Even more to the point, no two modern - day scholars seem able to draw up the same common list of errors, each finding on the other's worksheet
difficulties which have,
in their opinion, plausible modern - day alternate explanations often involving a reassessment of the author's intention and / or
cultural context.
The form of argument
in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse
in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the
cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the
difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism
in constructing empowering conversations
in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially
in a cross-
cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental
context in general and East Asia
in particular.
The health promotion resource has the potential to normalise
difficulties encountered by parents when parenting their son or daughter
in a new
cultural context and to discuss topics that carry significant stigma.