A system of class division as crude as it gets...

 Immersed in a sea of language preferences and problems of polyglossia, I often find in my children's formal (government subsidised) education in this city a blatant lack of encouragement for critical thought skills. This makes me ponder over the reasons behind this substantial (and probably not accidental) flaw: Teaching critical thought in HK? My ass. Such a thing has never happened here. That's dangerous for the colonial/local elite of owners and bosses, and also for its doberman-style managerial class. It questions and jeopardises their privileges and mechanisms of domination. Instead, you need to fork out loads of dollars for your kids to go to an international school and learn the lingo and the skills of the bosses/entrepreneurs. Otherwise, you'd better get into terms that they will be raised up to become diligent, submissive employees, with a high spirit of loyalty (toxic corporatism, most probably) and a guilt complex (induced over-responsibility as an individual)  that will prevent them from feeling exploited or treated unfairly. Submission and sacrifice vs risk-taking and innovative spirit. That's the duality of the so-called "educative system" of this city, and it's not a free choice for most (we can also argue that every city in the world suffers this duality, but in few places is so obvious and sharp as it is here). It comes with a very specific (and expensive) price tag. This is, definitely, a system of class division as crude as it gets.