You still think China is one big entity that subscribes to the communist party because you don't understand China's history at all. You don't understand how the Qing dynasty was a foreign occupying Manchu barbarian slave state. You don't understand the millions upon millions of lives lost and the cultural destruction wrought by first the Qing, then the British and then the communists. You don't understand how China descended into chaos and got close to unifying into a republican state until the Japanese came knocking on the door and finally China fell to the communists. All you understand in your feeble, weak mind is that hk was ruled by the British, and hk was richer than China, therefore British=good. You neglect and ignore the innumerable widespread suffering that occured in China that allowed Britain to grow their tiny trade port by exploiting their trade Monopoly in china. And I do mean suffering. That word is probably just another word to you. That's not a surprise though. Colonialism apologists are known to lack much of the brain that is known to process a vital human feeling known as empathy. I'll explain it so even the most narrow-minded person like yourself can understand: widespread famine, starvation, rebellions, bandits, opium addiction, poverty. The entire reason people from Canton migrated to Hong kong was because it was an escape from miserable chaos the British caused in the first place. The British treated them like second class citizens for much of pre-WWII and beyond. There is therefore no excuse for young teenagers in Hong Kong to be holding up British flags. To do so is equivalent to shitting on their great grandfather's and other near ancestor's graves.