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Asian values demand self-restraint and respect for the community within which we live and die. It is the Asian badge of prudent registration of harmonious coexistence down the centuries.

So why do we fight over our socalled “right” to have a beer festival in a public space, when we can gracefully enjoy ourselves to the last drop in private spaces?

Yet there are opportunists screaming for blood as they exploit the political mileage for themselves.

There are so-called leaders who do not see the sacred wisdom in Asian values but make political, religious and racial currency under the cloak of dubious racial, religious, and human rights arguments.

Should we not let our Asian values triumph over these “imported” carnival fads that leave much to be desired in comparison to our own rooted Asian values?

If we are Asian, let our Asian values take root and be preserved for generations to come. Let us not pretend to be “westernised”.

All Malaysians know and do cherish our superior Asian values, which must remain the bedrock of a distinctly progressive future.

When more than seventy per cent of the world’s population is made up of Asians, what is so wrong in Malaysians respecting the Asian values of moderation, consideration and belief in the eternal truth that promotes selfrestraint, respect and endorsement of everything Asian?