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Restoring The Honor Code

all sectors of society or business the nature and thereby, cul-
ture, of the country. The behavior of the citizenry affects every
single sector’s outputs because the inputs come from people
who believe and act in a certain way based on their beliefs about
what is good, bad, right, wrong and what they can get away with
or not and so on as picked up from the government and inter-
connected global societies (via the Internet and other forums).

A government that encourages its citizens to embrace debt as a
means of growth is likely to be one that is embracing the same
for itself and is run by people (citizens) who believe the same
thing. A government that is unwilling to fight against the injus-
tice of the West is one that is likely to dissuade its citizens from
fighting against injustice within its borders and is run by people
(citizens) who believe the same thing. The people who make up
the citizenry, make up the government and all these learned be-
haviors continue to be perpetuated from generation to genera-
tion unless they encounter some form of tangential redirection
from some force that seeks to rewrite the culture of a country.

This explains why, in Afrika, its people have embraced the debt
culture wholeheartedly and without flinching at the thought of
owing huge amounts of personal debt for decades, because Af-
rika has been in debt for as long as most people can remember
without there seeming to be (not that there isn’t) any serious
repercussions for it. The principle of ‘other people’s money’ is
one that is taught in business schools and by ‘finance gurus’ as
a tool to be used as financial leverage to help one ‘overcome’
the limitations of one’s own resources in order to build wealth.

This, coupled with the appeal of ‘easy’ access to the finer things
of life (a.k.a. materialism) which have been so craftily portrayed

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