The Auron MacIntyre Show The Danger of Cultural Universalism | Guest: Wade Stotts | 4/28/25
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Cross-Cultural Honesty Gaps
- The study shows vast differences in honesty levels between countries, with some deceiving up to 70% and others as low as 3.6%.
- Honesty correlates strongly with economic trust and influences cultural interactions and business dealings worldwide.
Honesty Shapes Global Trust
- Honesty is linked to trust, which extends beyond one's own culture to others.
- Cultures with high dishonesty generally view others as dishonest, limiting trust and cooperation.
Bribery to Personal Projects
- In Afghanistan, bribes to warlords often funded personal projects like roads to their dad's house, not community needs.
- This illustrates deep cultural expectations that affect trust and infrastructure development.