be lectured and hectored on freedom and human rights after 100 years of struggle to regain our liberty and human dignity by those who participated in our subjugation, is willing to suffer impudence". However, for Tatsuo, Asian Values are not an assertion of the cultural uniqueness of Asia but an attempt to convert the negativity and counter modernity claims of the Western 'orientalist' view of Asia, against which the West staged its own modem self identity, into a positive, 'proper' model of being Asian. As Tatsuo writes, "much of the appeal of this discourse holds for the wider Asian audience comes from its healing effect on people's self-esteem".
             In the West, the official reasoning behind Asian Values is viewed suspiciously and accused of being invalid and corrupt. As a rule, Western critics reject the South East Asian leaders' economic arguments in favour of Asian values as "empirically...dubious and misleading". They cite examples such as post-war Japan to illustrate that liberalism and democracy can accompany economic success. In rega
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