So yesterday in class we talked a lot about the Political Spectrum and the Political Compass. I came home last night and had a long conversation about it with my parents. As you might know, I am not one for all the Political Talk, so I didnt have much to attribute to the conversation except from what I learned in class, which was a lot. At the end of our conversation my dad turned to me and said, "So, what do you think you are?" Not knowing exactly how to answer that question, I quickly changed subjects, but in my mind, I could not stop thinking about it. I came to the conclusion that if I had to guess, I would be right where Ghandi is in the Liberal/Liberitarian quadrent. I just took the quiz on the Political Compass website, and it did tell me I was a Liberal/Liberitarian, but I was also kind of close to the middle. I would post my chart, but my computer froze right after I took it, so here is one I found right off of google. I am a little up and right of Nelson Mandela.
2 comments:
Wonderful and brave posting, Hannah.
I'm glad you talked to your parents about this. I wonder, did your parents reveal to you what their political leanings are?
Some parents have a strict policy of keeping it secret, not wanting to overly influence their children, while others feel a need to make sure their kids believe the same as they do, for various reasons.
Other parents may explicitly inform their kids because they feel that even if they keep their views silent, they may be giving off secret messages which relay their views anyhow.
I wonder what you and other students have encountered...
Well, my parents are not ones to talk about politics a lot, but if they have a strong view on a certian topic, they are not afraid to exclaim it. I generally know what their stances are, but they do want me to have my own views on certain aspects. I think that my views are the same as my parents because of how much they influence me, and so that kind of adds to how much their view on different subjects influence me.
The theory of the secret messages is very interesting to me, however, because of how much I do see that in the world of politics. I have encountered that even if a parent wants their children to have their own views, they will give certain hints to what they think and what they think that we should think. I think we will see a lot of this coming up in the next year, with the presidential election and our class's turning 18, that a lot of the kids in our class will be undecided so they will just go ahead and vote for whoever their parents are voting for, so that they do not have to actually worry about thinking which side they want to actually vote for for at least four more years.
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