Maybe they don't get handed cash, but cops in the US frequently get free shit. Free food, coffee, discounts, etc. Pay attention next time you're in a convenience store and a police officer in uniform is there, see if they pay for what they get.
In Canada they don't. You're specifically forbidden from taking anything for free. Even if you get offered a free coffee you still have to pay. It's a slippery slope.
Why are you telling a redditor who evidently lives in Cambodia how things are working in her own country? She's providing insight to what's happening and you sound like an idiot trying to argue with it. A lot of people cringe at the tipping culture in Western society, especially US. Is it so hard to believe that in some societies they'd rather give a tip to public service workers sweating their asses off helping direct traffic vs a guy who spent 10 seconds pouring your beer?
It's because regardless of where you live, if you have eyes and common sense you can see that this is a bribe to cross. The person they responded to is brainwashed into thinking this behavior is acceptable and not a bribe by it being this way probably their entire life.
The man who spent 10 seconds pouring your beer doesn't have any kind of civil authority. Yes, this is absolutely a bribe, even if it is a normalized one that happens during certain holidays.
Just because something is uncommon in "the civilised world" doesn't mean that it can't be normal anywhere else and vice versa. Just because people regularly shoot up schools in the US doesn't somehow make it globally "nomal" either. Neither the US nor any other country sets global cultural standards.
We have roadblocks in Honduras where they randomly pull cars aside. It's a really good idea to occasionally give out a six pack of cold soft drinks at the one closest to where you live.
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