that corruption is largely cultural and (in part for that reason) changeable.

Slaying Giants [1]Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. —William Shakespeare, Othello

Our sideways glances at classmates, coworkers, and neighbors are part of the peer instinct,

Scholars began to appreciate that it was not simply collective institutions or individual psychologies that determined culture, but the interplay between them. Cultural institutions shape the individual’s mind, and the individual’s mind shapes cultural institutions. [14]Culture and psyche are inexorably intertwined.

Though science is increasingly adopting this dynamic paradigm, the practical world still tends to construe cultural patterns as unchanging (and unchangeable).

Its scholars study many different kinds of cultural groups—from hunter-gatherer clans to corporations to nations—investigating cognitive structures, social structures, biases, and behaviors.

Hiddink believed that cultural backgrounds and identities influence players, but not so rigidly that they are limited to one style.

Our backward-gazing nostalgia is [51]part of the ancestor instinct,

Contrary to essentialist views of cultural character as set in stone, people’s cultural conditioning and convictions change over time. We internalize new cultural identities and codes with every new community we join.