Values are attached to a culture, and it is culture that binds society together. Therefore, I tend to think more of values as a set of rules that a group of individuals consciously or not agree as elements without which they cannot structure themselves. This, put simplistically, should explain why values are so different from one geographical location to another: the needs are different.
It still surprises me to have discussions where some people firmly believe some values are universal. Worse, some people are so manicheist in their reasoning that they only consider their truth to be valid.
I see change as an impossible process. People don't change, societies don't change, nothing changes out of reason. The only change that can happen is by necessity or out of force.
Even though I understand the need to retrieve old values and way of thinking I am not completely sure Asian societies will be able to go back to their traditional values. The globalized world tends to build a blended, stereotyped society having in at its foundation the American model. Unfortunately, we all tend to think more and more the same.
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