Reza Ray Baluchi (born 1972) is an Iranian athlete and activist living in the United States. He has several times attempted to travel long distances off the East Coast of the United States in a self-propelled water craft rese...
I've done a bunch of racing in south/central America. The general theme is that of poor race organization (although that doesn't seem to be the case here) and "rules are more like guidelines". Most folks follow the mentality that cheating is part of the game and harmless to others. Everybody does it, so if you can get away with it, may as well go for it.
Sad part is that this carries over into government, crime, and everyday life. My friends/training partners from these parts of the world talk about corruption and crime as if it's the norm and expected behavior. They just laugh about it.
Hmm I guess 'Murica isn't much different... we just make corruption straight up legal.
This is the exact reason. To be a fair, there are a ton of dumb laws in America and the nature of unrestricted capitalism promotes corruption but to compare it to the corruption level in latin america is a joke. Just look at the world corruption index. They are comparable with north korea, china and some african countries
Ever worked construction? This is a cultural issue. Laziness and corner cutting are nothing new.
I'm an architect and I always tell my clients off the record that if possible to never hire white contractors. They're all meth heads and they will always try to rip you off. Of course, if you don't pay the extras they ask for they threaten you with a lawsuit.
Calling this a cultural thing is like calling the Las Vegas massacre a cultural thing.
You mean that time a deranged, old, white man fired upon a crowd with his fully auto converted gun , and a cowardly, "small town" country singer ran off stage without alerting anyone. Yeah, I'd call that a cultural thing.
The use of guns to solve a perceived problem is an American cultural thing.
ohh wow, I fully expected reading that there was a mistake or place where a corner could be cut and people were following the leader. NO!!! 1/3rd of the field was actually skipping large portions missing 5k check points trying to get credit for a marathon without doing one. amazing culture tidbit especially considering so many just got caught for it 5 years ago.
Calling this a cultural thing is like calling the Las Vegas massacre a cultural thing.
Please tell me you don't work in anything that involves logical thinking or analytical reasoning. How does it make sense to take one freak outlier and say that he is representative of an entire culture? On the other hand, when you're seeing over a third of a group, numbering into the thousands, engaging in some behavior, that's a good indication that the group condones that type of behavior.
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