Have you ever experienced the warmth and humour when "they" realise you can speak Cantonese? Try it some day. I'll wager that apart from (poorly enunciated) directions home, 90% of our foreign crew can't string a sentence together.
Yet you are still not allowed to become a full HKG citizen, that is the point I was making. I'm sure they love it that you speak Cantonese, but that is besides the point.
At the end of the day, a line is drawn and you will always be an outsider.
This has racist undertones that are totally inappropriate.
Sorry, but it is simply the truth. I agree, discriminating against others is wrong, but that is the way the law works in this part of the world. Asia has a very long way to go in these regards, it is not only the Chinese.
The Japanese are even worse when it comes to xenophobia and racism. There are second and third generation Japanese citizens that are shunned from their communities and whose children are not even allowed to go to school because they are not true Japanese.