In 1880, the commander of the British Garrison at Hong Kong, General Donovan, wrote that the local Chinese give "ocular, auricular, and nasal demonstration of how unfitted they are for the neighborhood of Europeans," giving clear expression to the discriminatory sentiments of the day.
一八八○年英國駐港部隊指揮官艾．多諾班上校寫道：「在視覺上、聽覺上和嗅覺上，歐洲人無法接受中國人為鄰居。」種族歧視的惡意，躍然紙上。