Superstars
• copycat movies are another profit-driven copycat phenomenon • These movies usually have low budgets, yet achieve commercial success by parodying, making fun of or borrowing elements from high-end Hollywood blockbuster movies.
Daily products
Daily products
One question that people have always wondered about these shows is, how many of these people actually fall in love? However, do the relationships last? Well, these kinds of relationships can and do work out-sometimes. However, more often than not they end very quickly.
Food
• Nowadays we can see copycatting in almost every aspect of our life: food, medicine, digital products, TV shows and even people.
Food
• The Manufacturers use a similar trademark or symbol to take advantage of a well-known popular brand to create confusion in the marketplace.
Other things
Customers may not be able to tell copycat goods from real goods at first sight, but when they find out that the manufacturer produces only inferior or shoddy products that cheat them out of their money, they may become so angry that they will never purchase another of their products.
• Before we decide to purchase a product, have a knowledge of it and check it carefully. This will help us not to be cheated to some degree.
3 Television Dating Game Shows
•4 The frequent reference to shanzhai cell phones on internet and in traditional media made people start labeling low-cost imitation cultural activities as shanzhai as well. One thing the activities have in common is that they all imitate high-end, popular yet authoritative events in which grass-roots power usually has no participating role.
Other things
• Copycat goods attract customers for their superior quality and attractive prices, but what about the real quality of these things, we have no idea before we use them.
1 The culture of copycat
-----山寨文化Biblioteka Interpretation
• The word 山寨(copycat) hails from Cantonese, and means “petty factory” or “underground factory”. The main features are the high capacity of copying, the fast speed and common people-orientation.
Food
• We almost can’t distinguish the tiny difference. And we are not sure if the things are healthy for people.
2
• There is nothing but he can’t do! As we can see in the above pictures people “try their best to invent” a lot of strange things in order to cheat other people of their money！
• You Are the One (非诚勿扰)
• With the development of the TV shows, it brings many common people opportunities to realize their star dreams. Unfortunately, a large number of persons will choose to imitate the superstars.
Revolutionize the World of Dating
• United Kingdom Take Me Out • Taken Out is an Australian television dating game show • The Bachelor
• Take Me Out(我
们约会吧)