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> fake Eiffel Tower, and the Venetian I never understood this wholesale copying (Its not just China, look at Las Vegas). Do people actually like being in a f
by pm90 9y ago
> fake Eiffel Tower, and the Venetian
I never understood this wholesale copying (Its not just China, look at Las Vegas). Do people actually like being in a fake Eiffel Tower? Wouldn't it be much better for a city with history like Macau to emphasize that instead?
- subway 9y agoVegas does it explicitly for the over-the-top absurdity. I can't speak for Macau, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the same is true.
- eggy 9y agoIt's almost the same. It's the same players putting up the same things.
- pwaai 9y agoSo in China, lot of people don't have the luxury of travelling to the actual place, so they just build it within China because of the demand. This is what I've been told but in reality it seems a bit like GDP fudging, with endless construction projects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3XfpYxHKCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3XfpYxHKCo
- FabHK 9y agoOver in Shenzhen, there's the "Window of the world", a theme park that features smaller reproductions of sights worldwide such as the pyramids, Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, Eiffel tower, Mount Rushmore, etc. It's quite entertaining, and pretty expensive for Chinese standards (180 CNY, about 28 USD). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_of_the_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_of_the_World
- subway 9y agoSounds an awful lot like Epcot.
- eggy 9y agoExcept Macau, although China, is really different. Hong Kong Chinese are influenced by the British presence there for so many years, and the Macanese by the Portuguese. Believe me it is Las Vegas in SE Asia except it is built upon a lot of history. Not like Las Vegas which sprung up out of the desert based upon a mobster's dreams of a mobster-type city - gambling, booze and the rest.