1: The book The Cheating Culture, has changed my opinion on what I consider cheating in my life. Before reading this book I thought that cheating was only big things like taking performance enhancing drugs in sports or giving answers to a friend on a test. Whereas just slightly bending the rules didn’t occur to me as cheating. Also I came to a realization that almost everyone cheats or has cheated before. The people that due cheat risk a loss but also gain a huge reward if they don’t get caught. One thing that I remember best from the book is that so many cheat to be part of the winning culture and so many do it because the risk is small and the reward is huge.
2. Many themes are presented in this book but the biggest was the fact that the …show more content…
This book shows how cheating has become part of our human nature. For example, one of the main points of the book is that humans cheat because they believe that everyone else cheats too. Also it has become human nature to cheat in order to get ahead of everyone else. It is in our nature that we must cheat to win and get an advantage. Studies are showing that humans have also lost trust in each other. “In 1960, 58 percent of Americans agreed that ‘most people can be trusted.’ By 1998, only 40 percent agreed with this statement” (91). This book is telling us that humans are losing trust in each other, making human nature less trustworthy.
4. To me, a good book is a book that makes you want to keep reading and be sad when it’s over. I didn’t quite feel this way while reading this book but I do understand that it is a nonfiction book so it doesn’t have the same appeal as a fiction book to me. However, this book did make me question and think about cheating. Just like most people in the world I have cheated but before reading this book I don’t think I considered what I did to be “cheating”. I thought of it more as bending the rules. This book helped me realize what cheating really is and the impact it is having on our
2. Many themes are presented in this book but the biggest was the fact that the …show more content…
This book shows how cheating has become part of our human nature. For example, one of the main points of the book is that humans cheat because they believe that everyone else cheats too. Also it has become human nature to cheat in order to get ahead of everyone else. It is in our nature that we must cheat to win and get an advantage. Studies are showing that humans have also lost trust in each other. “In 1960, 58 percent of Americans agreed that ‘most people can be trusted.’ By 1998, only 40 percent agreed with this statement” (91). This book is telling us that humans are losing trust in each other, making human nature less trustworthy.
4. To me, a good book is a book that makes you want to keep reading and be sad when it’s over. I didn’t quite feel this way while reading this book but I do understand that it is a nonfiction book so it doesn’t have the same appeal as a fiction book to me. However, this book did make me question and think about cheating. Just like most people in the world I have cheated but before reading this book I don’t think I considered what I did to be “cheating”. I thought of it more as bending the rules. This book helped me realize what cheating really is and the impact it is having on our