I don't understand why there are so many patriotic songs in former colonial Hong Kong.
You are more patriotic because you can't go back to your own country. You've never seen a Korean migrant worker chasing a car of the China Embassy flying the national flag. Only those who have suffered from foreigners know that the motherland is good. Now Hong Kong people don't know what Britain was like. Just refer to the movies of Jackie Chan and others. The British police put down their batons and asked why.