While it's not great, I understand the decision making. If your placing 201 in a class of 3,000 for your villages computer class and only the top 10 will get to go to the capital for a chance to compete for a HB-1 you realistically have 0 chance. It's not that your dumb, it's just that your in the opposite of the dunning kruger effect. Your good enough enough to be able to survey the landscape and see how far you've gotten and correctly assess that it's all for 0.
But the moral (or lack theoreof) fibre of the cultures matter, your right. And that doesn't happen overnight.
I don't think the sheer numbers are the ultimate reason for the difference in values. Every American is basically faced with the same question of ratios vis-a-vis going to Harvard and yet cheating isn't normalized. The phenomenon might have more to do with the inadequate opportunities for a decently intelligent Indian and that itself is because they rely on central institutions to give them opportunities instead of creating them themselves.
The difference is the gulf between the top and average and the bottom.
In America the average is pretty damn good, a pretty big jump from the bottom, and not terribly below the top.
In India, the bottom is living in shit. The middle is living in only the shit of people know, the above average is having a shit free room of your shit house, and the very top is average for Americans.
While it's not great, I understand the decision making. If your placing 201 in a class of 3,000 for your villages computer class and only the top 10 will get to go to the capital for a chance to compete for a HB-1 you realistically have 0 chance. It's not that your dumb, it's just that your in the opposite of the dunning kruger effect. Your good enough enough to be able to survey the landscape and see how far you've gotten and correctly assess that it's all for 0. But the moral (or lack theoreof) fibre of the cultures matter, your right. And that doesn't happen overnight.
I don't think the sheer numbers are the ultimate reason for the difference in values. Every American is basically faced with the same question of ratios vis-a-vis going to Harvard and yet cheating isn't normalized. The phenomenon might have more to do with the inadequate opportunities for a decently intelligent Indian and that itself is because they rely on central institutions to give them opportunities instead of creating them themselves.
The difference is the gulf between the top and average and the bottom.
In America the average is pretty damn good, a pretty big jump from the bottom, and not terribly below the top.
In India, the bottom is living in shit. The middle is living in only the shit of people know, the above average is having a shit free room of your shit house, and the very top is average for Americans.
Yeah you're going to cheat.