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In a group-oriented society, it’s unthinkable to refuse help to a friend in need. It’s a survival thing: when a friend needs money. You lend it to him, next week he’ll drive you to the train station to pick up your visiting cousins, wholesale replica designer handbags. When a neighbor needs help carrying some new furniture upstairs, you help her, in a month she’ll let you use her phone when you’ve lost your keys and are locked out of your flat in the cold. And when a classmate whispers a desperate question during a test, you answer him, after all, he lent you the book you needed in order to finish your essay last month how can you refuse?
An American might respond by saying that of course you can refuse, easily! And that there are a hundred better solutions to the problem of the desperate classmate than helping him cheat. But 99 of those “better solutions” are only better in the context of a society where the focus is on individual responsibility: and they are only “obvious” to some one who’s grown up in an individualist culture and been imbued with its values, wholesale designer handbags. For poles, what’s obvious and better is concern for the well-being of the whole group and the cooperative bonds that are essential to everyone’s survival.
There’s another level to the cheating issue as well. The ability to use one’s wits to escape from a difficult situation has always been highly valued in polish culture, doubtless due to historical reasons. Polish history is a history of hardship, invasion and occupation, wholesale coach handbags and poles have had to reply on their inventiveness to survive, not on wealth or military strength. Cheating at school-especially if it's done ‘success fully or at least creatively, is simply one variation on the time honored skill of worming your way out of a hard spot.
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