You said " a) They respect elders b) They give lots of importance to family values c) They believe in non-violence d) They are compassionate e) They are vegetarians%u201D
I have few experience with them, these are my observation: a) True. We to do that and they think we respect our elders. what%u2019s the big deal in that. b) True. So what? C) Partially true. They are just like us in that area. d) Could be true. Not sure of. e) They are vegetarians - False. Extremely few are vegetarians and those are Buddhists priests, they don't eat meat and 5 vegetarian food of lust that few Hindus and all Janis give up. Buddhists though they eat meat they claim them as vegetarians by saying they didn't kill the animal and they ate it since it was already killed. What logic... If they don't eat why would one kill an animal?
They have actually bent the Buddhism in sent a way that it has less meaning.