I don't think they think it is a good way of life, but rather see it as inevitable. They will all tell stories about the teachers, students, other business people, gov't officials who are corrupt, they will deplore it ... but with an air of resignation.
What they don't see is a way to stop it, which we in the west kid ourselves believe we can do.
When you have a body like the World Bank making annual assessments of how corrupt countries are (and we are talking LEAST corrupt - not 'not corrupt'), then there is a pretty major acceptance around the world that this is normal activity. And when some of the biggest/most powerful/most influential countries in the world don't make it to the top 10 of the least corrupt countries - then we know it is ingrained within the systems across the world.