[I have never experienced the colonial era, but I am more "colonial" than them] Sharing session

Queen Elizabeth II returned home at the beginning of the month. As soon as the news of her death came out, it immediately touched the hearts of many Hong Kong people. Many young people who were born after 1997 and have never experienced the era of British rule also went to the British Consulate in Hong Kong to express condolences and present flowers to pay tribute to the Queen of England. But where does their sense of identity with the Queen and Britain come from? Woolen cloth? Is that based on the fact that Hong Kong was once a British colony, and then reflected the sense of identity with Hong Kong on the Queen? Or is it just a reminiscence of the golden age of Hong Kong, and the Queen of England is the collective memory of that era in Hong Kong? Or does the Queen of England have other…