East Asian economic success generated a cultural self-assertion movement

Evidence

While Chinese and Japanese found new value in their own cultures, they also shared in a broader reassertion of the value of Asian culture generally compared to that of the West. Industrialization and the growth that accompanied it produced in the 1980s and 1990s articulation by East Asians of what may be appropriately termed the Asian affirmation. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 291

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the term ‘Asian affirmation’ as a named historical phenomenon, and ties it to industrialization as cause.