New Age Artists

Chapter 402: The Purpose of Copycat Popularity, the Origin of Little Pink (33)

For several days, Shen Santong filmed at Wuhan Railway Station.

Highlight the lively but not noisy tone.

Maybe it is noisy in reality, but movies have their own camera language, and they want to capture representative elements.

Not only that, Shen Santong also decorated the carriages and stations with many Spring Festival elements.

The red lanterns hanging in the station, the New Year's goods, spring couplets, and Chinese knots carried by the passengers, the rabbit pendants on the bags, and the details in the carriages.

Use small but warm items to create a festive atmosphere.

Movies targeting the Spring Festival period should make the audience feel comfortable and not feel annoyed when watching them.

3 month 3 day.

Li Xiaolu came over to make a guest appearance: "You finally remembered me."

Shen Santong said: "Come on, I'm waiting for you."

Shen Santong looked at Li Xiaolu's performance and nodded secretly, his acting skills were indeed very good.

Basically the same as the original.

Guangtou Xu was on the phone when a burly man came over and opened his coat, revealing various mobile phones inside.

The girl played by Li Xiaolu said: "Boss, your mobile phone is very fashionable. How much did you buy it for? Do you want to exchange it for a new one or buy another one?"

The "zoo" that Li Chenggong complained about was also retained, which is in line with his personality.

Just removed the line "It's a copycat, right?"

The word "shanzhai" comes from Cantonese and means "small, small-scale" or even a bit like "underground factory".

This word was not a good word when first used by some media and public intellectuals.

A derogatory term used to mock domestic mobile phones and industrial products for copying other countries.

As the masses joined in, the meaning was quickly diluted and became imitative, rapid and popular.

Shanzhai culture is deeply marked by innovation and product wisdom.

It has changed from a derogatory word to a funny neutral word with entertaining attributes.

Many words have similar experiences, such as "little pinks".

At first, it was a stigmatizing word created by some people, but as the public joined in, the original stigmatizing meaning was diluted.

In Shen Santong's opinion, the derogatory meaning of "shanzhai" is, at the very least, to suppress the prices of Dongda's industrial products, and at the most, to downplay Dongda's voice in the division of labor in the international industrial chain and its bargaining power for products.

It's not that Shen Santong is crazy, nor is it his conspiracy theory.

The richer the meaning of a word, the more obvious the characteristics it contains.

The derogatory usage of “little pinks” is obviously not something that was created by normal Chinese people.

red.

Whether it is folk customs or serious occasions, it is a good color and a very festive color.

Pink.

In addition to nouns representing colors, as an extended symbol, it does not have a derogatory meaning.

Women look cute in pink, but men look a bit stuffy in pink.

The habitual usage has no derogatory meaning.

Well, the problem is coming.

Where has the color red been derogatorily and stigmatized?

The characteristics are too distinct, and it is easy to identify the group that uses the derogatory term "little pinks".

On the Wandao side, there are also some self-hatred and colonial people from Hong Kong Island and the mainland.

One hundred percent this group.

Just like being able to determine where a person is from by the accent they speak.

These distinctive words are themselves "dialects" with a strong "accent".

Normal Chinese people will not use the term "little pinks" in a derogatory sense.

Normal people would not criticize or even insult their parents in public.

Even if mom and dad did something wrong, they would not do it publicly.

It's not a question of filial piety, but a matter of interest.

Denying your parents in public is equivalent to denying yourself. It seems to be belittling your parents, but in fact it is also belittling yourself.

Because there is a transmission issue between children and parents, parents are the source of bloodline.

Normal people would not insult their own country in front of foreigners.

It’s not because of any stance or concept, it’s still self-interest.

To openly deny one's country is to deny oneself.

Only some colonists have abnormal brain circuits and like to talk about the bad things of their own country in front of foreigners, expressing how lucky they are to escape and how grateful they are to come to a civilized world.

In these minds, he said such words as a way of fitting in and a token of his allegiance.

I even met Chinese people and international students from the University of Tokyo at the party.

The Dongda people communicated with them in Chinese, but these people deliberately did not speak Chinese, especially in front of foreigners.

They think they are showing loyalty and breaking away from the past.

At a glance, I saw that the screens of these people’s mobile phones were all in Chinese, either simplified or traditional Chinese.

But do foreigners look up to these people? No.

When a normal person sees someone denying his country and where he came from, he will subconsciously look down on this person.

Maybe a polite nod and a smile.

But deep down, I am disdainful and look down on it.

To put it bluntly, if you deny your own country, there will be no way out and no physical protection.

To put it more bluntly, if the United States wants to force a scientist with nationality of the University of Tokyo to commit suicide, it needs to consider the reciprocal consequences.

Because behind these people, there is truly a great country.

This country happens to like to keep account books and has execution capabilities, so it does not need to perform for large-scale performances every two or four years.

On the contrary, for those loyal Chinese scientists who believe in "science without borders" and have already become naturalized citizens, it will be a heavy blow.

The most obvious contrast is between Rao Yi and his ex-wife.

One of them came back and became the president of a top-ranked college.

One was put into a mental hospital on the grounds of mental illness and became blind.

Not only did it shut down the lab and destroy the career, it also devastated the body and mind.

A Chinese-American scientist with tenure as a faculty member at the Center for Molecular Biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine was preparing to sue the school after being treated unfairly at the school. However, he was forcibly sent to a mental hospital by the school, during which time he became mentally ill and blinded.

For this kind of news, overseas media are very disciplined and do not report the details.

Domestic media are also very disciplined and do not report bad things about the United States.

Shen Santong was also in his previous life. He learned many details after seeing the relatives of Rao Yi’s ex-wife Wu Ying explaining the situation online.

Wu Ying is a scientific researcher who truly believes that "science has no borders."

During Michelle's husband's time, she returned to her country to set up a laboratory, but during her time, she followed the trend and cut off her relationship with the country.

I was able to sit at the same table with Caroline Kennedy at the White House dinner.

When we were being bullied, we realized that the United States does not care about rules, but only about strength.

If it is not cut, moisten it when it needs to be moistened, and life will be wonderful.

If they still have nationality, Todai can at least intervene, and even if they can't save them, they can retaliate in kind.

The transformed Meng captured the people of Jia Ma Da at that time.

Directly call Canada a dog of the United States.

He called the ambassador over, held a notebook, and started scolding him sentence by sentence.

Whenever someone talks back, they will go back to the beginning and start scolding from the beginning. It is almost a replica of the scene in the Korean movie.

If you don't have a nationality, you can only respect the fate of others.

When you are abroad, denying your motherland and your own culture will harm your own interests.

At the very least, you will be looked down upon by others, and at worst, it will endanger your own existence.

"Shanzhai" also has a very rich meaning.

As the world's factory, Todai provides industrial products to the whole world.

As a family factory, of course we hope that the products we sell can be priced higher.

Calling your own industry imitation or knockoff is to devalue the fruits of your labor.

This results in industrial products not being able to be sold at a high price. Although China provides most of the industries, it does not have the pricing power.

Take lighters for example. When Dongda University was unable to produce them, one could be sold for dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of yuan.

Dongda can produce it, just one or a few pieces.

This price is understandable for domestic circulation, and it cannot be sold at this price outside.

This devaluation is detrimental to most people living in the country.

Even if a normal person complains about product quality problems, they will not simply dismiss the entire industrial product.

Only buyers will try to lower the price, saying that your goods are worthless.

Imitation is criminalized and stigmatized, without mentioning that other industrial countries have a history of imitation.

Imitation = plagiarism = counterfeiting and shoddy goods = Dongda industrial products.

Tying these together is speaking for outside buyers.

Shen Santong will not help spread the word "shanzhai", let alone use "shanzhai" to describe domestic industrial products.

I hope you won’t accuse me of being crazy or advocating conspiracy theories. I am just giving my own observations and analysis.

Would normal people use the term "little pink" in a derogatory sense?
In fact, after this word was diluted by the public, its original purpose of belittling patriots has failed.

Later, some people added other meanings such as mindless patriotism and populism to it, trying to continue to derogatoryize it, but unfortunately they were unsuccessful.

The Little Pinks were created to replace the Angry Youth and the Wumao, because the term Wumao has been diluted as the public joins in. The self-employed Wumao, the Wumao with their own food, make the term Wumao unsuitable for some people to use. They created a replacement.

Counterfeiting, or stigmatizing counterfeit products, is also a way to continuously suppress pricing power.

Not only industrial products, we are the world's largest buyer of resources. Logically, we are Party A, but for a long time, we have not had the right to set prices.

That is to say, it is better now.

I am just giving my own understanding.

I have to send gifts for the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I may have to take a leave. I can only try to write.

I can’t write about 512. This is a national disaster and it is not appropriate to write about it.

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(End of this chapter)