I got that link from an academic friend. And what was really interesting was how culture-specific this was.
In some cultures, directly copying the elders who came up with the wisdom you're being taught is the right thing to do. Changing their words into your own, worse, phrasing is disrespectful.
Some people are, of course, just taking the piss. But a lot of them come from places where plagiarism isn't a thing.
INteresting. Yes, I remember seeing a documentary about teaching in a rural Chinese classroom once, and the kids were learning word for word, and reciting passages sight unseen from the books. So yes, I can see how that would instill the idea of directly copying.
(I think it was in the context of this being something the Chinese education authorities were seeking to change.)
The problem described here wasn't direct copying, but outsourcing your essays to essay-writing services. Not at all the same thing as respecting your elders.
Furthermore, even in our culture, direct copying of your elders is permitted, even required. You just have to credit them properly.
Our driving licenses, though not our passports, list also height, weight, hair color, and even eye color, along with sex. These are all useful for identifying a person physically, which is why they're there. To suggest that they have nothing to do with identification is batty. The fact that sex is not perfectly binary should prompt us to find a way to be inclusive of those whose sex is not perfectly binary, rather than pretend there aren't a large number who are straightforwardly one or the other.
Aside from sex, European passports contain none of that information. Of those, height, weight and hair-colour are pretty useless in identifying someone in a document that is issued for 10 years. The automated identification machines at airports rely on facial recognition alone, so arguably only the person's name, passport number and photograph really need to be included.
An inappropriate place to put this but you're the only person I know who would understand. I finished Dark Souls 2 (the Scholar edition with all DLC). In fact I did two simultaneous playthroughs, one as a hex-based caster and one as a dual wield dex/faith build. It was as challenging as Dark Souls -- there are some things they do slightly better, for example many/most of the boss fights you are (if you want) accompanied by computer generated NPCs. So you often have companions along (and you can heal them) meaning even if you don't want other human players you still get the experience of fighting as a team. Big change is that from the start you can teleport between bonfires. It means you don't get the Dark Souls experience of having a "thank goodness, that shortcut will save me five minutes if I die in a remote location" (shortcuts are still a big thing of course) but you also don't quite get the same satisfaction of getting muscle memory of how the world fits together
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In some cultures, directly copying the elders who came up with the wisdom you're being taught is the right thing to do. Changing their words into your own, worse, phrasing is disrespectful.
Some people are, of course, just taking the piss. But a lot of them come from places where plagiarism isn't a thing.
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(I think it was in the context of this being something the Chinese education authorities were seeking to change.)
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Furthermore, even in our culture, direct copying of your elders is permitted, even required. You just have to credit them properly.
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I'm getting it once I can afford a new desktop, and really looking forward to it!
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