ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the experiences of European British and Hong Kong Chinese adolescents, in which their senses of cultural belonging are put into cross-cultural perspective. It highlights the questions about the meaning of being ‘British’ and ‘HongKongese’, and the issue of Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997 based on interview data obtained from 160 young people. Language was a factor which was often identified as salient, and there were as well some passing references to the royal family and an imperial past. Respondents in all three groups, British-Chinese, European British and Hong Kong Chinese were asked to complete a cultural identity scale which formed part of their questionnaire. All groups spend a lot of their free time talking to each other, looking round shops, engaged in sports and going to the cinema, visiting the homes of friends and playing games there.
