Criticism
- The creation of a new nationality (with fewer privileges) has been met with criticism, as many Hong Kong residents felt the British citizenship would have been more appropriate in light of the "moral debt" owed to them by the UK. There were also British politicians and magazines criticizing the nationality.
- The British Nationality Law 1981 has been criticised that different classes of British statuses are in fact closely related to the ethnic origin of the holder by experts; as well as by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of the United Nations.
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“Parents sometimes feel that if they don’t criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn’t make people want to change; it makes them defensive.”
—Laurence Steinberg (20th century)
“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world—though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst—the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)