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Feb

2012

India’s Troubled Relationship with the Internet –

India’s awkward attempts to control its citizens’ activities online are shifting further and further away from the liberal democratic principles that inform the US-India relationship, and towards the cliché of “Asian democracy”, where individual freedoms and rights are secondary to societal cohesion.

cogitasia.com/relationship-with-the-internet

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India Democracy Internet Censorship Asian

Nov

2011

Balderdash: The World's Favourite Past Time

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Youth Age East West Asian

Youth surveys have shown that the young sometimes have moral standards just as high, if not higher, than those of adults, says the respected scholar who has done research in the fields of citizenship, moral and values education.

One study he did on youth in Hong Kong, for example, showed that they expressed deep respect for their parents. 'They sometimes don't know how to communicate with their parents, but they know that fulfilling filial piety is not just giving money to them, but also spending time with them.
The problem, he says, is that people tend not to notice when the values that they have imbibed since they were young no longer take pride of place in society.

While frugality, for example, is a long-cherished virtue, it is increasingly at odds with capitalist economies where employment is dependent on people spending - rather than saving - money.
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- There continues to be a distinct difference in the values upheld in Asian and Western education curricula in this globalised age.
  
  Words like 'filial piety', 'harmony' and 'resilience' are more commonly used in Asian contexts, while 'tolerance' and 'liberty' are more often heard in the West.
- In many Asian countries, including Singapore, citizenship education is bound to moral education. Someone qualifies as a good citizen if he is first a good person.
  
  Regardless of the country's political system, Asian citizenship curricula tend to focus on cultivating good moral beings before talking about citizens' relationship with the wider society.
  
  In contrast, he says, Western citizenship education is often tied to politics. A good citizen in the Western context is someone who is politically literate and knows his rights and responsibilities, such as electing a government to power...
- 'if everyone defines good in his or her own way, if we are just tending to our own interest, then we cannot come to a societal compromise'.
- Asian countries, meanwhile, are starting to open the discussion on individual rights because 'the downside of not knowing how to exercise your rights is that you forget your individuality'.