Thousands of high school students had forsaken the afternoon to demonstrate outside the Hong Kong government’s headquarters against a jingoistic national education course briefly added to the school’s curriculum last month. Amid the roars from the crowd, a member of a parents’ group that opposed the course, which potentially included evaluating the emotional responses of children to the Chinese flag, was making the argument that ethnicity – and indeed patriotism – was a silly basis for citizenship.
两个月前，成千上万的香港学生放弃下午上课时间，到香港特区政府大楼前进行示威，抗议在学校课程中加入强制推行的国民教育课。在甚嚣尘上的反对浪潮中，对国民教育课（包括评价学生对国旗的感情反应程度）持反对意见的家长团体某成员争辩说，用种族观念（实则是爱国主义理念）来界定公民身份基础的做法非常愚蠢。
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