JeKnYan

The term is not technically. It's what the newer generations have been led to believe and how such rumours are spread, or what the citizens consider themselves due to politics and also due to their early days of colonisation. They are realistically and geographically speaking, part of China. As this forum doesn't allow for politics to be discussed, I can't and will not explain further as the mixture of history will involve the discussion of Hong Kong's politics as well. 

We are free to believe what we want to believe on the internet. Alright, if you don't want to talk about it, I won't

You must also remember, propaganda is a huge part of social media as well as official news channels.

I'm a Singaporean Chinese myself so I actually do know  (except for the fact that I continuously failed my Chinese language horribly ever since my young days & till now, I still suck at it due to the whole modern civilisation/generation X and more etc etc..) But yes, I shall now stay away from talking about such stuff on your shipping status. Apologies.