3 ms·

You don't choose your ideology, it's assigned by the tooth fairy when you lose your first tooth. Alternatively, it seems to have a significant genetic componen

You don't choose your ideology, it's assigned by the tooth fairy when you lose your first tooth. Alternatively, it seems to have a significant genetic component, and most of the rest will depend on the environment you grow up in. Choice isn't part of it, you don't evaluate all the possibilities and then pick the best one, you think the one you're part of is the best one because it intuitively made sense to you. The rest is rationalization.

tsimionescu 4y ago
Most people I know have the opposite ideology from their parents, who had the opposite ideology of their own. Many people change their ideologies throughout life, as incentives and personal experience pushes them (e.g. having a bad experience with a certain political party can often sour you to their whole ideology). It's true that I don't live in America, so maybe there is a difference, but you definitely are not describing a human truth.
- luckylion 4y ago
  Studies suggest that genes play a significant role, and obviously there's an environmental component (ie your upbringing, for which your parents are very important but many other factors play a role, too). Hence you generally take on the ideology around you, even if that may slowly shift between generations (but it seems that people also simply have a different mindset at 20 vs at 40, so when you ask them at 20, they're very different from their parents, but that often changes when they are in similar circumstances as their parents). Of course, some people do change their ideology later in life (which I don't think is the right term, because they don't actively change it, it's more that they change and their ideology is part of them), but that's not common, and overall it's remarkably stable.
  - newswasboring 4y ago
    Can you give me a few studies which show this genetic link? Because I would definitely be absolutely mind blown if its significant

tsimionescu 4y ago

Most people I know have the opposite ideology from their parents, who had the opposite ideology of their own. Many people change their ideologies throughout life, as incentives and personal experience pushes them (e.g. having a bad experience with a certain political party can often sour you to their whole ideology). It's true that I don't live in America, so maybe there is a difference, but you definitely are not describing a human truth.

luckylion 4y ago
Studies suggest that genes play a significant role, and obviously there's an environmental component (ie your upbringing, for which your parents are very important but many other factors play a role, too). Hence you generally take on the ideology around you, even if that may slowly shift between generations (but it seems that people also simply have a different mindset at 20 vs at 40, so when you ask them at 20, they're very different from their parents, but that often changes when they are in similar circumstances as their parents). Of course, some people do change their ideology later in life (which I don't think is the right term, because they don't actively change it, it's more that they change and their ideology is part of them), but that's not common, and overall it's remarkably stable.
- newswasboring 4y ago
  Can you give me a few studies which show this genetic link? Because I would definitely be absolutely mind blown if its significant