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Do Czech Teens Lie Online?

By John M. Grohol, Psy.D.

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“Do Czech Teens Lie Online?”

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1. 314159pi 9:31 pm on October 7th, 2009

   so we are talking about a relatively small ethnically homogeneous country where young people do not lie about information that is publicly available. and the laws concerning how minors are treated there, is it the same as here? because we instruct our children to lie on the internet in a,erica to protect them from predators and they should! and our children cannot contractually use many websites if their true age was known so to be full citizens of the net the kids need to lie in the usa.
   i do not know the financial laws in czech republic but there are a lot of countries where ordinary people, much less children, do not have credit cards, so why would such people need to lie to use a service on the net?
   what is most interesting about this story is how the researchers used their own culture to extrapolate results from czech culture. i do not believe this is a psychological issue. rather it is a pragmatic anthropological issue.

   incidentally, i have friends who work for czech immigrants here in new york. and these immigrants are quite candid with my friend about their dislike of jews, with whom they have no experience in their native land. this saddens my friend, who is not jewish but he tells me about it. an american gentile employer with the same disposition–if he exists– would behave more cautiously about his ‘truthful’ opinions.
   truthfulness in itself does not confer a higher level of morality, as i hope my example demonstrates.

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