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http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/why-do-the-chinese-copy-so-much/?_r=0
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery — but it can be creepy too, as the residents of Hallstatt, a picturesque Austrian town, discovered last year when a Chinese property developer built a copy of their home in southern China.
As news spread in Austria and around the world that a copy of the medieval town's market square, a church and other important buildings had been erected in Boluo, Guangdong province (part of a bigger development designed to attract wealthy buyers to expensive villas built by Minmetals Land), a debate began in media and in private conversations: Was it OK for the Chinese to do this? And why do they copy so much, anyway?