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Besides this not being true. Can we please try to be a little political correct? Imagine someone writing "Crime is pretty entrenched in Black American culture"
by chvid 11y ago
Besides this not being true. Can we please try to be a little political correct? Imagine someone writing "Crime is pretty entrenched in Black American culture" or "The feeling of superiority is entrenched in Jewish culture" - that would not be so nice, right?
- lallysingh 11y agoSeriously.
- toomim 11y agoIt's better to be true than politically correct.
- chvid 11y agoBut it is worse to be politically incorrect and false - which is the case here.
- jerf 11y agoI can't help but feel that your evidence that it is false is that it is politically incorrect. Prove me wrong? (Bear in mind that one can not have both "There's a lot of diversity in the world, and that's a good thing, and we should seek more diversity" and "All cultures are precisely the same". Pick at most one.)
- d9h549f34w6 11y agoCan you provide some support for your assertion that this is false -- that there are no cultural differences between Chinese cultures and Western cultures in terms of attitudes of what is "right" in terms of cheating, plagiarism, or copycat/shanzhai goods? Note that this is not just a matter of whether a culture has cheaters or not, but to what degree it is tolerated in either practice or in the stated beliefs of a culture. Culture is not just cuisine and costumes -- it is also how one interacts with the world and others in one's society. There's a certain arrogance in assuming that all people in the world must obviously approach things in the same way that you do.
- crimsonalucard 11y agoBeing chinese myself I would have to say he's more right than wrong. I would even go so far to say that our tendency cheat could have genetic origins as well. It's anecdotal, but I'm born and raised in the United States, I'm culturally influenced by american culture, yet I totally identify with and understand this propensity among the Chinese to cheat. As a result, I think it's deeper than just culture.
- kelukelugames 11y agoAfter you suggested that Chinese genetics as a reason for cheating, I don't think any of us should take your comments seriously.
- crimsonalucard 11y agoWhy is this such a foreign concept? If genetics influences physical features, why doesn't it influence behavior? Do you choose to not take my comment seriously due to logic or politics?