[Dustie]

i think it's happening everywhere recently, that ppl try to copy from what's often called "american style". it's just that weird way today, that everything what is american, is everywhere. no other thing of other origin is as widely spread and popular simalteniously as american things...

probably Westerners consider everything that sees the daylight in "their world" as original and "Western made", not bothering to go deeper and see where the thing truly came from.
when they approach something very similar to what they have heard already, they go "no way, it must be a rip-off, cuz i've heard it before, here".

it's kinda like with "Harry Potter" now: there were dozens of books like Rowlings earlier, but somehow her story hit the big time. no matter when were other books "about young magicians" released - earlier or later - they will now be called "fallowers" or even "rip-off's".
a thing that comes first usually gets the "original" status, despite it's true story. other things only "follow"...