i am proud to be cantonese but not "chinese." In my prospective, Hong Kong and mainland china are very diffrent to call it the same.
I used to be very proud but as time went by, I've become less chauvinistic about it. You can remain proud only for so long, like everything else.
of course, iam proud to be chinse, i love chinese food, love chinese movies, chinese people! i love myself ! so ya im proud.
to bad there are cantonese people in the mainland, macau, etc. and too bad the hker's ARE chinese. even many taiwanese are chinese by ethicity. you cant screw with that. you might as well say you are proud to be an hk chinese.