Or both, or neither. I leave my options open. [A small smirk. He knows he's fucked up.]
[Ah, Marco says without ties to their "crews" meaning their citizens, family is the closest surrogate, but that doesn't change the difficulty of being only 150 compared to 4000 and 2300ish. Throw in a healthy dose of time period differences and Hong Kong represents the future, especially with them being "in the past" from his perspective, so he wants them to see and acknowledge that the future is better, even though it also means "Hong Kong is better" in a lesser sense.]
[voice]
[Ah, Marco says without ties to their "crews" meaning their citizens, family is the closest surrogate, but that doesn't change the difficulty of being only 150 compared to 4000 and 2300ish. Throw in a healthy dose of time period differences and Hong Kong represents the future, especially with them being "in the past" from his perspective, so he wants them to see and acknowledge that the future is better, even though it also means "Hong Kong is better" in a lesser sense.]