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This 7-page paper focuses on a review of the book "The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights." The paper examines whether the book supports the thesis, and if the book sheds any further light on the issue.
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the thesis that human rights violations are considered differently between Eastern and Western cultures. In other words, what might be considered a human rights violation in someplace like the United
States isnt necessarily considered one in someplace like China. Although its interesting to note that, in the book, defenders of Asian values and Asian rights tend to respond by attacking
Western governments for their own past and present violations of human rights. The main thesis of this book is that human rights
and cultural mores tend to be at odds, but given the contemporary society in which we live, perhaps too much is made about cultural mores, especially from more oppressive Asian
regimes. One issue that the authors tend to examine extensively (and with good reason)is the idea of the so-called "Asian values." The
main problem in defining "Asian values" is the same problem as designating a culture "Asian." Asia includes a lot of countries - China, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and
so on - meaning that the authors point out that anyone who claims to speak for all Asians is actually not doing so, as there are so many culture within
the Asian culture itself. Other than that, some of the authors point out that on the one hand, many times, Asian governments
us the "Asian values" concept as an excuse to do nothing about human rights - yet others note that there could be some merit to these acclamations.
Then there are those - such as Onuma - who point out that western culture hasnt exactly been innocent of rights violations, either. Onuma points
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