Similarities and differences between approaches to plagiarism in the U.S. and in my country

What if someone drink liquid, which appears yellow, by considering it as an orange juice? Though s/he might be confused on how it looks like but can’t be confused after drinking it to conclude whether it is an orange juice or not. I believe this resembles plagiarism. By copying the idea of someone cannot feature us enough to present the findings on specific contents. In fact, it directly harms the owner who spends a lot of time for the findings or the result. Plagiarism is the worldwide approach. The only difference is how the government of specific country is standing against plagiarism. In my point of view, this is the only factor that shows the different rates of plagiarism in different countries.

The approaches of plagiarism in Nepal is almost like that in U.S. People stole other’s ideas from articles or books or internet and tries to reflect it as their own in different words or in different structures. But the point to be noted is how much does the government is paying attention to plagiarism. Just making the policies cannot lead the country to stop plagiarism. There must be the implementation of the policies. The only difference between U.S. and Nepal in case of plagiarism is Nepal lacks the implementation of written policies against plagiarism.

In addition to the laziness of people, lack of scientific approaches to support their research also encourages people for plagiarism in context of Nepal. In lack of equipped labs and scientific method experiments in higher education, people feel easy to copy entire methodology as well as conclusion to fulfill their educational priority. That’s why plagiarism seems to be increasing yearly as the number of students increasing for higher studies.

Although plagiarism seems to be increasing, the government is not showing attention to the demerits of it. Not only in the sector of science but also in other educational and media sectors, plagiarism is being easy for many people to present themselves illegally by copying other ideas for their own satisfaction and wants. But the real owner seems to be paralyzed in front of the people. This creates difficult situation for the real owner to fulfill his/her basic needs too instead of getting honor for his/her work.

In conclusion, if Nepal became able to implement the policies strictly to prevent plagiarism as found in U.S., the owner of the idea would not be sale in the crowd of cheaters.