I've spent my whole summer in South Korea.
The jist of the other posts are generally correct.
Western culture is brain-dead YOLO stuff, living for the now, consume consume consume, don't give a fuck, 'I didn't choose to be born so fuck the world', me me me. But it's also more liberal. For those with good morals, the liberal attitude of Western culture creates a nice amount of freedom, but life is greatly stifled by the amount of dickheads conditioned to utter wankerishness by the consumer culture we have.
Eastern culture is humble, respectful, diligent, aspirational, thoughtful. It's very safe, relaxed, caring and people much more typically communicate about intelligent things here, rather than new fashions, fads, gossip or other shite. On the down side, some culturally conditioned rules can be a bit of a drag, like the fact that older people always have the final say. Then again I quite like this side of it because it creates an inbuilt sense of respect for others.
I dunno. I'm trying to give an even opinion but in all honesty Asian culture is far better in my opinion. I'm British but have spent a long enough time in South Korea, and also India, to learn a thing or two about their ways. I think Asian culture is far, far better, to be perfectly honest. I hate the average citizens of my country. Of course on an individual level everyone is very nice to talk to, but collectively the people of Western countries are somewhat of a lost cause, they have no direction or desire, probably because their forefathers already 'won' the world for them, whereas Asians are still fighting that battle so they still need to look out for each other, hence their sense of community is still much more tightly bound, even in the big cities.
I dunno. Some people would complain that, for example, they aren't allowed the freedom of getting blind drunk and having a wail of a time on the streets of Korea because everyone here thinks badly of it, but come on... is such hedonism really necessary in society? The things we consider as 'normal' or 'free' are actually just symptoms of a bigger, failed social picture. Western culture is reaching the peak of the civilisational cycle, in my opinion. We fought, we won, we grew, we prospered, and now with such affluence, hedonism and complacency has taken hold, and so begins the demise.
What the fuck am I talking about. Sorry, bit of a ramble. Basically Eastern culture has far less of the wasteful flaws of the West. It's as simple as that. I love it here.
Oh and the same goes for Arab and African culture. Aside from the dogmatic, idiotic religious stuff we hear about, the average citizens are actually very humble and respectable people.
Consumerism is a Western creation so it's destroying us first. The rest of the world will follow. I think China/East Asia will go next. Then India. It'll creep into Africa. Russia will be last. By which time, the cycle will have gone right around and the poor Europeans will probably have the communal ways I talk of.