Whence cometh corruption? Why doesn't it exist in the Nordics?
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Fundamentally different cultural values. It's not just about valuing honesty as a virtue for its own sake, but also valuing loyalty to institutions as much as if not more than loyalty to one's personal family, clan, or tribe. In most of the world, the hierarchy of loyalty puts the state at best second in line behind family, but often much lower. So combine these two traits: honesty is not inherently valued, and being loyal to the state is less important than being loyal to your blood kin or even your friends. Then add in reasons for corruption that occur even in countries where loyalty to the state and honesty are esteemed, like financial insecurity or rampant criminality, which are arguably worse in those places which do not have loyalty and honesty in high regard. It's not hard to see why corruption is so prevalent in these places. Namely: they don't see it as "corruption" in the sense that westerners do. They see it as crafty people looking out for themselves and their own people by exploiting the incompetence of their superiors. And that is what it comes down to: in these places, failure to notice deceit is a personal failing, a lack of competence. If you cannot tell you have been cheated, it is your fault. The deceiver faces no real condemnation for his actions owing to the universally understood premise in these cultures that if one can get away with swindling an "outsider", then obviously you do it.
>>18429803corruption comes from lack of responsibility towards the general publicwhich comes from top down power structurewhich could be racial, cultural or even situational
>>18429825Basically, the nords are golden retrievers? If we use a dog analogy.
>>18429855the nords are a skyrim faction
>>18429803>Whence cometh corruption?Mostly opportunistic greed. You see an opportunity to gain, you think you can get away with it, you do it.You can't really remove the opportunity, so the focus should be on removing the expectation of getting away with it. >Why doesn't it exist in the Nordics?They are too stupid to notice it. These maps are based on PERCEPTION.How do you think nogs got there? Not even nordics are THAT bleeding hearted.
>>18429835Every power structure is top down, the iron law of oligarchy reigns supreme. You are retarded and probably brown if you think otherwise.The answer is the expression of it. In Eastern Europe a son of a prosecutor speeds in front of the police and nothing happens to him because of the systemic corruption. In Finland a nepobaby city council employee wastes taxpayer money(supposedly thousands of euros) to record an anti-rape macarena video and then claims that it going viral(out of mockery) means it succeeded, money well spent, is at worst an argument for libertarians to "show *da people* how dumb the government is when handling public money".This is the reason. Eastern Europeans, due to the genetic tendencies among the elites use power to flex, and that's your corruption, NW euros will instead just focus on funneling resources out of the system but keep quiet about it. Scandinavians in particular, due to quite extreme conformism(you will only understand the level of it if you're an outsider that lands into one of their countries and lives there for a while) will outright refuse to acknowledge the corruption too. There was a case of CPS in I believe Norway taking away kids of some pair on bogus claims(in Norway it's guilty under proven innocent when dealing with CPS) and putting them temporarily into an adoptive family of Muslims who abused said kids. No CPS employee lost their job or faced consequences for it and you will see self proclaimed Scandinavians who will tell you that this is an accident and the CPS kind of institutions circumventing rule of law and being guided by absolutely retarded standards is normal.
>>18429803new whiteness map just dropped.
if you never charge anyone with corruption and CIA funded NGOs never a priori define your government institutions as corrupt than corruption doesn't exist
>>18430101>The CIA made me join a drug cartel.thanks for the input, Pablo.
>>18430101Ukraine generally has a corruption rating that's Latinx-tier, tostiloco.
>>18429945>They are too stupid to notice it.What are some corruption scandals in Scandinavia then? Or are they so good at it they never get caught?
>>18429803"Corruption" is when ordinary people can benefit from it because they're related to someone at the hospital who can get them in for treatment quicker. What happens in the west is that it's all obfuscated behind a hundred layers of bureaucracy and legal loopholes so that bribery is hidden and only benefits people at the top which is very civilised and respectable.
>>18429803Uhh Ukraine is a vibrant Democracy, chud.
i have a theory that 'the more ethnic group look the same (chinks for example)' the more prone they are to being corrupt since they have to work harder to stand out. obviously things like overall iq matter as well thats a very core source of the motivation. western/northern europeans have a variety of alleles like black/blonde/brown/brunette hair colors and blue/green/brown/grey eye colors so individuals dont 'need' to work as hard to 'stand out' with a social class. this is why gook cultures and latin american cultures are so rigid with their social hierarchies and have larger power gaps.
>Why doesn't it exist in the Nordics?Protestantism.
>>18429803The CPI measures what people THINK about corruption in their country, not actual corruption. For example Germany scores as one of the least corrupted countries in spite of many scandals (BER, Stuttgart 21, Deutsche Bank, Siemens, VW, FlowTex, Wirecard, Regensburg SPD, etc) because the average German doesn't perceive any corruption in their daily life, like they don't need to bribe cops for safety, they don't get special treatment by the administration by handing over a small envelope to the guy at the counter, they can't get sick leave by bribing the doctor and so on. There's a shitload of corruption in the "least corrupt" countries but it's confined to higher politics and business, it's not an everyday thing like in BiH or Moldova.
>>18430797Latin Americans come in all sizes and colours especially in countries like Brazil or Colombia, so you're not making a lot of sense. They're the opposite of monochrome chinks.
>>18430101senoooooor
on the east we aren't progressive and we still have corruption instead of lobbying
>>18430100Monarchies aren't white.
>>18429803Doesn't the UK lock up people for political wrongthink at Soviet rates?
>>18431646/pol/ straight up lies about that shit and spreads sensationalist misinformation.
>>18431696>USSR in the Brezhnev era prosecuted its domestic enemies under Article 70 (Agitation) & Article 190-1 (Disinformation). 3,234 people were arrested under those articles from 1962-1985. The UK prosecuted 2,341 cases of internet speech in 2022 alone, with 1,816 convictions.Are these stats inaccurate?
>>18431702>source is some right wing site spewing misinfoLike I said, misinformation.
>>18431705These are the sources from where I found it:https://imwerden.de/pdf/istochnik_1995_06__ocr.pdfhttps://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2022
>>18431705>>18431707here's a screencap of the ussr figures for tldr
