Hongkong perspective on mainland China, mainland China perspective on Hong Kong. How to talk to my mainland Chinese girlfriend?

Your Girlfriend seems very identified with being "Chinese". Managing to help her put this identification aside before going into a debate with her would be a good place to start, but is also one of the most difficult things. This is because to have a level headed and enjoyable debate with someone, that can actually go somewhere, there needs to be some leeway of accepting you are totally wrong. I don't see that happening if you can't put your identification aside for a few moments (maybe there is hope, but only you can answer that..).

This is also one of the main reasonst HK has garnered a lot of sympathy from almost every country under the globe, because any clear-headed individual can see how totally unfair the situation is.

Basically, you trying to reason with her would be like banging your head against a brick wall. In my experience, even if you bring out clear-cut, fully reasoned and logical arguments she will pull out every fallacy from under the book before the inevitable of never admitting you're right.

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