![]() ![]() ![]() 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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