Rewire,

I like the point you are making about being humble enough to recognize and admit to bad qualities so that we might be able to work on it and improve ourself. I think you're right. If we don't even have the self-honesty and humility as a people and a society to admit our bad qualities, then where would improvement come from?

But, Rewire, what I am also saying is that what I see in Nepali culture is that it is not possible to be honest and a good person living in Nepal if you don't have power, money and social connections. It is so difficult to be an honest and good person without power, money and social connection that it is only a theoretical ideal. Practically it is not possible.
Now compared to Nepal, in America it is so much easier to be an honest and good person without much power, money or social connection.

The fact is that in Kathmandu, the system is so weak that you get further ahead economically and politically being a bad (corrupt and unethical) person. In Kathmandu you are a lot less likely to be caught doing bad things.
America is just the opposite. Here it is so much easier to be good and honest. And since the ramifications of being bad are not good at all because America has a strong legal system, large prisons, your credit-rating is affected, fellony charge goes on your permanent record, etc. So in America being bad, you don't get too far in life.
So in America there is so much more incentive to being good than bad. In Kathmandu, it is just the opposite.

Do you agree?