[anal_reactor]

Unfortunately, many cultures don't see honesty as a value on its own. In Polish there's a word "frajer" which is an offensive term for someone who got cheated or didn't take advantage of a situation. The logic is that, if the society as a whole is dishonest, then it doesn't make sense to be a martyr recognized by no-one, and it's better to make sure you take care of yourself first.

[nsajko]

Fun fact: that's actually a Yiddish word: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frajer

English translation: dope, sucker. As in there's a sucker born every minute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...

[eigenket]

Fun fact: according to the etymology I could find online it's actually originally a German word (meaning client of a prostitute) that was borrowed by Yiddish, then borrowed in turn by Polish from Yiddish and also ended up in a couple of other European languages.

[tokai]

Yiddish is a German language.

[eigenket]

Not exclusively. It has elements from Hebrew and Aramaic (of course) as well as from various Slavic languages. A big chunk of it derives from High German but not all.

[gumby]

What tokai said was OK: English is also classified as a Germanic language even though it includes a lot of French words, not to mention Hindi etc.

For that matter, a German word like „Dolmetsch“ doesn’t make German a Turkic language.

[eigenket]

I think calling something a Germanic language is a bit different to calling it a German language.

I completely agree with your point about a "Germanic language" but I disagree about "a German language".

[phreeza]

Similar word also exists in standard German, where it originally meant "f*cker" but now just means a man who buys services from a prostitute.

[rurban]

Freier is not F*cker, just someone who needs to pay for sex, and is more independent then

[phreeza]

No it more likely comes from archaic "freien", which still is used for "to marry" but used to mean something slightly different ;)

[fransje26]

They still use a variant of that word in Dutch: vrijen. With the old meaning.. ;)

[actionfromafar]

The even older meaning is "courter".

[verisimi]

Also, 'chutzpah' which has a sense of being proud of trying to get away with it, unashamed.

[alex-korr]

The word is widely used in Russian as well.

[azherebtsov]

Reminds me about covid time math competition. It had to be taken online. Usually maximum score can be reached by less than a dozen of students, but when competition was online there were over 3000 math geniuses

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/koronawirus-gigantyczne-rozb...

[ggambetta]

Unfortunately very similar to Uruguay, where I grew up. One of the many reasons I haven't lived there for a while now :(

[piva00]

To pile on top: also pretty similar to Brazilian culture where following the rules will be looked down as being stupid (since everyone else isn't abiding by them, you doing it is considered as self-handicapping).

One of my least favourite features of Brazil and definitely in the top 3 reasons why I left the country more than a decade ago.

[fransje26]

In Czech Republic, under communism, they used to say:

    "If you are not stealing from the state, you are stealing from your own family."