False i believe it's china
William McKinley won in 1896 in part due to newspapers covering the election.
I believe the answer is: No, depressed people in Eastern cultures do not devalue themselves like depressed people in Western cultures.
Eastern culture place a really high value on hardwork more than the western culture. So, people in eastern culture tend to see the act of succumbing to depression as being weak, which make them tend to deal it by working even harder to accomplish positive in life.