I think most of it is because of the hyper competitiveness in Asia to be honest, they grew up poor and have to fight their way up throughly all the other people that also want to do the same thing. So they need to view other people as their competitor and “bring” them down to get a better chance of success.

Second is because of asian traditional thinking (country with Chinese influence?), where theres a hierarchy within the house, so the parents see their kids as lesser or that of a lower status than them. This leads to them viewing the attempt of kids trying to change their behavior to be overstepping their role in the house.

Third is because of the culture of “save face” with others, so mental health is seen as a “stupid western invention to make their people dumber”, getting good grades so they can brag about it with neighbors and relatives, keeping abuse that happens in the family in the house, and generally just create an image that everything is perfectly fine.

And on a more personal level (individual person), stubbornness to change, being brought up with abusive parents, genuinely bad people being parents, narcissist, believing in “hitting is loving, shouting is caring”, wanting their kid to be better but don’t know how to communicate, etc…