"Asian Values" vs. "McWestern Values"

As western ideology pervasively grows across the global community, Southeast Asia's traditional values are unavoidably challenged by these foreign thoughts. "Western" concepts like democracy, individual rights, and freedom face stark competition with "Asian" concepts of family, state, and stability on the political realm. These "Asian values" are the grounds upon which Southeast Asian politics have been governed over the past decades, but often to the demise of their own rule. …