The Big Difference Between East Asians and Other Asians

Here's something I've noticed. What is the big difference between East Asians (China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, I will include Singapore since they have a big population of Ethnic Chinese. I might also include Vietnam (from the historical perspective, their culture is almost like China) and other Asians (Indonesia (has a small percentage of ethnic Chinese, Thailand (more ethnic Chinese whose intermarriage with the Thais made them more Thais), Malaysia (23.4 percent are Ethnic Chinese), Philippines, well you get the picture.
With East Asian countries, they to do things for the collective good. They care about their society than being individualistic. So that's the reason that when a government tells them to do something that's beneficial for them, they do it. That's the reason these countries are able to deal with this coronavirus effectively. But other countries, the people, all they care are themselves (I am talking about individualism). That's probably the reason despite the governments telling them to do this and that, and yet they don't follow. This is just my opinion based on knowing and interacting with different kinds of people and having lived in these countries. The thing is no system of thought is perfect, but sometimes we can learn from other cultures too and how they do things.
And this is one of the main reasons why I decided to stay here in Asia (Malaysia) instead of going home back to the US. I feel much safer here. They really take this problem really seriously here. No one thinks about their economy first. They think about the lives of the people first before anything else. What's the point of having an economy if a lot of lives are lost, if a lot of people are unhealthy. As I talked to someone who survived the swine flu, she told me that we might lose money or a job, but we can get them back, but health and life, these are things we cannot get back once we lose them.

Check the link to an article below to see the difference between how the US and Asia are handling the Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic.

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/im-back-home-in-the-u-s-from-asia-and-shocked-and-angered-that-all-americans-arent-taking-coronavirus-seriously/?fbclid=IwAR1pZaAuoRY66b27WoeM0ZvdwxFLFhlFJVxi21S8GL2Z2rThepzJ5q-tv2s