The children of middle-class migrants

The children of middle-class migrants

I had never been a patriot. But standing in a Shatin shopping mall with thousands of other Hongkongers, trying to sing our new anthem while choked up with tears, there was no other word to describe the experience. We were bound together by our shared experiences during the first phase of the Hong Kong protests in 2019. We saw ourselves rise up in defiance and march week after week with millions of fellow protesters. We felt the government’s tear…