What on earth are you blabbing about? Because 2 billion Asians have an ingrained respect for elders means 1) they are the only ones doing it right and 2) I should too? In a simplistic form, you do realize that one of the major reasons America even exists and has become as powerful as it has is because it has rejected old world traditions for more innovative ones.

There are a billion Chinese who are okay with an authoritarian government. Maybe we should be more like them because they clearly are doing it right.

I still don't give respect to my elders solely because they have been breathing longer than me. It's not hard. Billions of people live every day. You make the mistake of assuming that the opposite of "I don't respect my elders solely because they are old" is "I default to disrespecting everyone." That isnt how words work.