I will have to put more thought into this, but my initial impression is that perhaps other cultures are not borrowing from the West as much as the West is imposing its culture upon them. I speculate that through such imposition, they have (voluntarily or involuntarily) gained sufficient exposure to and knowledge of certain aspects of Western culture that, in some sense, those aspects of Western culture belong as much to them as to the West. As such, they have as much freedom to express the material as anyone else does. I think this what happens more often.
However, I guess this could go both ways. If it is borrowing more than imposition, then I think the same rules should apply to everyone; no one should be disrespected.
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