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He's not entirely wrong. Hongkongers sometimes have irrational dislike of Chinese from mainland. I've seen it first hand growing up in Vancouver. The Hong Kong kids do not mingle with the mainland kids here, and they have a condescending attitude towards them. They always sat in different tables in the cafeteria. Many Hongkongers consider mainlanders dirty and uncivilized, and get pissed off when I told them that they were essentially the same people. Think of how lefties San Francisco view conservatives in deep south, except even more polarized.
Every news that comes from Hong Kong you see people being interviewed who point out to the whole world that they are not China. Sweden's television interviewed Hong Kong residents about a satirical program from Sweden that joked about Chinese who behave badly when traveling to other countries as tourists. The Hong Kong team again points out that it is the Chinese who behave like indecent people.
So yes, I have come to the view that Hong Kong and China are not the same if you ask them.