Honor and merit are completely alien concept to all non whites.
Is Cheating Part Of Chinese Culture?
Jason Bell
Zachary Hughes
The cultural thing about China compared to Europe does exist.
And I see it as an advantage of the Chinese culture.
Whereas European culture divides people into masters, who actually do cheat, and good little sheep who obey the law, Chinese see things as they are. If the Laws allow for someone to be bypassed, you should strive to bypass them too for your advantage, because if you don't you will simply be taken advantage of by other people.
It creates both more cutthroat and "redpilled" society, which is a good thing for Capitalism specifically.
Carson Miller
Well, no wonder you autists will be dead in 1 generation.
William Baker
Nah, honour is a Euro thing.
Literally the culture which is known for establishing one of the first meritocratic nations.
Austin Torres
The test obsession is a consequence of having a so-called "meritocracy" under capitalism.
Colton White
Bruh I addressed this in my post. Group projects are shitty because of the context. It's a game of chicken over who's willing to do the least work instead of any measure of overall quality. I'll add here that the idea of a maximal grading system plays into it as well. You get x out of y points so your success and failure is bounded. If you had a system that scaled with input then there's a reason for everyone to put in effort because the choice is no longer between "do the work or let someone else do it" but "add work to the product and increase everyone's marks or don't". In the latter case there's no reason to slack off based on the context of the project.
Asher Young
Yep. The concepts of honor and merit are mutually exclusive. If you are motivated by utility, you in no way can follow any sort of rigid and strict conservative behavioural code that forces you into making choices without thinking at all, let alone evaluating their utility.
Ian Sanders
honor and merit are completely foreign concepts to capitalist fucks
Lucas Morales
Cheating is actually existing socialism.
Seriously, where do Marx wrote that thou shall not cheat? Nowhere.
Matthew Rogers
Cheating in China is a legacy of the Imperial Examination system. The tl;dr is that in imperial China, if you wanted a top job (ie. a bureaucrat) you had to study for and attend what was basically a giant civics and history exam that focused exclusively on the rote memorization and reproduction of classical Confucian writings. These exams were grueling and extremely competitive even thousands of years ago and cheating was as rampant then as it is now. The "cheating is part of the test" attitude goes back literally thousands of years in China and has shaped their culture considerably.
When interacting with a Chinese on a purely interpersonal level they're often perfectly decent people but when it comes to any professional or pseudo-professional relationship they will cut your throat without a shred of remorse or hesitation and then when you ask "why?" they will shrug and reply "I don't know why you didn't".