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ea of netiquette has to do with attribution. Correct attribution of sources has always been important in academic writing. This is perhaps even truer for the Internet. Many sites offer online resources that can be downloaded and used as handouts. For example, Purdue University has an Online Writing Lab that offers guides to grammar and punctuation. Students and teachers are welcome to download these, but are asked to keep the headings on so that others know the handouts originated at Purdue's OWL. Whenever you borrow from or refer to online sources, be sure to acknowledge them. If you are unsure of the attribution policy of a site, check with your instructor or e-mail the site administrator.

It should be noted that different countries have regulated different rules of netiquette, and even virtual communities, such as BBS, newsgroup postings, blogs have their own rules and regulations to be an eligible member. Therefore, apart from some general rules, people are supposed to bear the specific netiquette in mind before getting involved in the Internet.

5. Problems and Challenges
5.1 Cultural globalization and cultural identity
People’s perception can be refined to be multicultural in virtual world, since they are exposed to various cultures besides their mother culture. With more frequent exposure to other cultures, people may have more access to the understanding of them. This definitely will benefit cross-cultural communication and globalization.
Since the Internet helps to build up a multicultural global community, some researchers are worrying about the possibility that all cultures would be converged to form one single culture, and people around the world would follow the same pattern and customs without cultural individuality. Globalization thus causes a degree of cultural uniformity as one of its consequences.
Indeed, the tendency of cultural uniformity does exist. For instance, English is most widely used in virtual world. Given that an Asian and an Arabic in their first encounter have to give up both their mother tongues and communicate in a third language (most probably English), they may unconsciously contribute to the dominance of English. The extensive use of English would more or less reinforce the subtle influence of English culture. Other cultures, in this sense, may retreat to a minor status as a means of information transmission.
On the other hand, however, cultural identity is viewed in optimistic light. Although conventional mass-communication allows people to disseminate their own cultural information to other nations, this is only a theoretical possibility. Cross-cultural communication is frequently restricted or limited by a number of reasons (political attitudes, racial prejudice, spatial and temporal problems), which may cause extra cultural misunderstanding. Example can be that some Americans keep regarding China as an uncivilized Far East land cut off from the outside world. Nevertheless, the Internet, a system controlled by protocols and rules made on a voluntary basis, is not created to subject to some individual's prejudice or stereotype. Cultures can be presented on network as it is on people's own selectivity rather than with judgmental or imposed views. There are numerous Chinese websites available for other peoples to perceive current China which is an open