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Netizens launched a photography contest yesterday in response for a call to mainlanders to "pee and poop in Hong Kong's streets". Photo: Felix Wong
A group of netizens today launched a photography competition to capture mainlanders excreting in public in Hong Kong as large numbers of visitors are expected at the start of the “golden week” holiday.
Event organiser Leung Kam-shing and about six other netizens announced the launch in Mong Kok pedestrian zone.
“We are doing this in response to mainland netizens’ calling on mainlanders to come and pee and poop in Hong Kong’s streets,” Leung said.
He added that participants should persuade offenders against the unhygienic behavior before taking photos or videos. Over 800 people have already clicked “attend” in the event on Facebook.
During today’s announcement a quarrel broke out between a mainland man and the netizens. They were soon separated by police.
One mainland tourist, a mother, said it is understandable that children needed relief urgently and cannot control themselves.
“I’m sure they must be in very urgent situations when they do that, but they could have found a more discreet place,” said Pan Lingling, 31, from Zhejiang, who is on holiday in Hong Kong with her two-year-old daughter.
A row has grown after a video and images of the toddler urinating on busy Mong Kok street appeared on social media last week. The images have drawn millions of comments and reposts on Weibo alone, while heated debate raging on both Facebook and Twitter.
The images are seen as the latest example of the culture clash between Hong Kong people and the flood of mainland visitors that has triggered anti-mainlander protests.
After the images went viral, an online campaign was launched to urge mainland parents to take their children to Hong Kong and let them urinate in the streets to familiarise the locals with “natural” functions.
A commentary in the overseas edition of People’s Daily questioned whether the bystanders who captured the boy’s act on camera had acted properly, while saying there was a need for “mutual civilisation and understanding” between tourists and Hongkongers.
This week, Commerce Secretary Greg So Kam-leung urged Hongkongers to teach mainlanders manners instead of pointing accusatory fingers at them.
In an article carried by seven Chinese-language newspapers, So clarified remarks he made earlier that urged Hongkongers to “make allowances” for such behaviour.
So said he was not asking residents to do nothing about visitors’ behaviour, but to show respect and help to educate them.“People should be understanding. I certainly don’t agree with urinating in the streets,” So wrote. “It’s not that we should put up with what’s wrong, but that we must deal with it rationally.”
Hong Kong protesters who mocked urinating mainland toddler branded ‘skinheads’ by state media
Global Times editorial slams protesters and urges ‘bravely pay them back’
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 30 April, 2014, 4:12pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 01 May, 2014, 8:59am
About 30 Hongkongers mocked mainland tourists by mimicking their toddlers defecating and placing fake faeces under them in Harbour City. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Hongkongers who protested against a mainland family whose toddler urinated in a Mong Kok street were yesterday compared to "neo-Nazis" and "skinheads" in a scathing editorial carried by China's state-run Global Times.
The article came in response to a protest on Sunday, where some 30 Hongkongers mocked mainlaind tourists by squatting down and mimicking toddlers defecating, using fake faeces, at the Harbour City shopping centre in TST.
The piece is the latest in a spat that has drawn both widespread condemnation and support for the family both in Hong Kong and on the mainland, after pictures taken by passersby went viral of a toddler urinating by a roadside, leading to ugly scenes in the street.
Some netizens in the city believe the boy was actually defecating, claiming photos and videos showing the evidence.
Protesters pose in front of photographers. Photo: Screenshot via Facebook event
"Humiliating mainlanders must be the only aim these protestors were trying to achieve. But it turns out that who they embarrassed and humiliated was nobody but themselves and all of Hong Kong society. Hong Kong's image was badly tarnished by them," read the editorial, posted on the paper's English language website.
"This handful of radicals in Hong Kong remind us of the rampant skinheads and neo-Nazis in Europe. Xenophobia is the cult of these groups. Their opinions have an effect on public opinion, but their actions will usually make trouble for mainstream society."
"These Hong Kong 'skinheads' shamed Hong Kong civilization, which has to take a much longer time and more efforts to eliminate the ill effects."
The article called on mainlanders to be open-minded and distinguish between Hong Kong mainstream society from "those contemptible wretches" who protested at Harbour City.
"All of Hong Kong shouldn't be blamed for these incidents, but they can serve as a gate for mainlanders to have a better understanding of Hong Kong society."
Originating in working class London in the 1960s, skinheads are known for their close-cropped or shaved heads and violence against ethnic minorities. The movement spread across the world.
The article said that while protesters had wanted to humiliate mainlanders, they had ended up humiliating themselves and Hong Kong society instead, letting people see “a low-quality, dirty and messy tip” of society.
Such “rogue and anti-civilisation behaviour” would affect mainlanders’ interest in visiting Hong Kong, the Global Times continued.
A policeman holds a placard that warns the meeting is in breach of the law. Photo: Screenshot via Facebook event
The article described Hong Kong as "still a young member in this big Chinese family" and said it was "unavoidable that some troublemakers will keep posing challenges to society".
"Patriotism demands this massive country should have a certain tolerance for frictions within different groups," it read.
"We need to fight back and overwhelm any forces that try to harm the integrity of the nation."
