“I have lived in Asia and very much enjoy Asians and their Asian Culture.”
By culture if you mean respect for elders and guests, that’s universal.
I get the gist of you cultural reference.
But, really, the cultures are very, very different and equating a Chinese culture with Thai or Japanese is going to get you in trouble over there.
Japanese think the Chinese are impossibly dirty people and the Chinese really do hate the Japanese and have not forgotten WWII.
And yes, cruelty is not simply a cultural phenomenon, but it is the human condition.
We are all beasts carefully hiding under these laws we have created to manage our natures.
I totally agree with you.
We don’t usually think of Sicilians and Swedes as sharing the same culture, since they are very different. However, all European cultures, being based on the Christian religion and the ancient classical heritage, have a great deal in common.
Many “Asian” cultures, by which I assume PM really means “East Asian” cultures, are much more different from each other than any two European cultures.
Their cultures just look similar to us, because what we focus on is their common difference from ourselves.