What about stereotypes?

    As we already know, Hong Kong is a city that belongs to the great empire of China, famous for its culture and ancestral knowledge. What is the thing that we know that every Chinese can do? take a minute and think about it, do you have it? Yes, it's just what you are thinking, Kun Fu, every Chinese knows Kun fu. When we think of famous Chinese characters, names like Jacky Chan, Mulán or Bruce Lee come to mind, all famous for their noisy fighting and martial arts mix that we don't even know the name of, but one thing we are sure of is that they know how to fight, and if they tell us "it's Kun Fu", that sounds Chinese, it must be Kun Fu.

 

    Well let me tell you, my reader friend, not all Chinese know Kun fu, and being born in Hong Kong doesn't make you a fighter like Bruce Lee, in fact, Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, actually, he is not Chinese. That is a stereotype, a generalized and poorly founded idea regarding a general population. In this case, the idea that Hong Kong people know Kun Fu comes from the cinema, in the 1950s martial arts cinema became very popular in the city, which is one of the largest film producers in the country. Between 1950 and 1970, more than 100 low-budget Kun fu films were made, they became so popular that the theme reached Holliwood, and from there it spread to the rest of the world. Even today the influence of this type of production can be seen in films such as John Wick or series such as Cobra Kai, a tribute to the very famous Karate Kit. 

    Thus, there are many stereotypes that have been spread with the media, another very famous one is that Hong Kong people eat many strange things. The truth is that Hong Kong, being a port city, focuses on seafood and fish, along with traditional Chinese foods based on cereals.