What's the Need for Student Agency?

In cultures where student agency is not encouraged, how do we navigate this cultural difference? Some people talk about it in terms of a collectivist societies versus individual individualistic societies. But when we unpack that alittle bit, there's still a need to be agentic in one's own way. Even even in families where parents want their children to behave and follow the rules,. ther there is still typically a desire to have that done authentically.