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Mikeski
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You're kinder than me; I was going to say "unoriginal" is the Hipster's backup insult when "mainstream" doesn't work. And it may not be overall western/eastern, but there is a cultural personality split between the USA and Japan. The USA loves inventors and tolerates engineers. Japan is the reverse. (I say that as someone working in production engineering for 20-ish years. Time for belt-tightening around the office? The last thing to go is ... the patent award $$. You'd hate to keep the bonuses for actually getting a functioning product out the door...) Seriously... if you've had the "Best Selling", "Most-Dependable", "Highest-Rated" pickup truck for 5 or 10 years running, why in Haruhi's name does your TV ad describe this year's model as "The All-New..."? Because you can't sell engineering to an American. Strangely, the one place we do tolerate a lot of me-too-ism is... popular media. Idol/Voice/etc, CSI: everywhere, auto/bike-shop shows, pawn-shop/pickers/antiques shows... it's hard to find a popular, clone-less show that isn't on premium cable (unless it's too new to take the clones out of the vats yet...) |
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