The Weird World of China's Copycat Architecture
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- Look familiar? Copies of some of the world's most famous buildings are appearing in China. We countdown the top ten most head-turning replicas. For more videos by The B1M subscribe now - ow.ly/GxW7y
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The Chinese don't talk about 'copyright', but rather about 'right to copy'.
Chinese laws apply in China...
@Touhidul Islam Abir true, started w the Romans copying the Greek
No they literally have copy right
right?
@Sweetbutter Cupcakes modern day Europe's ancestors aren't all greeks though?
When you put all the landmarks in Sim City.
You still playing that turd ?
LOL
😂😂
😂😂😂👌
I play the hacked version lol 😂
One thing they cannot copy: democracy
👏
Ask the Americans for help, they know what FREEDOM looks like HAHAHAHA
@@gnrdp use oil as lure
Which democracy are you talking about? Like the false US democracy?
@Admiral Ackbar’s adopted son You clearly must have a racism disorder if you start crying over this. Get some help or easy way out.
The chinese have produced stunning and beautiful architecture of their own over the centuries. I do not understand this need to poorly replicate somebody elses.
Me neither.. their culture was so beautiful and full of amazing creations and ideas. Now its such a disappointment.
Communism ruined Chinese culture. Research Mao’s cultural revolution
Why do you care though? What about it is offending you? If people in china want to live in a british style village, why not let them?
simple answer: communism happend
@@moos5221 where does it say it offended me?. If Michelangelo stopped painting the sistine chapel halfway through to start doing second rate copys of jackson pollocks work wouldnt you want to know why? And yes i know the timelines wrong.
Kid: Can we see Europe?
Parent: No we have Europe at Home!
Europe at Home:
It'll be the only europe that is left in 50 years when real Europe is destroyed.
People say that this is still paltry compared to the real thing. Well every single modern building is nothing compared to this. Some people in the west are narcissistic and delusional and think that just because their older buildings built at least a century ago are more ornate than these buildings it somehow compensates for the fact that they can’t produce anything similar in the present for a decent price. We build. Glass and steel. Boxes.
@@rixille I thought I was the only one who thinks this
@@rosaline953 Silent majority.
If it keeps the nightmare tourists staying home in china, then great.
This replicas look absolutely terrible
especially the Sydney Opera house one lol
LOL
+brickman409 - Ha! You’ll see we squeezed that one in. Couldn’t really leave it out!
Michael Kinley
Especially Paris
american buildings look horrible anyway
If you think that thing looks anything like the Sydney Opera House you need glasses.
Well, the architect obviously copied the design of the Sydney Opera and modified it to suit the position on the hill and to make it suitable to live in.
@@moos5221 you obviously need glasses
Lmao ikr that building was crusty af
2:06 listen closely, he said *attempt* to replicated, looks like it didnt go well
@@moos5221 If you think so then the Sydney Opera House is a replica of the watertraps from Dune art. Or of half a rowboat.
When your national policy is Ctrl C + Ctrl V
That's a lot of damage.
Ctrl C Ctrl V
🤣🤣
Then Ctrl ALT and delete. 😂
Actually Chinese goverment banned it, and we all feel ashamed...
The building were built for Software engineers by a company that considering they're employee, spending most of their time on work, are too difficult to visit Europe ...
The opera house ripoff made me spit my milk out
There is a similar monument in India called lotus temple and the Chinese copied that too and didn't even give any credit or regarded it as a replica
Ikr
Definitely the best one!😂
Rip-off of the Sydney opera house. Almost no resemblance. 1 out of 10.
I was like WTF? Then I realised, it's because it's difficult to copy. Like the Kremlin, I was like WTF is that (again)!
When the Chinese replicate the Great pyramid of Giza, I'll then be impressed.
Yeah, and mkae it slowly crumble, exactly the same way nd time as the real thing
They already made an awful copy of the sphinx lol
They should make it, but do a high tech version instead. That would be really awesome. I would totally visit it.
Well the Chinese probably look at this like "Hold my bat soup"
Thats easy. They can even replicate Tutankhamun's mummy. Just that they are not interested.
Those building are like a kid trying to copy landmarks in minecraft thinking it would be great
I think it's an interesting idea to rebuild english or french towns in china for people to live in, I don't think it's offensive or bad or lame at all.
@@moos5221 People won't live in them..
@@joshualogan6655 of course they do in some of them.
@Clinical Depression I think they're cool. But they're just that, cool.
Moos 'told you so' It wouldn’t be bad if only they didn’t do it just to show how “amazing” they are. And even if it wasn’t for that it’s still weird just entirely copying someone else’s city.
How to know if a building is a Chinese replica:
1. Smog in background
And gunky exteriors from acid rain
Like in the whole of asia
These replicas will really confuse future humans or aliens.
That implies that Chinese construction will stand the test of time. Most of these are cheaply built pieces of propaganda.
Lol
in the future they are gonna say the world is lying
ᚠᚱᛖᛞᛖ Forbidden castle and Great wall is waving
@@dauntlesskjcm4780 Not built by commies though
As a Chinese this is absolutely no way we are showing our power by copying famous architecture, it only shows how stupid some local governments are to even approve the constructions (or even build their own office like the Whitehouse). I feel embarrassed for this video as well, and we have so much to learn not only the architectural design and technology but also how an architect should contribute to this society in a good way.
Patrick Lin - a rising and confident power will make honest copies.
Agreed... The pseudo intellectual justification used is self evidently false.
For instance, no one honestly considers the replicas of the sphinx or Eiffel tower in las Vegas to be a sign of status or power.
They are unimaginative attractions, that's all.
It is also a reflex of how unethical Chinese people can be. All major developments there are the result of industrial espionage and the subsequent intellectual property they steal from the west. Once the creators of a great civilization, now chinese people are a big threat for the world.
Patrick Lin your power ??? Really thing that you have some sort of power
also need to learn not to kill students in tiananmen
china always thinks ahead: after 200 years past, chinese will claim the one in china is the real one and the one in europe is a replica. they would argue that this buildings were here since ancient times...
Lmao! Yes! I could totally see them doing that!
If their shoddy building methods don't doom them to collapse before then. Though if they really go the Big Brother route of revising everything in history to be the product of the CCP then maybe they'll invest enough in maintenance.
Very true. China's Communist Party are masters of deception. They eat anything that moves, and steal anything they can --including architectural landmarks.
Lol these copy cat buildings won't last that long like all other Chinese products 😂
I'm sure these copies won't be around in 20 years never mind 200. Just rememeber the 3 gorges dam was initially supposed to last 10,000 years. How's that going?
Fun fact, architecture reflects a country's culture, that's why, French architecture is different than Kremlin, and that's why, France doesn't build copycats of Kremlin, if they need more buildings they'll build it in their own traditional style...however china has completely wiped out their ancient culture, that's why, they need these copycats... Seems like, buildings need to be copyrighted as well.
shows in their military to, they hadn't had a real military for so long, that they yoinked everything from the Soviets and now the Russians
Thanks, Captain Kirk.
You can blame the Cultural Revolution, we do.
That’s why Las Vegas looks like shit
Chinas true history and heritage has been preserved in the country of Taiwan, which can be found off Chinas coast in the SE direction.
I can never understand why Chinese people like to copy other people’s work. And I’m chinese.
Blame it on Confucianism. Most unimaginative people I know.
donkeyenvious so why japanese copy chinese in past 1000years？
What about Las Vegas?
@@shitpostistan if I remember correctly Confucius values tradition. He would be rolling over his grave seeing modern Chinese copying the West
It's an Asian thing ..
"Made in China"
Yep.
Somebody check the basement for big logo sticker.
When aliens find these buildings they're gonna know which is the real deal and which are fake from that sticker
I lived in Shanghai for a few years, I live in Minhabg district, and on day I was biking around and I saw the Minhang People’s Court, I stoped and looked at it not believing what I was seeing. It’s in the middle of a residential area, quite poor and dirty area, I asked someone in the street what was that and they tried to explain me, they said something like ‘beautiful right? Our government is so powerful!’ With a huge smile. So yes, they copy buildings to impress their citizens, and it works
They get impressed or forced to be impressed?
Consequence of a deeply-rooted national inferiority complex
Can't be, china has some of the most amazing architecture and landmarks, looking down at a longer history then most other countries that exist today.
Moos 'told you so' CCP destroyed most of their own cultural and historical artifacts. So not really.
@@moos5221 thats old china, not todays china wich is a human hating killing dictatorship.
@@moos5221 they killed off all the old China back during the "cultural revolution", and then brainwashed the young leading to this.
This is really getting out of hand. Just saw a comment earlier with quote "China 'Our culture is superior'" implicating a superiority complex and now we got this inferiority complex claim can ya'll just stop making shit up its fucking stupid...
China: "can I copy your homework?"
The rest of the world: "yeah just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied"
China: "ok'"
Check the west history and then u will think whether 'copy' is appropriate or not. When So many porcelains of vast plates and etc. COPY the ancient Chinese style, and never mention that. Why dont u talk about that. When you take anything from east, u call it exotic and inspiring but never the word 'copy' shame on u.
lmao X-D
It's only Europe they're copying though
@Neel Javia
Actually, there are a lot of buildings modeled after the Chinese style.
There has been a design fashion called Chinoiserie in Europe, the most famous example is probably the Pagoda in Kew Gardens. Actually, the entire layout by William Chambers was inspired by Chinese traditional gardens.
www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-in-the-gardens/the-great-pagoda
daniel simon sorry bro but is not China the name of the style? In which case the Europeans have credited China with the making of your pottery. But I understand your frustration the world does have a lot of hypocrisy, but I most who are commenting her are just joking. Hope you have a good day bro
It all looks cheap and tacky. What a waste of money.
China faces some serious inferiority complex issues.
India was ruled by British and other Europeans for centuries, we speak European languages and understand European culture better than Chinese but even we don't try to replicate European buildings like this😑.
Part of it has to do with Mao's direction he wanted China to go culturally, and he wanted the culture to be redefined from the original traditional Chinese culture by any means. It's why realistic art was at it's height when he was in charge, part of it had to do with trying to have closer ties to the Soviet Union; but mostly the art was used as propaganda to reassure the CCP was supreme. With that, design elements were shaped to Mao's expectations, but I think it does make the government look like they have insecurities with their traditional culture when it should have been embraced.
The other part is that China for the past 20 years have been making a business in the country to demolish towns, that were once thousands of years old, for super cities with skyscrapers to impress the citizens and possible foreigners looking to invest. Over time though, the skyscrapers were either kept in control of the government forcing people to relocate when convenient, sometimes the towers sat empty with no one occupying the wasted space, or the buildings were built with little care of the durability of the structures. The sad part is that is was a custom for any member of a village who moved or relocated to a different region make an effort to visit their old homes, but the demolishing towns and villages is putting an end to that tradition.
As a Westerner, it bugs me that everyone is trying to follow the same cookie cutter architecture, I even hate the architecture in my home town. In my opinion, if I am going to travel to a foreign country, I want to have a chance to be immersed with the culture as much as possible. With the basic cheap architecture, it sort of ruins the effect that I traveled thousands of miles to a different place. It's why I am happy to see architecture built previously before WWII as it's the closest to relating to a countries' origins or understanding the history of the place. Not saying everyone worldwide can't advance or be inspired by different cultures, just it's appreciated when a country preserves their architecture.
An Indian talking about inferiority complex...lol
@@wifebeater69 looks like some indian took your job
@Francis The human psyche is so complex that a single old, sententious, and not to mention questionable phrase cannot even begin to describe it. Phrases like the one you just use have literally no meaning in this context.
It’s not just about inferiority complexes... the Chinese government wants to encourage as many of it’s people to stay within it’s borders, so building replicas of western landmarks, in their warped minds, will discourage western travel and therefore prevent more people from either wanting to leave China permanently or returning to China with open eyes from seeing the freedoms most westerners have.
Bad copies lacking all eye for detail and character. Soulless!
Yes.disgusting
For communists, soul does not exist!🤣
tacky anf cheap looking too.
Exactly! It’s miserable
@bloocarty make an educated guess
More Chinese knockoffs.
Deo Gratias Anglia it’s funny because they may be more “Chinese knock off‘s” but Westerners buy into that and will overlook certain things just to save a buck. You are making them extremely wealthy due to greedy corporations and cheap consumers. So your words say one thing, but you’re spending power (or lack of) says another.
Grant C. ~Just about how some morons are easily triggered and use a passive aggressive approach when they have no real legitimate reply. 👍
Grant C. ~I’m so proud of you. So your real name isn’t Grant and based on your description in your profile, you figured out all by yourself that Grant starts with the letter “G.” You’re such a big boy now......Sesame Street really paid off! 😂 Another clear indication that we have a fucking moron on our hands........pathetic.
Grant C. ~*YAWN* Thanks for further proving my point. It’s just hilarious that you think I (or anyone) would give a second thought about anything you had to say. I love how you are trying to reach for anything that shows you have an ounce of intelligence, but its another sad little fail sweetie. Keep trying Poindexter, maybe you’ll amount to something one day. 😁
Grant C. ~And enjoy your generic, anonymous TH-cam profile. It’s so easy to hide behind that so you can vent your own anger and frustrations out because it’s obvious you have plenty of it stored up. Something weaklings do. Besides your brain being under developed, pretty convinced your genitals aren’t far behind. Fragile male “masculinity” at stake here.
Nah, the Chinese were inspired by the Las Vegas Strip!!!
Except the US government had permission to copy everything they have...
Luca true but even on the Las Vegas Strip the replicas aren’t trying to be too accurate. And they are all attached to casinos as architectural follies. It’s a bit different than what’s going on in China.
tubedweeb so lets get it straight America can do it because they are not trying to make it accurate, But when China does the exact same thing they are copying? Talk about double standards.
I made an account To comment The situations are completely different
@@imadeanaccounttocomment7800 bro its either you get it or you dont! and youre not getting it. sorry to say but stop being an idiot
"copyright infringement doesn't translate to mandarin"
3:05 as a Russian, I can say it is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life! They even didn’t put the crosses on top of the buildings!
Im feeling your pain with the Sydney opera house. Upside is they are both probably just rendered plywood and will be gone fairly soon.
And looks less detail.
Incomplete copies, without the details in the workmanship.
Tbh, the one photo of it looks like it was digitally put in
@@matthplays-2312 yeah i agree it looks weirdly fake
#3 is awesome. Chinese being beaten in their own game by none other than "themselves".
Haha!
To me this is an embarrassment......to copy these structures mean you have no originality which is china is synonymous for...
Lance Burley I wouldn't put it on the over 1 billion people that live in China, but rather, particular people. Sure there are always going to be some average people that have this mentality, but it doesn't mean the majority of average people over there agree. I'm sure there are many average Chinese people with original and innovative ideas, but something stands in the way of them fulfilling all the original talent they DO have to give.
It IS. But that's what sells. Not only are we building these crap, we're also making old Chinese town replicas. So no need to get too mad about it. They'll die out when people become more artistically competent. And when real estate bubble pops.
Lance Burley it’s the communists.
Lance Burley when Mao took over he killed the creative, intelligent and successful.
I HATE TOUCANS don't confuse political idealogies with culture. China has innovated in its long history. This phenomenon of copying architecture is not cultural. Communism limits free thoughts and ideas. Without those two, you don't get innovation. And that is not representative of a nation's culture. That is a consequence of its brutal political system.
...”in china copying is not viewed with hostility”
Probably that’s because they’re the ones who have this questionable habit.
The kid copying the other kid's homework sees nothing wrong with what he is doing.
Bruh.... the Germans and French did the same thing in both the 1800s except in addition they also literally went to other countries stole their architecture and brought it back and reassembled it. Also European nobility would pay to have miniatures of famous monuments and ruins from far away countries built into their gardens.
Also DC city plan is copy of Paris. Not to mention countless other American governmental buildings and monuments. There is a copy of pyramid of gyza in Memphis and a carbon copy of the Parthenon in Nashville.
I could give 100s more examples from the ancient world as well. People have been copying stuff forever.
Like the romans would straight up copy 1 for 1 Greek temples and statues.
Humans have Copying things as symbols of status and power as well as novelty since the beginning of developed civilization.
@@wkiv_wkiv3214 whataboutism. Look it up.
Bruh why the tower bridge, it looks good cuz of its environment suited to its design... a random piece of Victorian architecture in the middle of China doesn’t look right
Something is deeply wrong with that country
If China can't own everything, they just horribly recreate everything within the country's borders.
Its bloody to invade the whole world so they copy the world.
lol, because they copied some buildings, that's a stretch
Don't talk about Chinese people like they're abstractions. They're humans too, they read TH-cam comments too, they feel the sting of exclusion the same way you do.
@@RunRonaldRun When most people criticize China, they usually criticize the government
Why does this dude look like he's shouting, when really he's whispering..
If you mute while he's on he looks like he's strung out and making faces
I know its so uncomfortable to watch him speak.
Recovering from a blood clot in his brain probably.
@@kck.Schrodinger13 I think he has too many teeth for his mouth. As someone who needed corrective orthodontics work done to prevent my molars wearing out and my jaw dislocating on the regular, I can sympathize.
@@wolfieinu Also looks post-synched.
I bet they can finish the Sagrada Familia from Gaudì, before the Spanish does 😆
But it will start to crumble within a year.
I have visited the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and Tower Bridge and these are lame, stale copies that don't measure up to the real thing.
The fact that there is an Arc de "Triomphe" in Paris is hilarious. It should be called "Arc de Running Away and Capitulating".
@@djxjxixsmjxjskjzxn1853 looks like someone need to learn more about french history before talking, memes are not history book they are satiric photos made for fun.
@@samiboudemagh9927 Well, as an Englishman I have the Battle of Agincourt (1415); The Battle of Trafalgar (1805); the Battle of Waterloo (1815) and the TWO World Wars to call upon as evidence. What's your opinion?
@@djxjxixsmjxjskjzxn1853 im not from france i'll bet a lot that you are not english but from one shitty country, english people are way more responsible and smart they won't say those stupid thigs because they know history, just for england the 1066 conquest is a lot.
@@djxjxixsmjxjskjzxn1853 yeah, I can't just put all the French victory, not the time and the space. We don't care about the stupid like you. The fact that France lead independant military campaigns alone unlike British or German say a lot about the French military past and the British military. You became the American's doggy in Europe Britain. Shame on you.
The tower bridge replica looks so bad compared to the one in London
Yup.
The real Tower Bridge has four pylons as it is a suspension bridge, a bascule bridge, and a suspension bridge; the end parts not completing the full suspension. The replica has end parts meeting with the bridge and going no further and the central parts l daresay not having a bascule (lift mechanism.). It has two pylons but four towers.
Tha Bridge is so fake.
It looks like a cheap plastic model.
It looks Disneyland style
In the words of Jeremy Clarkson:
"It looks like somebody's described it over the telephone or sent a really blurry fax."
2:10 that was not copy, that was parody
me: Mom can we see a opera
Mom: we have opera at home
opera at home : 2:10
Lol......hahahahaha.....they even copycat their own great wall.......hahahahahah
That funniest thing I ever hear
i've peed myself
Why would you say lol and haha in the same scentence when they mean the same doe...
If its their own, why would you say its a copy?
@@patrickveterlogh4212 Would you submit your essay for another assignment?
an entire town in Austria - Hallstadt - has been replicated in china
www.theb1m.com/video/360-tour-hallstatt-replica-in-china
Sans Alps.
Why d,ont they twin the towns?
I have been to the Chinese Hallstadt. It still felt like I was in tropical South China 🤔
They do the same thing with American military technology.
Yes everything is copy ..
And any other technology.
@@MichalKaczorowski 5g, foldable phones, sd cores, all originally produced in china
the only copied thing from the american military is the j20
@@chikiladayanta1449 Like?
*Builds Statue of Liberty in a prison camp
*Builds Guantanamo Bay detention camp in a prison camp
I just can’t stop laughing at the attempt of the opera house, worst out of all 😂😂😂
😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣💀
"Mom, can we travel and see the world?"
"We have the world at home"
*World at home:*
Like all the rest of China’s infringing products: they resemble, but come nowhere close to replicating, the beauty of the original.
Sometimes i wonder what would have happened if we never engaged china's economy all those years ago. We benefited significantly but also created a monster.
A powerful nation doesn't build for the sole purpose of showing power, they build out of necessity and their power is obvious
or we chinese just build for fun.
@@anaishakumar341 2:07 doesn't seem fun
Chinese have a great culture and history, they are one of the world's oldest civilization, I don't understand why they copy western architecture. They should embrace and be proud of their culture.
When the Chinese Communist Party started the so called "cultural revolution" in 1966. The CCP destroyed the original ancient chinese temples, other cultural heritage and traditions declaring those old cultures and traditions are what made china a backward nation. The REAL chinese culture that the world knows does not exist in mainland china today. Authentic chinese culture has survived in Taiwan and Hong Kong. But Chinese communist government hates both Taiwan and Hong Kong.
My thoughts exactly dude. They have no need to copy anyone, they have their own distinctiveness and could innovate design like the guys in the gulf countries are doing. But nooooo, somehow ripping off existing architecture that looks even worse is somehow a display of power *facepalm*
Lol you didn't understand their communist government had destroyed ancient Chinese culture
In the name of fake modernization
Physalia Physalis This is partially innocent, the CCP started the cultural revolution to get rid of some horrible cultural practices going on at the time and students took it wayyyy to far. They CCP didn’t brother to stop the students however until they’re own power was being threatened
Ayush Parasar Modernization gets good reputation , why do you think Japan and Korea. Skyscrapers and modern buildings. Although they have preserved elements of there traditional architecture thankfully. Westerns see traditional buildings and scoff at them sadly, it’s all about glass towers. So that’s why many devolving countries ditch they’re traditional styles to appease capital.
Rest of the world: Copyright
Chinese: Copy-right-away
According to China "Copyright" means their right to copy anything they want
"architecture can't be cringy"
cringy architecture:
Oh dear,.... have another glass of wine.
China don't understand copy wright infringement
Jan v Coppenhagen You're confusing copyright protection (for creative works like photos, art, litterature, music) with patent protection (for inventions). Both expire, but patents expire much sooner (about 20 years) than copyright (in many cases, life of the author plus 70 years or, for corporate works, 95 years).
Not legally, no. Copyright is distinct law from patent. Oxford dictionary is not an authority on legal matters.
And you don't understand the spelling of the word copyright.
I’m pretty sure it was a joke about Frank Lloyd Wright...
they interpret copyright as "the right to copy"
Chinese student : how many planets are there in our solar system.
Chinese teacher : there are 8 planets.
Mercury
Venus
China
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
Uranus
.
🤣😂
There must be something in the Chinese psyche to cause this phenomenon. Maybe a total lack of originality?
Lol yeah.
They destroyed their own culture 50 odd years ago and are now stuck with the disneyfied version of chinese culture or imitating other cultures
@@BC-ef8vu That culture and all intellectual went to Taiwan. The ones ruling China are lower class people generally farmers( not a bad job) without any taste and vision.
They have no creativity because they are taught that to be part of society is to conform to the masses. Individual thought is frowned upon.
@@windsorSJ ah, thats why the chinese are steryotyped to force their children to be doctors and respect the elders. i see.
"We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."
7 of 9 will lead to ur reorientation as a less destructive infector. Lol nice re recall.
Replicating the great wall of China is the dumbest thing I've ever heard😂😂😂
Exactly like they already have a Great Wall of China and they need to replicate their own famous landmark
Yes, it's like Las Vegas in the USA
I guess the village wants to attract tourists and wants to get media attention
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
- Oscar Wilde
""Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
- Oscar Wilde"
Copying aside.. the fact that they have actually built such complex replicas says a lot about their Engineering and organizational capabilities. I am not surprised the Chinese are now doing large, complex infrastructure projects in Africa and elsewhere.
They cant innovate ? They always imitate
THE EXPERT on the contrary，they built the same constructions because they highly appreciate those wonders！ in order to see those wonders in their own land they imitated ones. some neurotic and sensitive bastards once see China‘s stuff and intuitively relate those stuff to something bad. what a pathetic fool！
中国不搞网禁的话，你早被喷死了兄弟，哪还有你撒野的份啊？ 老兄，说话要过脑的，可别像条狗一样见到什么第一反应就是汪汪汪。 真是蜀犬吠日啊
@@skey8809 well, I like apple products a lot. Should I start selling their products with a different name?
postmodern liberali是誰在汪汪汪啊⋯⋯😂 不要把你們自己說得那麼好聽
syerum cock, 台湾不是中国，请问外国人不要在中国视频里指手画脚！taiwan is not china, foreigners forbidden to bark. crawl back to taiwan !
Engineer: I work so hard to do this
China: *copies*
Copies*
@@aditsood9369 dont be wimpy about details
Abhinav Thakur, you must be a Chinese Engineer.
It's nice to finally meet the guy behind all these great videos! Thank you!
Cheers from France!
I'm sorry, but THAT was REALLY supposed to be the Sydney opera house?
Can they not design anything themselves????????
健海李 Can you stop being so nationalistic?
The only thing they can come up with is machines to produce fake phones and clothing
Bring back imperial Japan, spread Japanese nationalism
Search for the WFC complex in Shanghai
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Well, nothings wrong till the world goes up in flames over morons like him being nationalistic.
His mouth movement looks painful when he talks. It looks so forced to me.
@Echo Drive British orthodontestry at is finest...
A lot of the time in video the sound of a person talking and the video of them 'talking' is done separetely so the quality of each is better. so the audio here doesn't match with the video very well.
Atrophied muscles in the face, neck, tongue and throat can affect the amount of air you naturally breath in, which can cause speaking and breathing difficulties, which require you to position your head and mouth specifically so you still sound like yourself. Happens to everyone as they age. Happens faster to people who habitually chew, smile and exhale using only one side of their mouth. They're all connected to something else, and when one thing slacks, so does its neighbour.
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Las Vegas: hold my beer!
Open challenge , try to replicate south India's ancient temples
No one can 😝
impossible
no temple is a replicate so its impossible to copy.
@@ramennoodles8546 what are you saying???
@@walnut9472 no other temple is a duplicate of the other. every single temple is unique. so its almost impossible to even try to replicate it.
World: develops and creates stunning architecture
China: its free real estate
Me: Mom, can we have Eiffel Tower?
Mom: No, we have Eiffel Tower at home.
Eiffel Tower at home: 3:31
When you lack imagination..
To be fair, the United States has many more copycat buildings and structures than the Chinese. Even if you take Los Vegas out, there's more copycats in the USA than this video has.
. this is actually hilarious they decided to remake the London Bridge I wonder if they are aware of the religious Aesthetics of that time period? 😂😂😂😂😂
It's tower bridge not London bridge
I don't think are, I mean they built a church! Although, religion isn't a building, I've seen with my own two eyes a church, in London, being used as a night club!
Disrespectful? Yes, but it happens.
Tower bridge*
I guess you can say those versions are, made in China.
*kill me pls, stop the suffering*
@fane babanu European-Americans are European by culture and heritage. The Chinese aren't.
So what? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
These landmarks can be used for shooting movies. The cost will be way low.
Here in Indonesia, we have similar development. Some developers try to sell houses and apartments by building likeness of major European and American cities on their projects. Even copying some of the landmarks.
Interesting that’s it’s happening there too. Do you have a link to a image/example at all?
The B1M not much good pictures on internet, but here is one www.flickr.com/photos/eric_arianto/3597163896/in/photostream It's housing complex with integrated theme park. You can google "Kota Wisata Cibubur" for more info.
The B1M Another example, "Monumen Simpang Lima Gumul" aka Arc De Triomphe in Kediri.
@@TheB1M Im Indonesian and yes, we also love to copying european houses design, and people here are feel "cool" when everything around them are so "europeanistic" (fashion, houses, etc), and even some celebrities here are so proud if they married with uropean/american guy..lol
Jeez.. Asians. Calm down.
I guess copying these architectural wonders could be a way for China to keep their people in staying in their country rather travelling abroad and ruining some pristine and sacred tourist attractions. There have been lots of videos showing some Chinese tourists behaving badly in public. One video shows how a Chinese Man ruined an old relic by vandalising it with his name. I guess it would ve better for them to copycat those tourist attractions so that the original pieces would be preserved and be saced from the hands of some ill mannered Chinese tourists.
dont refer wicked tourists to Chinese ok？ people‘s demeanour in every country is also various！ u only saw many video highlighted Chinese lousy tourists and then intuitively viewed Chinese people as relic destroyer. man i feel sorry for ur ignorance and shorteye view
这群无学无术的井底之蛙，看见中国怎么怎么就自然的联系到西媒所渲染的妖魔化的中国。就开始神经质了，就开始炸毛了，玻璃心破碎了。就不分青红皂白的要摸黑一下中国来满足一下那点可悲的虚荣心了。呵呵 就这点眼界还评论中国？ 哎 兄弟 知道中国为何能和西方抗衡了吧？ 因为西方人脑子天生缺斤少两啊
Yes. Thats the case.
And also please check the great wall. On the wall full of English touristes SIGNATURES and also full of urine smelling. Please re evaluate yourself when juding others. Its a big shame.
They rebuilt everything they deemed worthy and beautiful, while most others just talk.
Others create new things.
@@jmitterii2 Where are the new things? Or is it just a matter of 'if it's not 'new', might as well don't do anything? Talk is cheap.
except for the Opera house that looks like cancer
@@mottscottison6943 Lol the only reason they build it is to give the Chinese a reason to stay and not to go visit the real place and get away from the Chinese communist propaganda
@@tiagomonteiro130 jokes on you. China has about 130 million people travel out of China each year, and the second closests, US only has about 90million per year, despite being 5 times richer per capita. So tell me again who is trapped under a well?
2:08 from where does this look like Sydney's opera house
Why can't they just open their eyes
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 i feel horrible for laughing at this
This statement is deep 😂😂
China literally have my dream LEGO sets
LGAO sets
Bruh I imagine them in about 2000 years they will claim that these design they copied came from them and argue if you don't believe
wonder how long the buildings will last
Its stupid. They think they show power by doing these replicas? LOL
Its a shame u got no brain and please check the history and find the west histories back in time around 15-18th centries. Almost royal families COPY chinese and indian cultures. The porcelain and the way of dressing. How is that? when the power dominates, replication happens. Check the japanese and korean, They copy China for thousand of years. Why dont u judge about that.
@@danielsimon8303 If porcelain is the only point you can forward then it shows your lack of intelligence. Porcelain wasn't popularized unitl 18th century anyways and had hardly a large impact on western culture. When the brits had porcelain manufactured they inscribed insignias resembling their own royal house, just because it was made out of porcelain does not make it chinese you brainlet.
It's like saying 70% of european cannons during the 1700's were swedish because they were made of swedish copper.
Its not showing power ok? ! It's only about entertainment or business-drive orientation or some local municipality stupidity. The ordinary people dont give a shit about politics and also they have no access to outside due to the nation internet firewall. With higher tax rate, high tuition fee and high of everything, they already suffer too much. So if you blame the government, I don't give a shit, but if you insult the citizens out there, I simply don't feel it fair.
@@Busketroll I point it out just from the cultural aspective and we talk about the impact to specific area, not necessarily for the whole , by your logic, so we can see that, the video posted here I never heard of back in China, it's the first time and even I feel ridiculous. But you comment the whole china based on the video clip, don't you think its too much judgmental? Before we comment something on social media, getting through with it first and then write your shit is more acceptable and neutral. We should think critically and fair, dont u think?
which bothers to show power? we just make fun of these buildings.
This country really has a problem...
And the replicas are horrible.
When you claim They are not them park and people live in those building, all examples you provided are clearly for tourist attraction.
Bizare, considering that China has literally thousands of years of its own architectural history.
This is a joke right!!! Everyone copy Las Vegas
Thunder Snake and los Vegas has pyramid from Egypt and that India building where trump has business with..m
Lil Ladiboi From Bangkok that’s obviously because Egypt copied Las Vegas
Thunder Snake time to US to invade Egypt.
Yeah because we all knoe America is known for its historical architecture. Get the F outta here you bafoon.
Thunder Snake
Las Vegas is unique. It is and always has been a gimmick towm, and its hotels and attractions are gimmicky and fantastical like a theam park or a putt putt golf course. What China does is copy and build world icons and treat it like common architecture in their cities, which is very bizarre.
ha im currently living in Suzhou, the old city is lovely but the sheer scale of urban development has sucked all the authenticity out of the surrounding former countryside to the point that you could conceivably be anywhere in the west, Orlando, Brisbane who knows the bridge is quite the laugh though.
And its a fucking dictator
B1M, could you please show the replicas in other countries as well?
literally an office copying machine: hey wait, ive seen this one before
china: wdym? this is new, chinese architecture! "statue of liberty" has great chinese history!
Guangdong has a copy of Hallstatt village (Austria). The real one is infinite more beautiful because the mountains.
Only mention Austria? They litteraly have corrupted every country with their filthy satanic hands..!
-When you visit “It’s a Small World” at Disneyland once.
I couldn't help it. I just laughed when I saw the Sydney Opera House replica😂
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”- Oscar Wilde
Hua-Shi
Prakhar Tiwari why does he say who-axy?
Because he's not been to China perhaps.
Thank you. I took too many Chinese classes to listen to his pronunciation comfortably.
Good video! But I would prefer if this channel was more than just top 10 videos. I encourage you to not begin making list videos.
Thanks! Might be worth looking at our back catalogue - 90% non-Top 10 videos: th-cam.com/users/TheB1MLtdvideos
Absolutely! I don't mean to sound like a know-it-all-guy. And of course you should make top 10 videos if it fits the subject and the audience likes it. Good luck next time!
deeingalaplike Oh, I don't mean to sound patronising. I'm sorry!
Toney people movies
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Kids: can we travel?
American dad: no we got the world replica at Vegas
Well, americans have Las Vegas, a city with a replica of absolutely everything, idk why y'all act so surprised.
1 city
That’s on a much smaller scale and it’s built as an attraction/entertainment.
That’s only _one_ city