Let's say someone in India complains about a broken water pipe. Instead of the problem being addressed, the official responsible for the water pipe denies it's a problem and counterattacks him instead

Let's say someone in India complains about a broken water pipe. Instead of the problem being
addressed, the official responsible for the water pipe denies it's a problem and counterattacks him
instead, because daring to question his efficacy in his role was challenging his Izzat. So the official
destroys the person who brought the problem up. The water pipe never gets fixed.
Izzat is also the reason why Indian managers are so infamous for hiring more Indians. It's because
from the manager's perspective, he's using his position to gain an invisible social currency. Merit
and actual qualifications come second to that idea. If he hired a westerner, he would not gain or
even lose Izzat doing so. He has a very strong cultural incentive not to be impartial. Meanwhile,
if he can strong-arm dozens of Indians into a company, he is gaining huge quantities of Izzat and
conspirators who owe an absolute debt to him.
It's not uncommon to see Indians gloat about their success in the west. And yes, izzat is very much
a system that enables short term success. But the fundamental reality is the prosperity that these
Indians find so attractive in the first place wouldn't exist if the west practiced something similar to
Izzat. Our systems can only exist on the assumption of good faith, and not a majority of people
exploiting them for destructive short term gain. On top of that, if an Indian causes the systems and
companies he comes into contact with to collapse, then he can just back to India with his
plunder. He has no stakes in the long-term prosperity, functionality or stability of these systems.
The stakes are completely asymmetrical in the Indian's favour.
You all know about that infamous video of that Indian scamming a food bank. Once again,
winning is righteous. Losing is not. employing ‘clever’ means (jugaad), he successfully extracted
more resources for himself and his family. From the perspective of jugaad, a rule is not something
to respect, but merely an obstacle to the Indian's own gain. Since he cheated the system and
wasn't caught, he is seen as a righteous and dignified man in the Izzat framework.
read а story in India about a man offering to pay another man to use а public toilet instead of
defecating openly. The latter left and came back with several friends and beat the former to death.
The problem was not that he was defecating openly, but that he was criticised for doing so. And
with Izzat, it's not an eye-for-an-eye. Izzat is often an eye-for-a-whole-head. Disproportionately
and brutally annihilating your enemies is the correct move to make because you take back your
lost [Izzat and then some. This kind of vindictiveness would be rightly seen as horrifying and
disgusting in most of the world.