“and yes there is something known as Asian culture.”
No there isn’t.
“I’m talking about a broader willingness to be cruel. “
Your racism is telling.
“It seems to me that something about Asian culture devalues life.”
As opposed to 40 million unborn babies killed in the US??
All statements based on race are not wrong. I would never treat Asians differently, I just wonder why it seems to exist. I could be wrong, I’m certainly not being dogmatic about it.
I agree with you that cruel acts against other humans is certainly not limited to Asian cultures, but for someone to have made an observation about a particular group of related cultures is not racism by any stretch. People need to be more careful about bandying that accusation around. It has become the knee-jerk response anytime someone makes an observation about any culture whose members are a minority in this country, and it just makes the person using it look stupid and vindictive.
Members of minority cultures are all hot and heavy about preserving their cultural differences which they tout as good for America because of “diversity”. Then, when some aspect of that culture is criticized, they cry “racism!” So, their choices are to assimilate and adopt American culture as their own, or preserve their culture and be prepared for observations about some undesirable differences their culture presents. I would go so far as to suggest that forcing acceptance of the undesirable aspects of those cultures on the mainstream “host” culture leads to exactly the tribalism animosity that is the root cause of what this thread is about in the first place.
When in Rome.........
As for the 40 million aborted babies over the last thirty-six years, it is indeed a holacaust. But in the context of this discussion it’s apples and oranges, off topic, and looks like a grasp at straws. But since you raised abortion in connection with cruelty, let’s talk about abortion in China, the largest of all Asian cultures. Since the Chinese usually only allow one child per family (sometimes two for rural families if the first-born is a girl) and that’s been going on for thirty years, and given that China has about four times our population, the number of forced abortions and “avoided” births through forced sterilization is over 300 million, nearly 10 times the number of abortions in the U.S. where there is no forced sterilization. Further, in the U.S., half or fewer than half the population support abortion. There is a strong voice here speaking vociferously against it, but there is no such voice in China because the government shoots such people on sight or imprisons them for life, which is indeed cruel.