My experience living in a couple of countries in Europe is that people's tendencies for how they relate at an interpersonal and also towards society are cultural and that further, interpersonal and societal forms of relation are in fact separate.

For example, in The Netherlands there is more a tendency to consider the broader impact of one's actions (and being called "asocial" is actually considered insulting), whilst in Portugal if you don't take advantage of "The System" when you can get away with it you're considered a sucker (the dutch tend to think of "The System" as "everybody else", whilst the portuguese do not) but in both countries screwing people (not in a good, sex, way) is considered a bad thing and I would even say the portuguese tend to at least express more their concern with other people on a personal level, quit likely even be more ~~emphatic~~ empatetic.

Meanwhile in the UK taking advantage of others, personally, whilst being very polite about it, is the essence the upper class upbringing (the "gentleman" is certainly no such thing).

I expect that you get the same thing in US were culture is not broken along language barrier lines but none the less seems to be siloed by other factors.