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I think it really hard to say how many HKers identify themselves as 'Chinese', because 'Chinese' is such a complex term. Even in Taiwan where many pro-independence youngsters call themselves Taiwanese, many of the older generation still consider themselves as Chinese, and they refuse to call their country 'Taiwan', and use 'Republic of China' instead. People from Puerto Rico may first identify themselves as Puerto Rican, and then US citizen.

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Puerto Rican call themselves Puerto Ricans because (1) they're not yet a state, and (2) the term defines both a region and an ethnicity.

There's little similarity between their relation to the U.S. and HK or Taiwan's relation to China, especially since the U.S. and its territories are all democracies.

Chinese can be an adjective or a noun. Most will accept the adjective e.g "Chinese culture" but will not accept the noun e.g "Wong is a Chinese"

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