What an earth does skin color have to do with having an HKID card?
Well quite a good deal when you consider:
- Hong Kong is in Asia
- Hong Kong is part of China
- 95% plus of HK people are of an Asian race
Anglos expats typically go to places like HK to work in Professional jobs for stints typically between 2 to 5 years .
This normally would not be enough for a expat child to gain a HKID card. Year sure there are always exceptions - airline pilots stay longer - we already all know that.
Few Anglo children stay the seven years to gain HKID and very few are born there.
How many Anglo's between ages 19 to 23 would actually hold a HKID card , I would say under 1000 , more likely under 500
Have a look at the Dragonair ab-initio grads - pretty much all Asian background very occasional anglo faces.
The point is that the odds of the 16 of the graduating class or a significant portion of them holding HKID is millions, more likely billions to one.
So clearly they are foreign nationals, and good luck to them everyone earns a place at Cathay.
They question I asked really was quite a simple one. We all know Cathay stated they would be giving preference to HKID , yet we clearly see a course starting April 2012 that is nearly all Anglo - non HKID holders. So when do we see the effects of this new policy