Funny that you say that, because in my country there is also somewhat of a culture of praising rogues and cheaters, and I had a professor who would say (when talking about cheating by copying in exams, I think) that he spent some years in America, and there no one would ever do such things, because there was a honor system and no one would ever think about do it such a thing.

Not that I ever believed him much about that (I do think he believed what he said...).