<p style="margin-top:0.0000pt; margin-right:0.0000pt; margin-bottom:0.0000pt; margin-left:0.0000pt; text-indent:0.0000pt; layout-grid-mode:char; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric; text-justify:inter-ideograph; background:#ffffff; "><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">1961年，加泰隆尼亞民間發起「新歌運動」(New Song Movement)，以加泰隆尼亞語創作流行歌曲，在佛朗歌政權鎮壓本土文化的不利環境下，將加泰隆尼亞語保存在尋常百姓家 ── 因為加泰隆尼亞人深知，一旦喪失了語言和文化的「獨特性」，其自治地位的「正當性」(Legitimacy)也將永遠消逝。</span></p><p style="margin-top:0.0000pt; margin-right:0.0000pt; margin-bottom:0.0000pt; margin-left:0.0000pt; text-indent:0.0000pt; layout-grid-mode:char; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric; text-justify:inter-ideograph; background:#ffffff; "> </p><p style="margin-top:0.0000pt; margin-right:0.0000pt; margin-bottom:0.0000pt; margin-left:0.0000pt; text-indent:0.0000pt; layout-grid-mode:char; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric; text-justify:inter-ideograph; background:#ffffff; "><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> 一國兩制下香港自治地位的「正當性」，正正緣於香港是有別於中國大陸的獨特社會，而這種「獨特性」除了體現在自由、法治、廉潔等「在地核心價值」外，也在於繁體字書寫和廣東話文化。這些「獨特性」一旦被淘空，香港人將再無正當理由，去延續我城的自治地位。</span></p><p style="margin-top:0.0000pt; margin-right:0.0000pt; margin-bottom:0.0000pt; margin-left:0.0000pt; text-indent:0.0000pt; layout-grid-mode:char; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric; text-justify:inter-ideograph; background:#ffffff; "> </p><p style="margin-top:0.0000pt; margin-right:0.0000pt; margin-bottom:0.0000pt; margin-left:0.0000pt; text-indent:0.0000pt; layout-grid-mode:char; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric; text-justify:inter-ideograph; background:#ffffff; "><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">因此，要保持我城的自治地位，關鍵在於建構和捍衛香港有別中國大陸的獨特性，而繁體字和廣東話將是重要利器。全面排拒簡體字和普通話，恐怕既不現實也不可行；但我們必須捍衛繁體字和廣東話在公共領域(政府、學校、傳媒、交通工具等等)的主導地位，更需要復興粵語流行文化(港產片、港劇和廣東歌)。</span></p><p style="margin-top:0.0000pt; margin-right:0.0000pt; margin-bottom:0.0000pt; margin-left:0.0000pt; text-indent:0.0000pt; layout-grid-mode:char; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric; text-justify:inter-ideograph; background:#ffffff; "> </p><p style="margin-top:0.0000pt; margin-right:0.0000pt; margin-bottom:0.0000pt; margin-left:0.0000pt; text-indent:0.0000pt; layout-grid-mode:char; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric; text-justify:inter-ideograph; background:#ffffff; "><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> 本土民主運動的戰場，已不再局限於爭取民主政制，更要在社會各層面在地捍衛包括繁體字和廣東話在內的香港「獨特性」。</span></p><p style="margin-top:0.0000pt; margin-right:0.0000pt; margin-bottom:0.0000pt; margin-left:0.0000pt; text-indent:0.0000pt; layout-grid-mode:char; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric; text-justify:inter-ideograph; background:#ffffff; "> </p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; background: #ffffff;">（作者為</span><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; background: #ffffff;">香港教育學院亞洲及政策研究學系助理教授</span><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; background: #ffffff;">）</span></p>