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xuankun131 karma

I can answer this one.

Chinese news in the mainland is heavily biased to show only the violent portions of the protests and have stirred a lot of anger in the mainland against Hong Kong. If you ask the average mainlander they want the CCP to send in the PAP and crush the protests once and for all. For reasons I’m not going to get into, that’s most likely not going to happen. However even Mainlanders abroad, with access to non-Chinese news about the protests still don’t support them. In their view HKers are a bunch of spoiled brats who just want to trash shit for fun.

There is also a lot of bad blood between mainlanders and Hong Kongers. Hong Kongers used to look down on the mainland as a bunch of “country hicks” because they were poor. Now the situation is reversed and a bunch of rich mainlanders go to HK every year to buy luxury goods, safe baby formula, tour around, etc. in response to the influx a lot of HKers have taken to calling mainlanders “locusts” and accuse them of “invading Hong Kong”. This isn’t helped by a lot of the nouveau riches mainlanders not having the western style manners and upbringing to go along with their stacks of cash.

The discrimination against mainlanders is bad enough that when I visited relatives in Zhuhai, across the bay from Hong Kong, my parents warned me to speak English to each other in HK instead of mandarin so we don’t get profiled.

xuankun100 karma

I think OP is looking for a more straightforward answer to he question of: if all goes well for you and your product, do you envision a decrease in the number of receptionists your clients employ or no change?

xuankun9 karma

The allergic response is mediated through IgE, which is a special subclass of antibody. AFAIK, tolerance therapy aims to get the body to switch the response to IgG which doesn’t trigger anaphylaxis.