Late-joined regions share a political estrangement from their larger state regardless of continent

Evidence

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region had a relationship to the People’s Republic of China that was not dissimilar to Western Ukraine’s relationship to the Soviet Union: it joined the country late, after occupying pivotal space in the Cold War, and its residents shared little of the history, the vocabulary, and the triumphs and tragedies of the long socialist struggle understood by people in the larger country. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 572