> If such deeply-held values can flip within 40 years... I'm afraid you've lost me...? > ...what does it mean to say one set is "Eastern" and one is "Western"

> If such deeply-held values can flip within 40 years... I'm afraid you've lost me...? > ...what does it mean to say one set is "Eastern" and one is "Western"? I suspect that's more of a historical convention than anything else. Probably would have used the term "Enlightenment" rather than "Western", myself.