What's with this idea that the country that nurtured you, and the culture that you were raised in, and where you live, is some "accident of birth"?
You can always immigrate.
But even for immigrants, their native country, if they spend their formative years there, is not some mere "accident of birth", anymore than your family is or your kid is (after all what is a kid? Some accident of birth as well, could have made another kid with another person -- not to mention who your spouse is among 8 billion is an "accident of meeting", etc)
Yes, very true. I was responding to the idea that a person should be patriotic, though. Although in Mr. Chan's case, surely that would imply he should be pro-Hong Kong, whatever that means...
You can always immigrate.
But even for immigrants, their native country, if they spend their formative years there, is not some mere "accident of birth", anymore than your family is or your kid is (after all what is a kid? Some accident of birth as well, could have made another kid with another person -- not to mention who your spouse is among 8 billion is an "accident of meeting", etc)