The process of globalization overwhelms practically the whole modern world including not only well-developed post-industrial countries but developing countries as well. This process influences all aspects of human everyday life and it has already overcome only economical side of our reality. It is evident that nowadays not only economies of different countries change but also we observe a significant shift in their politics and their traditional way of life. As a result of economical and, consequently, cultural interaction between countries and even civilizations many developing as well as developed countries begin to lose their national identity and local color. Naturally, the problem of preserving of national culture and local traditional values arises because many researchers indicates that more and more countries become Westernized regardless their traditions and values. A very serious discussion is hold over the relations between the Western and Eastern or Asian civilizations. The latter is considered to be influenced by Western culture and Western set of values and some Asian countries begin to lose their traditional culture and values. But, as many specialists point out, it was a specific Asian values and traditions that provided many Asian countries so rapid economical growth which was later called ‘Asian Miracle’. However, nowadays, on analyzing the causes of a recent economical crisis that involved practically all countries of the region and even influenced other countries of the world, specialists become more pessimistic about the effectiveness of traditional Asian values in new conditions of globalization while others, on the contrary, estimate that it is exactly the lose of Asian cultural identity caused economical and social crisis.
In my work I’m going to analyze thoroughly who is right and who is not. I will also try to find out what Asian values are and the degree of Western traditions and culture on Asian civilization. From the very beginning it is necessary to emphasize that the start of Asian values debates practically coincide with a rapid economical growth of Asian countries accompanied by equally rapid penetration of the Western values on the East. Therefore, so called ‘Asian Miracle’ resulted not only in a relative economical prosperity but also in the shift in a traditional local set of values and engendered attempts to preserve the latter. However, it is still under the question what should be considered as particularly Asian values, consequently this term should be pr
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