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The Importance of Duplet Texture in China
In pre-modern China, imperial rulers used copycat buildings as a way of showing off their power. The White House is generally credited as being the most copied building in China. North America was ruled by Europeans, so it makes sense that we would have more European-style architecture lying around. But we still continue to build these European homages today.
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