According to the TimeOut magazine, there are around 6.

4% of ethnic minorities
are currently living at Hong Kong by 20131, which is around 460,000 people, and
multiple reports stated that there would be more ethnic minorities moving to Hong Kong
in later years. However, out of this 460,000 ethnic minorities, 80% of them are
considered as low-paid and low-skilled jobs, which they earned less than $8,000 per
month (Oxfam, 2011)2. In addition, there is a record high unemployment rate of 24% for
the ethnic minorities by 2006, and 90% in the unemployment rate are females (census,
2006)3. In other words, many of the ethnic minorities families are facing serious financial
problems. The common reasons behind of this desperate situation are cultural barriers,
language barriers and lack of education.4 Problems of ethnic minorities has been very
understated and only few community services are willing to provide and help them. Thus,
in this essay I will demonstrate my entrepreneurial idea to ease the problems that the
Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong are facing.
The core reason that ethnic minorities are holding back and not improving with
the society is that they still stuck by the cultural barrier set in the old days. The cultural
belief that Men should be the one who is working while women should stay at home.
This belief made thousands of female to become unemployed as they need to stop going
to school which wasted their talents and potential, making them less educated to be
qualified in the Hong Kong Job Market. In 2013, a famous successful ethnic minority
feminist who lives in Hong Kong, Ms. Puja Kapai, given a speech in the TEDxHKUST
talk about her life and tried to inspired ethnic minorities in Hong Kong and the world to
stop forbidding themselves from doing what they want to do because of the cultural
belief, and be an outlier to strive for their dream.5 From my perspective, if we could

Big Smog. "The Government's Proposed Ethnic Minority Survey." Time Out Hong Kong. Time Out Hong Kong, 07 Nov. 2013.
Web. 25 Oct. 2014. <http://www.timeout.com.hk/big-smog/features/62012/the-governments-proposed-ethnic-minoritysurvey.html>.
2

O.N.E. "Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong." Oxfam Hong Kong. Oxfam Hong Kong, 2011. Web. 25 Oct. 2014. <http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.oxfam.org.hk%2Fen%2Fone_556.aspx>.
3

HK Census. ": Hong Kong 2006 Population By-census Thematic Report : Ethnic Minorities." : Hong Kong 2006 Population
By-census Thematic Report : Ethnic Minorities (2006): n. pag. Web. <http://www.bycensus2006.gov.hk/FileManager/EN/
Content_962/06bc_em.pdf>.
4

"Difficulties That Ethnic Minorities Face in Hong Kong." Multicultural Harmony. Multicultural Harmony, 2010. Web. 25 Oct.
2014. <http://www.sscem.org/napalese.php?page=page_8>.
5

Kapai, Puja. "Compulsive Sterotyping and Its Effects on Our Dreams: Puja Kapai at TEDxHKUST." YouTube. YouTube, 2 Apr.
2013. Web. 25 Oct. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp8_FRt7Gns>.

make a platform to inform, motivate and help these ethnic minorities females in Hong
Kong to develop their hidden potential by helping them to strive for their dreams instead
by restricted themselves by some cultural belief, first this would improve their financial
status in their family, second this would breed more better equip and more compatible
people in the Hong Kong society, which would also improve Hong Kong to become
better society.