Compared to Hong Kong, society in general did not have much contact with the outside world. Moreover, because the people were still unadulterated by any high degree of commercialization, added to which there was a generally high level of education, they preserved comparatively more of their traditional values.
比起香港來，整個社會在過去對外接觸不多，又因尚未真正高度商業化而民風淳樸，加上教育水準普遍較高，所以人們一般保留較多傳統的價值觀，重視人際關係，講究人情，也比較追求精神上的滿足。