But by this year, just under half of Asians were in the 25-plus crowd. Today, a rising number of people are reaching the age when they are beginning to ask the more profound questions of faith, as well as challenging the money-oriented values that have marked much of developing Asia in the past 20 years. But his faith is also tinged with a bitter scepticism towards his home town's materialist values. Hong Kong is a very money-oriented place. Everything has a dollar symbol on it.
People here think money can buy anything, even friendship.
You can think. Life in the city is so complicated. Indeed, each of Asia's organized religions realize that the region's youth are the rich marrow they need to tap if they are to remain relevant. For proselytizers, from Christian missionaries to the Hare Krishna movement, rock concerts and university lecture circuits are becoming the norm for reaching out to young people. The young are responding.