Abstract
Among of all the discussions of identity, youth identity can be regarded as one of the most controversial topics. When we take a look to a master piece “Identity: Youth and crisis” by Erikson (1994) has been citied about 30000 in the past 25 years, we know that the notion of youth identity is really a big topic richly deserve further analysis. Very often, we do not claim that youth is a singular identity. More often, we understand that youth is a complicated status and there is a commonly belief that an important process for an individual to embrace a mature participation in the civic life. For the young people in Hong Kong, the notion of identity is much more complicated as they are now living in the One Country, Two Systems framework. Compare with their parents, the wider contexts in the current a post-colonial Special Administrative Region are completely different with before. These days, the emergence of social movement has further worsened the citizenship identity of the young people in Hong Kong. The resistance of Chinese Identity can be regarded as a key catalyst to make the relationship between Hong Kong citizenship and the central government of the mainland China go from bad from worse. This paper will use Risk Society Theory as a key framework to briefly review regarding the development of such a situation and attempt to explore a possible way-out for the current predicament.
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D.W.L. HoLecturer, Faculty of Management, Hospitality and General Education, School of General Education and Languages, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Citizenship Hong Kong Identity Risky Society Youth One Country Two
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