I’m not trying to flog a dead horse, but I’m genuinely curious as to whether the implication is that non -Asian cultures don’t have the same social contract of parents caring for young/children look after aging parents (which I’d dispute - the article says this has broken down in China in the 21st century, but this is really just lagging the west /south maybe a few decades), or whether the social contract elsewhere is fulfilled without the attendant guilt (hello Jewish mothers of my parents’ generation, I’m looking at you).
Nope, there’s no such implication. In all human cultures, there’s what the scholars call “culture common” and “culture specific.” It’s like cultural Venn Diagram that simply changes the commonality more or less depending on cross-cultural examinations. For a cultural norm that has existed for centuries, it plays a very powerful role even if the times are a changing in a universe that has shrunk to a globe.
Human cultures change.
What’s interesting to me is what stays and what goes in different places.