Islamosocialist
30th August 2011, 07:02
I'm curious, how many ideologies affect your life?
We tend to think of people of any given background as being surrounded by others of that background, but it's often not the case.
To give you an idea the sort of question I am asking, I will answer:
I grew up for the first part of my childhood in a socialist country that was previously great but near collapse.
My maternal grandmother was a very narrow-minded Muslim woman. She would vote for the most left-wing parties but she never lived those ideals. Even when I started dating, she would be furious if he wasn't from a house she could hit by spitting from her front step.
My father was very conservative. My mother once told me he even tried to convince her to veil all the time until my sister and I were born, then he changed a little. He was so gentle, though. He was such a good man. He was so respectful of my mother and always balanced her opinion to make his decisions.
My mother was very socialist but also very spiritual and Muslim. She read a lot. She was... if you could have met her, you would have thought, "You are far too much for your life. You should be something bigger, somewhere else!". My mother could have been a better Oprah.
My sister is not religious at all. She wouldn't know a Koran from a Torah at this stage. She has a daughter, born during the war. Locals will know what that implies. She is... not normal in her emotions. She has strange mood swings, my sister. Politically, she votes for whichever party is winning among Muslims in the polls. Her most important issue is security, she's very Republican that way--afraid of her own shadow, willing to sacrifice anything for feeling safer.
But, during the war, as they said, "During bombings, I would have felt safer with a lace curtain around my shoulders than without one!" I disagree completely with... accepting right-wing government for security purposes. Foolish. And counter-productive.
My husband is deeply religious but, thankfully, he usually votes for left-wing parties. We have some different views. He is FAR more financially liberal than I am. And he is far more socially conservative than I am. But both of us would be too liberal for the Democrats in America.
So, I would say I am surrounded by:
"Anything but what we've had since socialism collapsed": 99%
Socialism: 0.5%
Liberal Democracy: 0.5%
Ha!
And what about you?
Do you have any conflicts from these differences? How do you handle them?
Please, share as much as you're comfortable!
We tend to think of people of any given background as being surrounded by others of that background, but it's often not the case.
To give you an idea the sort of question I am asking, I will answer:
I grew up for the first part of my childhood in a socialist country that was previously great but near collapse.
My maternal grandmother was a very narrow-minded Muslim woman. She would vote for the most left-wing parties but she never lived those ideals. Even when I started dating, she would be furious if he wasn't from a house she could hit by spitting from her front step.
My father was very conservative. My mother once told me he even tried to convince her to veil all the time until my sister and I were born, then he changed a little. He was so gentle, though. He was such a good man. He was so respectful of my mother and always balanced her opinion to make his decisions.
My mother was very socialist but also very spiritual and Muslim. She read a lot. She was... if you could have met her, you would have thought, "You are far too much for your life. You should be something bigger, somewhere else!". My mother could have been a better Oprah.
My sister is not religious at all. She wouldn't know a Koran from a Torah at this stage. She has a daughter, born during the war. Locals will know what that implies. She is... not normal in her emotions. She has strange mood swings, my sister. Politically, she votes for whichever party is winning among Muslims in the polls. Her most important issue is security, she's very Republican that way--afraid of her own shadow, willing to sacrifice anything for feeling safer.
But, during the war, as they said, "During bombings, I would have felt safer with a lace curtain around my shoulders than without one!" I disagree completely with... accepting right-wing government for security purposes. Foolish. And counter-productive.
My husband is deeply religious but, thankfully, he usually votes for left-wing parties. We have some different views. He is FAR more financially liberal than I am. And he is far more socially conservative than I am. But both of us would be too liberal for the Democrats in America.
So, I would say I am surrounded by:
"Anything but what we've had since socialism collapsed": 99%
Socialism: 0.5%
Liberal Democracy: 0.5%
Ha!
And what about you?
Do you have any conflicts from these differences? How do you handle them?
Please, share as much as you're comfortable!