W10.2 Human Rights and Asian Values / Juhee Cha

1. Summary
The international human rights movement in World War II has triggered an increase in human rights. There has been a lot of effort to restore universal moral authority for people who felt irrational in the context of Holocaust and capitalism. However, there is also criticism of this. The Asian government insists that human rights standards should reflect specific circumstances in the country. They also say it is a matter of their own country. In other words, they ignore cultural relativism. However, universal human rights defenders criticize them as extreme cultural relativists and morally unreasonable. Those who defend Asian countries denounce cultural imperialism and nationalism.

2. Interesting
Human rights are moral principles and norms and have the same meaning in any society. Nevertheless, it was fresh that it might not fit with each cultural situation. I think the concept of human rights in Western and Eastern cultures is a little different. The West thinks that each individual is an independent entity and concludes a social contract with the state, but the East Asian region seems to think more of the rights of the individual, in part and in whole, and of the relationship between the individual and the society. Human rights, which are the fundamental rights that human beings should have, are held in the West and East, but it is interesting to note that their concepts are different. I think that the two groups need to agree and understand each other, rather than criticize each other.

3. Discussion
"Human rights are universal rights that human beings must enjoy. However, the concepts are slightly different in the East and the West. What do you think of the claim that the concept of human rights must be reflected by the specific circumstances of the country?

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