"The most obvious aspect is the language the media use," says Pang Ka Fat, a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's School of Journalism and Communication and former professor at Taiwan's National Cheng Chi University. With A-Tsan fading from Hong Kong's collective memory, the new discriminatory euphemisms of choice most commonly seen in the Chinese-language media are "northern girl" and "mainland girl."
「最明顯的就是媒體使用的語言，」台灣女婿、甫從政大退休的香港中文大學新聞系高級講師彭家發指出，當「阿燦」逐漸自港人記憶中淡去，新的歧視辭彙如「北姑」，仍大量見於各媒體。