China will now clone a village

[ThePresence]

http://bestplaces.nydailynews.com/stories/chinese-firm-plans-recreate-picturesque-austrian-village

No, not really clone. Copy.
Is there any real innovation in China?

 

[Binarycow]

ever been to Las Vegas? I believe what happens here is called capitalism married to consumerism and that they certainly copy from us.

 

[gaidensensei]

According to this thread, some chinese express distaste in copying it:

http://www.eurotravel.tw/forum/read.php?tid=18876

I agree with what was said in both the site and that discussion though. You can't copy culture, it's staying there in Hallstatt.

Edit: Construction began pic:

 

[AstroManLuca]

The Chinese don't really have the concepts of "intellectual property" or "copyright" in their culture. They copy everything. Seen some of those cars that obviously copy design elements and logos from the big world automakers? Or look up a game called "Final Combat," which is just a reskinned Team Fortress 2.

 

[zinfamous]

I assume it will remain an unpopulated ghost town, like most of their other lolprojects?

 

[zinfamous]

The Chinese don't really have the concepts of "intellectual property" or "copyright" in their culture. They copy everything. Seen some of those cars that obviously copy design elements and logos from the big world automakers? Or look up a game called "Final Combat," which is just a reskinned Team Fortress 2.

the big national exams happened last week or the week before, right?

There were several stories and articles out at that time about the massive failure that is Chinese education--this test that determines your future, as it is based on your skills for rote memorization. Great for creating automatons and sweat shop workers, piss poor for training innovators.

Their inability to do anything new, and rely on copying and pirating as the foundation of their economy in this communist state isn't terribly shocking, as that is what they are trained to do since birth. It is the single largest crisis that they are now failing to address at a national level. They are supposed to be the fastest rising, dominant world economy, but it's currently built on a foundation of copy work and cheap labor.

 

[ThePresence]

They are supposed to be the fastest rising, dominant world economy, but it's currently built on a foundation of copy work and cheap labor.

In a a sense, it's true, they are. They can produce much more, much cheaper. But it's because they pay their workers a bowl of a rice, a pack of smokes and a dormitory bed. It's not hard to build a huge economy on slave labor. But that's why you have iphone workers jumping off buildings.

 

[Wyndru]

Will it be built by clones?

 

[ThePresence]

Will it be built by clones?

No, slaves.

 

[Broheim]

well, if you're gonna build ghost towns you might as well build scenic ghost towns...

 

[gaidensensei]

the big national exams happened last week or the week before, right?

There were several stories and articles out at that time about the massive failure that is Chinese education--this test that determines your future, as it is based on your skills for rote memorization. Great for creating automatons and sweat shop workers, piss poor for training innovators.

Their inability to do anything new, and rely on copying and pirating as the foundation of their economy in this communist state isn't terribly shocking, as that is what they are trained to do since birth. It is the single largest crisis that they are now failing to address at a national level. They are supposed to be the fastest rising, dominant world economy, but it's currently built on a foundation of copy work and cheap labor.

I think you are on to something. Specifically chinese education seems to follow a systematic routine that disfavors freely flowing, creative thinking that we find in our K-12 (American) english courses. Abacus, memorizing chinese characters and rubrix cubes are used as a free time for little kids than reading stories and novels. Instead an approach towards routine knowledge and cycled information is seen. You can see that from their adeptness towards math, hard sciences and the likes, while less emphasis on fictitious works.

Well, it seems to be a true stereotype in real life anyway, just look at some of the engineering guys around here (outside of OT) and they seem to prefer fundamentals of reality than creativity rather than our freely abiding OT.

 

[0roo0roo]

been doin this for a long time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_of_the_World

 

[zinfamous]

I think you are on to something. Specifically chinese education seems to follow a systematic routine that disfavors freely flowing, creative thinking that we find in our K-12 (American) english courses. Abacus, memorizing chinese characters and rubrix cubes are used as a free time for little kids than reading stories and novels. Instead an approach towards routine knowledge and cycled information is seen. You can see that from their adeptness towards math, hard sciences and the likes, while less emphasis on fictitious works.

Well, it seems to be a true stereotype in real life anyway, just look at some of the engineering guys around here (outside of OT) and they seem to prefer fundamentals of reality than creativity rather than our freely abiding OT.

I'm just repeating the several stories that I heard and read the last couple of weeks. The real journalists and economists are on to something.

It seems that from an economics and business perspective, China is on the verge of completely collapsing under it's tragic refusal to innovate.

Their economic model is basically that of a thrift store.

 

[0roo0roo]

http://chinhdangvu.blogspot.com/2008/07/kung-fu-panda-hits-sore-spot-in-china.html
yea reminds me of this article on kung fu panda...and how the chinese were a bit miffed at how they probably couldn't make something like that.