It's not just their games and sports. It's a deep part of their culture. Just look at the cultivation genre. In it, a very common trope is just popping a pill for extra power. It is the same for real life for them. That's why they buy pills of powdered rhino penis or tinctures of bristlecone pine. Any method that they think will give them more power, they will use regardless the consequences.
Furthermore, culturally, they believe that if you can cheat at something and get away with it, you'd be stupid not to, and that the person/people you cheated deserved it because they didn't do it too.
It's not just their games and sports. It's a deep part of their culture. Just look at the cultivation genre. In it, a very common trope is just popping a pill for extra power. It is the same for real life for them. That's why they buy pills of powdered rhino penis or tinctures of bristlecone pine. Any method that they think will give them more power, they will use regardless the consequences.
Furthermore, culturally, they believe that if you can cheat at something and get away with it, you'd be stupid not to, and that the person/people you cheated deserved it because they didn't do it too.
The lowest trust society.
Inverted trust society. Assume everyone is cheating and lying all the time.
Heck, there was that highschool where the parents rioted because the teachers banned cheating.
Shitty newssite but you get the gist. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10132391/Riot-after-Chinese-teachers-try-to-stop-pupils-cheating.html