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Comment on Anger in Albania by Nana Yaw

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Though the reviewer/author is right in pointing out the self-plagiarism, the presentation is not entirely true. First, the 2011 paper was an empirical paper whiles the 2013 paper was a review paper. However, the first author was the same for both papers.

In respect of the complaints about the standard of English used, I believe the reviewer forgot that for most people outside the UK, USA, Australia, and New Zealand, English is a second language and that level of proficiency won’t be the same. To use language argument is to be engaged in what is already known among many scholars from developing nations as academic imperialism or social science imperialism, that everything must become like those in the West to be acceptable or worthwhile. This is important as globalization is nothing more than projecting one local culture to the world stage (Yankah, 2012). Openness to diversity is key here. Many academic and publishing traditions are evolving and will evolve to revolutionize the academe.

Besides, your efforts have produced effect to the extent that authors whose papers are accepted are asked to declare that their work does not constitute any form of plagiarism.


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