First, I'm not making a statement about how good or bad the people in the region are. I was posing a question: Why does cruelty seem to be more generally acceptable in the area. You might possibly simply say: "It's not." That may be the answer, I'm just looking at the following and posing the question. If you can back off your knee-jerk reactions and assumptions for just a moment and stop putting words in my simple question you MIGHT see something in it. Suicide is an accepted way of life in many Asian countries. Suicide soldiers (not just in Japan) are revered as heroes. Suicide for honor is respected as honorable. As far as I know China has the only state MANDATED abortion policy in the world.
The simple answer may be that Asian CULTURE generally values the whole over the individual. Sacrificing an individual apparently is not as big a deal as it would be say here.
When is the last time you saw a business executive commit suicide over honor and be lauded for it in the west? When have you seen American protesters setting themselves on fire?
I realize I changed the argument a little by going from cruelty to valuing human life. But they MAY be related.
I admire Asian culture(s)(all of the permutations) a great deal. So it's rather ironic that I would be attacked as a RACIST for a simple statement.
I doubt you need much exercise because you seem to get plenty of exercise by jumping to conclusions.
The point many posters made to you is one you continue to avoid. Europeans are in a class by themselves when it comes to killing others. Marxism, a product of European culture, is in a league of its own. NAZI's outpaced the Japanese when it came to murder. It's possible you get more exercise than me, maybe. But, you are lazy with you mind.