In both cases, it looks like ingrained behaviors require a long time before they are completely eradicated.
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:51:29AM -0400, Wojtek S wrote:
>
> [WS:} Very interesting. My own experience was the opposite. I lived in
> China for two years during the Cultural Revolution, and we expected many bad
> things from the Chinese, but cheating and criminal behavior in general was
> not one of them. There were very few Europeans in Shanghai at that time,
> and those were far better off than the locals. Yet I have not heard of a
> single instance of assault, scam, or theft. In one instance, my mom
> purchased an item from a nearby store and forgot to take the change. It was
> a trivial amount to us - although not so to the locals - and my mom did not
> even notice. She learned about only when a store clerk rung our door bell
> and returned the change.
>
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