At [the London School of Economics], we have an enormous problem of plagiarism among our Asian students. Despite the fact that each student, Asian or otherwise, must sign a declaration that their work is original and they have not plagiarized, many Asian students simply copy the work of established scholars.
To them it is a venerable act of honoring their masters to “borrow” from them, by copying their words verbatim. No matter how much we tell them that it is wrong, Asian students simply cannot understand why it is wrong to honor their intellectual masters by faithfully reproducing their work.
Needless to say, this is no recipe for scientific progress…
“Race differences in intelligence: how research changed my mind to overcome the ‘all races are equal’ dogma”
