Anti-Hong Kong sentiment runs deep in China

Mainlanders feel they are being looked down upon as protests intensify

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A pro-democracy protester is arrested by police in a Hong Kong shopping mall on Sept. 22. © Getty Images

TETSUSHI TAKAHASHI, Nikkei China bureau chief

HONG KONG -- As protests continue in Hong Kong, more people on the mainland are expressing ill feelings about Hong Kongers, complaining that the city's residents look down on them despite being fellow Chinese.

With young protesters chanting: "We are not Chinese," the emotional rift between the two sides seem widening ever further.

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