolutionists of the Mao Zedong dinasty.
* Honk Kong has the biggest Buddha statue in the world. Its size is two times the size of the Statue of Liberty.
* Hong Kong has big influence in the movie industry. Two of its most familiar actors are legendary Bruce Lee and modern Jackie Chan.
* In the music industry , Hong Kong is the principal center of production of the so-called cantopop, pop music in cantons and, alongside Taiwan, also the mandopop, pop music in mandarin .. * In literature, Hong Kong has lodged several authors of the wushu gender of martial arts. The most important representative of this gender is, undoubtedly, Louis Cha (known in China as Jin Yong), an author of big reputation in Oriental Asia.
* Hong Kong is considered to be one of the places with the most economic freedom in the world. This means that it has alot facility to establish companies in the territory and to move money from Hong Kong to the outside.
* Hong Kong is considered to be one of 5 safest places in the ground.
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