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Post by gelaye on Oct 3, 2005 14:10:32 GMT -5
Eg. their cities, their electronics, transportation, EVERYTHING is more futuristic there than say western europe - example compare Tokyo with Paris or Shanghai with New York even!
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Oct 3, 2005 14:12:51 GMT -5
You have a real fascination with Mongoloids and Asian culture... therefore I suspect you to be a CLOSET ORIENTAL!
Ethiopian-European mix, my Hellenic buttock!
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Post by Wadaad on Oct 3, 2005 14:14:45 GMT -5
Eg. their cities, their electronics, transportation, EVERYTHING is more futuristic there than say western europe - example compare Tokyo with Paris or Shanghai with New York even! they realized in the 1960s that consumer electronics is quite profitable. |
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Post by MC anunnaki on Oct 3, 2005 14:24:36 GMT -5
They're all closet trekkies.
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Post by CooCooCachoo on Oct 3, 2005 23:06:37 GMT -5
I think they're curious about it, just like the way Europeans are curious about it.
Their cities are newer in construction, so often they embrace more futuristic architecture, as well as benefit from more modern infrastructure. (London's subways were among the first, and are definitely the most antiquated.)
Part of the reason Chinese people go ga-ga over technology because many of them grew up in poverty. My friend said his village had one tiny TV set in the late 70's, and that was it. Technology represents change, jobs, and possibility.
Japanese have more fun with technology. Mix it more thoroughly with culture. They've been championing it for a while. ...I think they like the identity it has given them. (No rational country thinks twice about Japan and WWII.)
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Post by MC anunnaki on Oct 3, 2005 23:29:30 GMT -5
Personally, I prefer the old parts of European cities to the new ones. I like technology but I don't think those futuristic cities look inviting.
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Post by mandate of heaven on Oct 4, 2005 0:04:51 GMT -5
They're all closet trekkies. True thats why i got my black iPod Nano, and my beefed up 98' Honda Accord |
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Post by zemelmete on Oct 4, 2005 1:13:37 GMT -5
Personally, I prefer the old parts of European cities to the new ones. I like technology but I don't think those futuristic cities look inviting. This is the reason why I wouldn't live outside Europe. I would miss medevial city and town centres... |
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Post by barre on Oct 4, 2005 4:02:08 GMT -5
Maybe it was the influence of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
and a chance to biuld something new , a future.
I love that stuff too, from a young age i was hooked on Manga
and now i drive an Acura
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Post by MC anunnaki on Oct 4, 2005 13:29:26 GMT -5
This is the reason why I wouldn't live outside Europe. I would miss medevial city and town centres... East Asia and the Near East has plenty of old cities as well, and old parts in more modern cities. I wouldn't mind living in such places. The old parts are more historical and have a certain atmosphere that are lost in the modern glass-and-concrete cities.  I'm actually a bit of a tech nerd myself, but there's something about living quarters, they shouldn't be overly modernized.  |
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Post by mandate of heaven on Oct 4, 2005 15:24:45 GMT -5
Some Asians cities have phenomenal city planning that preserves the old and the new constructions harmoniously. One good example would be Suzhou and Hangzhou China. One bad example would be Beijing with traditional Huortung stuck in between blocks of modern high raise building.
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Post by aroundtheworld on Oct 4, 2005 22:36:38 GMT -5
I agree with mandate of heaven. Very good explanation about the harmony of old and new in the planning.
it's all about balance. That's all my father ever talked about was balance and harmony.
I haven't been to Beijing since '97.
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