All I can say from living in Asia for 10 years, the general culture is to take anything that moves. Walking through a zoo you can hear the people chatting about how that particular animal tastes or might taste... I have seen protected wild animals in Chinese food markets, wounded, dying in cages, being sold for food. And the beaches here are being combed until there is nothing. Of course poachers come in all nationalities, but countries have their own cultural habits, and from my experience, those from China are not concerned about obeying such hunting/fishing rules.
That being said, we Americans drag our own cultural baggage around when we travel as well. I recall lots of "imported" lawyers being set up in Taiwan. The poor people have no idea what's coming down the pike...
Turns out, in Hmong culture, if you kidnap a girl from her family's house, it's a bit like a proposal for marriage, so to speak, and Mr. Hmong was just trying to get married by sneaking into her room in the middle of the night and kidnapping her.
Fresno cops had to explain that, uh, we don't do things like that here. Kidnapping? No. 12 YO bride? No.