This is not just Asia but with the entire Eastern region including the Middle East, Eastern Europe and even Africa to some degree. What I am about to say is not prejudicial, stereotypical or racist as these are just my personal observation and they are in no way judgemental in that just because they have the traits as what I am about to describe, they are necessarily good or bad. And I understand there are exceptions to the rule always but what I am about to say is what I observe generally.
I find that the people from the "East" tend to embrace order and security more. I don't know if this is due to personality or something else but they seem to naturally prefer rules and norms, something that's reliable and when you have preferences for rules and something reliable, nothing is more reliable than having a strong leader, a father figure watching over you, taking care of you but at the same time telling you what to do. Whereas I find the Western culture is more adventurous, innovative, and constantly seeking out new things, new ways of doing things. And because of these traits, western culture tends to be more explorative, less satisfied with the status quo and in a way more rebellious. And when a culture in general has these traits, they would prefer to be more individualistic and have more say about their lives and with a less preference, relatively (
@VicBee's favourite word) speaking, for a strong leader watching over them. Even though in western culture still would like to have a father figure like God in Christianity but this God has evolved to be more for spiritual guidance and moral compass now rather than someone that has a strong hold on their lives and even dictate their everyday lives. I mean how else would you explain it that both cultures started off with dictatorship regimes and yet after just several hundred years, the majority of the countries of Western culture would embrace a democratic system where a leader is chosen collectively by its citizens and the majority of the countries of eastern culture are still stuck with dictatorship regimes? And even for the countries that have a democratic system, their "flavour" of the democratic system like in the country of Singapore is still different from the democratic system of the West. It has a parliament and an election system but everything is still centrally decided by one person or a very small group of people and the treatment of dissidents, of anybody who criticizes the government is still very harsh.
