![]() While the Westerner screamed, “Corruption!”, the Chinese scratched his head and wondered what his counterpart was on about. ![]() Confucianism did, after all, emphasize one’s duty to one’s own family as the supreme social good. Yet a more traditionalist society - of the kind which prioritizes the family above other, less organic social groupings - might regard such behavior as perfectly normal and morally justified.Ĭount turn-of-the-twentieth-century China among this group. Most post-Enlightenment Western societies believe such blatant nepotism to be inefficient, unethical, and profoundly destructive of institutional morale. ![]() Corruption, like so many things in life, is in the eye of the beholder.Ĭonsider, for example, the timeless scenario of the bureaucratic functionary who gives his nephew a promotion instead of a more qualified candidate. ![]()
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