Hi Juliana, while your concerns with respect to the contest is genuine. I completely disagree with your opinion on plagerizism. How can action one or few individuals be called as a cultural activity? I believe that everywhere the people feels that the credit should go to original creator/ actor / writer. The least anybody who is posting somebody else work should already give credit to person responsible.
It was a hypothesis, I obviously do not know values of each culture. I do know for a fact that in China people do not care about plagiarism, just look at all the knockoff products they produce. So cultural differences surely are a thing
Hi Juliank, Trust me I do understand your concern. But I am not justifying plagiarism here. I do not have knowledge of all the cultures. But, I do know that the knockoff products from China which you are referring to are part of business strategy and not culture.
In my understanding culture is social bhevaior which some community is proud of. And I know no community is proud of plagiarism.
I am not siding with plagiarism. In fact, I oppose it. But my concern here is the definition of the culture.
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