Governments must strive to help integrate immigrants with locals

According to the residents, the nearly 40,000 people that troop in day in and day out are creating a boisterous din and the smog from the eateries is turning them into “smoke cured meats.”

Around the same time, some 700 miles to the southwest, the local residents of Hong Kong, formerly a British colony but now a People's Republic of China's “highly autonomous” special administrative region, also complained that their mainland compatriots, allowed in liberally since 1997, are turning the “Pearl of the Orient” into a mess, if not a joke, after what they consider to be a flurry of unseemly behavior on the part of the mainlander-turned-Hong Kongers and day trippers from across the border. The latest offense, as reported in the news, was that one such person ate his/her bowl of instant noodles on a crowded Mass Transit Railway (MTR) train in utter disregard of other passengers' safety and comfort.

Other offenses, to name a few, include the so-called “unlimited infiltration of mainland Chinese couples into Hong Kong,” which means the thousands of mainland women who come to Hong Kong to give birth every year.

After the latest incident, tempers flared and a name-calling shouting match began across the border, with a Beijing University scholar calling the unsympathetic Hong Kong locals “dogs,” while the long-time Hong Kong settlers countered by calling their mainland compatriots “locusts.”

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