Over the years, the People's Republic of China (hereinafter, PRC) has remained notorious for its explicit violation of international human rights standards. These norms, codified in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (hereinafter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights), define human rights as “the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family” (Universal Declaration) . Although this declaration seeks to cement a set of universal human rights in the international community, it does not take into account the idea of ​​cultural relativism and its effects on different cultural perspectives of human values. For the purposes of this essay, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be used to explicitly point out instances where China has challenged individual rights within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, while the West has remained compliant. This contrast of cultural relativism is supported by scholar Jack Donnelly's idea that “different civilizations or societies have different conceptions of human well-being. They therefore have a different attitude towards human rights” (67). This is further supported by scholars Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab's view that the UNHR can be seen as an ethnocentric document based on Western ideals of democracy and libertarian values. They state that it is “based on the notion of atomized individuals possessing certain unalienable rights in nature” (Pollis, Schwab 8). The idea that a code of universal human rights influenced primarily by a Western school of thought could be easily applicable to China and other Asian nations is naïve. It can be argued that this new standard for universal human rights within a global society operates under the concept of “coca colonization” (Huntington 28). Many in the West believe that the region... middle of the paper... China." Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 7.2 (2006): 111-20. Hein Online. Web. 17 November 2011." Human Rights Reports - China." U.S. Department of State, 2010. Web. 20 November 2011. Huntington, Samuel P. "The West Unique, Not Universal." Foreign Affairs 75.6 (1996): 28-46. JSTOR. Web. 17 November 2011.Preis, Ann-Belinda S. “Human Rights as Cultural Practice: An Anthropological Critique of Human Rights” 18.2 (1996): 286-315 Project MUSE November 17, 2011.Schwab, Peter, and Adamantia Pollis. cultural and ideological perspectives. Praeger, 1979. Print.Thompson, Kenneth W. and Asmarom Legesse. "Human Rights in African Political Culture." University of America, 1980. "The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 2011.