I agree that’s a huge part of it that I left out. I guess I threw that in the bin of “cultural differences.”
When they received their graded exams back the cheating student came up to my friend yelling at him for making him miss points due to the answers he copied from my friend being incorrect.
Of course we embellished the story over the years where the guy was yelling all kinds of things and about how he ruined his life, etc.