Flap 5 wrote:
"If you want a Hong Kong permanent I.D. card you must be of chinese race"
That's rubbish. Anyone who lives legally in HK for 7 years (except on a Domestic Helper visa) can apply (and nearly always get) a Permanent ID card.
To get a HK Passport you need to take Chinese citizenship. There used to be a racial criterion for this, but this has been relaxed over the last few years. There are now quite a few HK citizens who are not ethnically Chinese - most are ethnically Indian, but there are a few ethic Europeans, including Mike Rowse, head of InvestHK.