I found this paragraph in the Wikipedia page pretty amazing: > Roughly equivalent words in other languages include sociolismo in Cuba; blat in Russia; guanxi i

I found this paragraph in the Wikipedia page pretty amazing: > Roughly equivalent words in other languages include sociolismo in Cuba; blat in Russia; guanxi in Chinese and Vetternwirtschaft in German, protektzia in Israeli slang, un pituto in Chilean Spanish, In Brazilian-Portuguese it is referred to as "pistolão", "QI" (Quem Indica, or Who Indicates), or in the slang "peixada", "Pidi Padu" in Malayalam, "arka" or "destek" in Turkish.