This is still rough thinking but I'll give it a pass for exploring cultural diversity. Asian or Western nations are less monolithic than you portray. It's important to recognize that Asian nations are far more populous than we're accustomed to in the west and more homogeneous. They evolved under strict hierarchical structure with everyone competing for dominance over everyone else. Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan are culturally modeled similarly but only China remains undemocratic. Yet, even the democratic nations are corporatist, meaning government and key enterprises are working hand in hand to advance the national interest (including Singapore). It's a form of fascism in sheep clothes. With time, there will be more political diversity to resemble western nations but it will take more generations to evolve from their paternalistic, hierarchical cultural structure to one open to more diversity of thoughts. The west is more complex because of various influences over centuries that has led to our democracies. Our challenge has been to compose with progressist and conservative values. We tend to think we are immune, but lest we forget, we occasionally revert to dictatorial controls from time to time with appalling consequences.