Hong Kong Australians are

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citizens or permanent residents of

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descent. Many Hong Kong Australians hold

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of Australia and

Description

Hong Kong people are generally bilingual or trilingual. Nearly everyone in Hong Kong from the younger generations can speak English. Cantonese is the language of people in Hong Kong. Most of the older generation of Hongkongese cannot speak Mandarin. Since 1997, more young generation in Hong Kong can speak Mandarin, due to efforts by the PRC government to increase the use of Standard Mandarin across China and to reduce the use of other Sinitic languages or dialects. Hong Kong people can come from a variety of ethnicities. The Hong Kong ethnicity is itself very ambiguous and is mixed up with the other ethnicities of China, especially with the people from Guangdong. Hong Kong ethnicity was originally just a subgroup of Guangdong ethnicity, itself a subgroup of Han Chinese ethnicity. Nowadays, the idea of a distinct Hong Kong identity and ethnicity is becoming popular among supporters of Hong Kong Independence. Other Hong Kongers in Australia include the children of colonial parentage (British and/or other European (mostly Portuguese) heritage, and people with ancestries from other parts of the former

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History

Australian Census 2011 demographic map - Inner Sydney by POA - BCP field 1536 Hong Kong SAR of China Total

According to the 2021 Australian census, 100,148 Australians were born in

; a figure that would exclude first-generation immigrants from Hong Kong who were born elsewhere, as well as descendants of immigrants who were born in Australia. The corresponding figure on ancestry was not collected.

Notable Hong Kong Australians

* Benjamin Law – writer and journalist *

Clara Law Clara Law Cheuk-yiu (, born 29 May 1957 in Macau) is a Hong Kong Second Wave film director. Law currently resides in Australia. Early life Clara Law was born on 29 May 1957 in Macau. At the age of 10 she moved to Hong Kong. Law studied at the ...

– film director (born in Macau) * John So, AO, JP– 102nd

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* Raymond Chan – basketballer * Lindy Hou, OAM –

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and World Champion Tandem Cyclist * Kenneth To – swimmer * Gladys Liu - Liberal member for Chisholm * Curtis Cheng - victim of Jihadist terrorist attack during the 2015 Parramatta shooting * Jared Lum – footballer * Sam Chui - Aviation blogger *

Brad Turvey Brad Turvey (born 10 March 1978) is a Filipino actor and video jockey of Channel International. Early life Brad Turvey and his twin brother Greg Turvey were born on 10 March 1978 in Hong Kong (then a British territory) to a late Scottish Aus ...

- former model and TV host in the Philippines (born in Hong Kong to a Hong Kong Chinese mother) *

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- model (born in Singapore to Hong Kong Chinese mother) *

Stephanie Jacobsen Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen (born 1980), also known as "Stephany", is a Hong Kong-born Australian actress. Early life and education Jacobsen was born in British Hong Kong. Her family moved to Australia when she was twelve years old. She is Chi ...

- actress & TV host (born in Hong Kong) * Anjali Rao - journalist & TV news program host (born in Hong Kong)

References

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Description

History

Notable Hong Kong Australians

See also

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