political passiveness at work

At where I work, all of my colleagues around me are pretty well educated. All of them have at least a bachelor's degree from respectable colleges in Hong Kong and around the world. Most of them are well read. Some of us have attained master degrees yet most my colleagues are either naive, uninterested or unaware of current affairs, world politics and etc...

I formulated few excuse for my colleagues:
-Most of my colleagues are females, who are generally less interested in politics than men.
-I work in a Chinese company, and under the all powerful Beijing government, we should not express our political views too loudly for job security.

But actually, when asked, my colleagues do have some political stands even if some of them might be flawed.

Another thing i noticed from my Hong Kong colleagues is that they are somewhat impatient with movies and literatures (especially in English) with an attitude that resembles lackluster American teenagers. Of course, my Hong Kong colleagues have the knowledge to appreciate some meaningful but long movies, and should have a adequate literacy level to understand and make literature an enjoyable recreational past time, but no too many of them do that.

For many of us who grew up elsewhere, especially in my generation or older, we read for pleasure from time to time, and many of us would happily spend a day doing nothing but reading. that would only be possible for people 40's or over here. People in the 20s don't do that in Hong Kong. Okay, except those romance and martial art novels for youth.