What is a person's birth country if one is born in Hong Kong before 1997?

hong kong but place of birth does not equal ethnically i know a few hong kong born people who are white but it doesn't make them chinese lol maybe it does china followed westerners lead became even bigger drug dealer than european powers

I was born in Hong Kong before 1997 and now live in the US. When I have to fill in any official forms, the place of birth is China, because Hong Kong is now part of China. When I was asked where I'm from, it would depend. I can tell some people don't quite understand the difference between Hong Kong and China, or all they want to know is if I'm Chinese, Korean, Japanese etc. I'd simply say I'm Chinese. In other circumstances I'd say I'm from Hong Kong, especially among Chinese people, we Chinese people all distinguish ourselves where we're from.

I'm a Hongkonger and I was born in HK before 1997. Before the handover, HK-ers used the passport called "British Dependent Territories (BDT) -- Hong Kong passport". It was only issued to HK permanent residents and ceased to effect from the day after HK's handover (1st July) in 1997. And in order to retain "a certain relationship" between these HK residents and the UK, the British Government created a special category of nationality -- "British National (Overseas) (or BN(O) in short) and, through advertisements, reminded these residents to change their BDT (HK) passports to BN(O) passports, which cannot be newly registered for after the handover but can be renewed for life. Despite the fact that BN(O) passport holders are in fact British nationals (according to the 6 categories of British nationalities), they do not need a travel visa but are under immigration control when entering the UK and do not automatically have right of abode in the UK, except those senior civil servants and professionals (about 50,000 families) who acquired British Citizenship through a nationality selection scheme set by the UK. The British Government intentionally denied these 3 million BN(O) passport holders the access to British Citizenship when they reviewed the immigration law in the 1980s, but then they gave residents of all other British Dependent Territories (Now "British Overseas Territories") the access to British Citizenship in 2002. (And in fact many HK people blamed the UK for its "segragative policy" imposed on BN(O) passport holders.) However, the British Government provides consular assistance to these BN(O) passport holders when they have troubles abroad, but it cannot provide assistance when they are in HK or China since the Chinese government does not recognise the British nationality of these holders. And after the handover, due to the "1 country, 2 systems" policy, the immigration department of HKSAR Gov. issues HKSAR passports on behalf of China to permanent residents in HK. And since these residents all still under immigration control when entering mainland China, they have to go to the officially authorised China Travel Agency to apply for an Entry Permit before leaving for China from HK. The HKSAR passport differs from the one used by the mainlanders in the way that it allows the holders to travel to over 150 countries without a visa (while the "Real" Chinese passport: about 50 countries only). For BN(O) passports, about 170 countries, but the British Government does not offer accurate and updated information on that. As a HK permanent resident, now I hold two passports -- British National (Overseas) passport (Nationality: British National (Overseas), or BN(O)) and HKSAR passport (Nationality: China (HK)). When I travel abroad and when I am asked to fill in an immigration form, I just write whatever printed in my passports (British National (Overseas) or HKSAR (China)). And when my foreign friends ask me which country I am from, I simply answer Hong Kong (and then explain HK's history to them, if they're interested). Besides, if I want to go to countries like Russia, I use HKSAR passport as I do not need a visa to go to Russia if I use the "China-like" passport, while for other countries, I prefer using BN(O) passport since the word "China" printed on my HKSAR passport may confuse the immigration officer and get me into trouble. Though many HK residents switch to HKSAR passports these days since the fee of renewal is much lower. Reference: British National (Overseas) passport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_(Overseas)_passport HKSAR passport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Special_Administrative_Region_passport

This is not a trick answer - Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR), but it's still a apart of People's Republic of China (PRC) - Under the privileges offered as a SAR, Hong Kong retains its own monetary, judicial and political systems, only military defence and foreign diplomacy are handled via Beijing, nevertheless, it's still a part of China, an autonomous city within China. - As judicial systems are different (a.k.a. laws), the Consulate manages problems that may arise regarding mainland citizens in Hong Kong or vice versa. ---------------------------------------... Put it this way - when Scotland joined in the Acts of Union to create the United Kingdoms, Scottish people born before the union were automatically regarded as British citizens. When the United States annexed the state of Texas from Mexico those born before the war were automatically regarded as Americans. Does that make sense? You might ask what if some people didn't want to become "Chinese"? When Hong Kong's jurisdiction was returned to China, citizens in Hong Kong could change their citizenship by applying for British citizenship, they still can, of course acceptance is at the discretion of the Home Office in the UK. Subjectively you can say you belong to wherever you like - it's your choice. In terms of national sovereignty, Hong Kong is a part of China, other than that, people holding Hong Kong passports are treated differently from people holding mainland China passports, and most often, people in Hong Kong enjoy more benefits such as easier application of visas and immigration.

I usually say that I was born in Hong Kong, but when people don't know where Hong Kong is, I usually say that it is in the southern tip of China. In hearing "CHINA", people are able to immediately figure out where Hong Kong is. I would say, Hong Kong is known because of China. Furthermore, the reason why there is some confusion regarding to this aspect is because of history. China was militarily weak and thus suffered from foreign bully. It was like a drug dealer trying to force your family to take their drug but was refused. The drug dealer became furious and started beating you up and occupying your backyard. That is why the modern China needs to greatly empower her military capability. Only that can China stop the greedy foreign empires from bullying China again. What I meant "China was weak" was the Qing Dynasty. .

Your "birth country" would be Colonial British Empire, unless you have applied for PRC citizenship. I think it to be quite contradictory that our resident Dog Sh|t would say "China was weak during Qing Dynasty" and yet she and her CCP are now trying to claim that anything and everything that the Manchus once claimed to be "part of China" has "always been a part of China". It's not too difficult to see right through that farce. Frankly, I'm getting a little tired of listening to her perpetual lying...