W10. Human Rights and Asian Values/ Kim Seonghui

1. Summary
The international human rights movement began mainly due to the Holocaust of World War II. Through the 1993 Bangkok Declaration, Asian governments began advocating Asian values. They argued that the human rights movement centered around the West was wrong. This is because the West has colonial responsibility for Asian countries. Supporters of universal human rights argue that these Asian countries' claims should be morally reprehensible because they do not support human rights and the government is trying to benefit. Meanwhile, supporters of Asian values accuse those who support universal human rights of being cultural imperialism and ethnic centrists. With these two arguments at odds, people sought to find a way to accommodate both Western individualism and Asian communism.
 
2. New/Interesting
I took it for granted at first that human rights are universal. Reading this article, however, I have learned anew that human rights, including these values of Western individualism, and Asian values, may clash. But now, I think that individualism is increasingly becoming an important value around the world. While the values of Asia and Western individualism still clash, it occurred to me that in the near future, these values will not clash and will likely end in the victory of Western individualism.
 
3. Discussion
Realistically, we cannot choose just one of these two arguments. What value would you put first? What is the reason?

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