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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jun-2022 16:29:47 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   There must be a catchier term for it, but I'll use "Canada boomerangs" for now as a placeholder. It's a phenomenon.
   
   They are people who were born in Hong Kong, but then before Handover in 1997 and after Tiananmen Square in 1989 their families worried how bad the city would become so they moved to Vancouver or Toronto and they went to primary and secondary school there.
   
   Later when they were of age, in the early 00s, they saw that things weren't that bad and moved to Hong Kong again without their parents.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jun-2022 16:35:49 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Now after the bad handling of the extradition law, the protests, the national security law and election shenanigans, many of the boomerangs are looping back to Canada again. It did get worse, it just took two decades slower than the pessimists thought.
     
     Some of them are staying. For now.
   • David Bremner (bremner@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jun-2022 23:15:07 UTC David Bremner

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     @clacke Hong Kong's loss is Canada's gain. Again.

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