China Pirates Austrian Village

First time accepted submitter thecoolstacks writes "Knockoff Apple Stores are one thing...but a knockoff Austrian village? That's some hardcore piracy right there, but we guess leave it China to do what it does best. From the article: 'After a year of construction and a price tag of $940 million dollars, the Chinese have successfully recreated the Austrian village of Hallstatt in its entirety over in the Southern Guangzhou Province. And let’s just say not every Austrian’s a fan of having their UNESCO heritage site ripped off. But since China is Austria’s second largest trading partner, what are you gonna do?'"

Comments

Pirates?

[Spritzer]

Seriously? Pirated? How about mimics, copies, or "builds replica of". I guess the next time I build a table for a friend based on another design I'll be a patch wearing, one-legged, parrot lover too. Ridiculous!!

Re:Pirates?

[Anonymous Coward]

Clone is a good word: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/2332224/china-secretly-clones-austrian-village

Re:Pirates?

[purpledinoz]

I guess Las Vegas pirated the Eiffel Tower, New York, and Venice... the copy is never is good as the original.

Re:Pirates?

[Lumpy]

Sorry, I did not read the stories of how Blackbeard the pirate would copy someone's idea.

Yarr me maties! Le'ts copy that ship! Get out yer measurin' thingies and cameras!

Re:Pirates?

[flyneye]

Yeah, I'm not sure about outrage as a response, either. Isn't the sick enticement of instant vacation to take you somewhere else, cheaply?
Disney did this decades before China. ( I notice that not unlike China, Disney also twists propaganda into stories to indoctrinate children politically)
Think about it a while and the concept is mirrored in everything from restaurants to Indian theme summer camps, from Las Vegas theme casinos to dude ranches.
Someones culture is borrowed, chewed, swallowed,digested and packaged for mass consumption. So China copies a town, big deal.

Re:Pirates?

[Anonymous Coward]

You probably found the reason for the European economical problems. Can you imagine all those tourists in Vegas that should actually be spending their money in the Eiffel tower, Venice and others? If a CD goes for 100,000$ penalty, then a single Eiffel tower with thousands of tourists every week could probably wipe out the entire European debt.

Problem solved.

Dupe

[DiSKiLLeR]

Dupe.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/2332224/china-secretly-clones-austrian-village

To be fair, its more than a day or two. But only 2 weeks ago.

Re:Dupe

[phantomfive]

Quick! Go find a +5 post and past it into this story! Instant karma! Like I did copying this post from the previous dupe!

Re:Dupe

[ignavus]

Dupe.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/2332224/china-secretly-clones-austrian-village

To be fair, its more than a day or two. But only 2 weeks ago.

So, it is a duplicate of a story about a duplicate of a village?

Re:Dupe

[wvmarle]

Submitters also really have a problem with the location.

First article: not mentioned.

This article: false location. It is in Guangzhou (also known by its old English name of Canton) all-right, but that's the name of a city, not a province. This city in Guangdong province, which is in the south of China. There is no "Southern Guangzhou Province" in China.

Villages are copyrighted?

[EdIII]

Seriously, how do articles like this get accepted in the first place?

China made a village in the exact style, placements, etc. of an Austrian village. Piracy? Piracy, hardcore, piracy is what China does best? What kind of baseless insult is that? Is this news, or some emotional butthurt editorial from an Austrian?

Does that mean that large parts of China Town ripped off China? Las Vegas ripped off France with its mini Eiffel Tower?

Get real. I can't even believe this is an article. Should not have even made it to Idle.

Re:Villages are copyrighted?

[AmiMoJo]

Far more interesting (to me) is that they built it in just one year. We are not talking cheap high-rise blocks thrown up, there is some real skill and craftsmanship here.

Re:Oh God..

[azalin]

Oh God... the ninjas... they're turning into pirates!

Thank you for the image of a black clad ninja with a wooden leg and a parrot on his shoulder. Now all they need to do is to find out how to move silently while saying "Arrrrh!" at the same time.

I applaud the Chinese and I'm Austrian.

[Anonymous Coward]

Austria is being paved over with highways, strip malls, excessive parking, soulless suburbs and soviet style housing projects at breakneck speed. Our decadent and postmodernist elites plunck down atrocities like these (Kunsthaus Graz) into the middle of our beautiful town centers.
The income from tourism provides the only political motivation for some restraint. Funny how tourists aren't interested in any places or buildings that were built during the last 60 years. But even this concern is considered parochial and therefore under constant attack from the (pseudo)intellectual class. To preserve what is beautiful is disparaged as "wishing to live in a museum". A redoubled effort to build even more brutalist and grotesque structures on the other hand is alleged to bring a more "sophisticated" set of tourists.

Great civilizations imitate and learn from the achievements of the past and others and build upon it. The modernism and postmodernism of the West on the other hand seeks to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch. The result is perpetual dilettantism.

The Chinese are on the right track. I wish they would copy more or even build an Austrian town here in Austria.