Parking in NYC, and changing World Culture

Parking in NYC

“You don’t change a country culture from outside” – Lawrence Harrison

“Why do diplomats at the UN from countries like Quawait, Egypt, Tchad, Sudan, Mocambique, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Syria collect hundreds of parking tickets in New York every year? And why do Swedish, Danish, Japanese, Israelian, Norwegian or Canadian diplomats never have parking tickets?” David Brooks wrote this in The New York Times, some time back.
He linked this behavior to corruption and the countries position on the “Transparency International”. Is it culture?

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