Beijing 2008...Chicago 1893...

[rogerluli]

When I first saw this I thought... But it really does make sense and brings up some of the same themes that are often mentioned here about how China is developing like America did...So without further ado here it is and pretty short even...How the 2008 Beijing Olympics are like the 1893 Chicago World's Fair... B)

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...0,2460826.story

[rogerluli]

When I first saw this I thought... But it really does make sense and brings up some of the same themes that are often mentioned here about how China is developing like America did...So without further ado here it is and pretty short even...How the 2008 Beijing Olympics are like the 1893 Chicago World's Fair...

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...0,2460826.story

 

It occurs to me... B) that some of our members may not have had the cultural adavantage of being from the Windy City and therefor do not know much about the COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION... But it was a very big deal celebrating the 400th anniversary of Columbus' "discovery" of America...and Chicago beat out New York, Washington and St. Louis for the honor of hosting the fair... Some of the major buildings still stand today on Chicago's lakefront... B)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_C...bian_Exposition

[jim_julian]

An interesting parallel

[IllinoisDave]

Very interesting notion Rog. I hope people don't read into it any implication implying that China is somehow backwards because of the comparison to 19th-century Chicago. For those times, the World's Fair was considered very modern and innovative. So the comparison is actually very flattering and IMHO, accurate.

[Guest WenDylan]

Maybe we should change venue, just for kicks. How about Honolulu 2016? B)

[Sebastian]

Maybe we should change venue, just for kicks. How about Honolulu 2016?

 

Maybe better to do winter games there? Can import Chinese Snow then.