What Were You Raised to Be?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I am interested in hearing what,if any,ideologies everyone hear has been raised.Were you raised a capitalist, socialist, conservative, liberal, etc?

More to the point,however,I am interested in knowing what it was like being raised that was in comparison to other viewpoints.So,hence,you would talk about what school and adolescence was like coming from your view point.
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Me,I don't have a remarkable story.Generally speaking I wasn't raised to be anything other than a normal "patriotic" American.However,despite this I always had a strong passion for "my country" and this led me to idolize Glenn Beck in my early teen years.I continued along this right-wing trend gaining ever more intensity until I reached a para-fascist like peak and discovered leftism.As soon as I learned what actual socialism was about I gradually abandoned my ultra-imperialistic views and turn over to leftism.

Life didn't change at all because while my brother knew about my political affiliations my other and father were more or less apolitical so they didn't care one way or the other.I never talked about politics in school so nothing changed there.
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So that is my story in a nutshell,what is yours? What were you raised to be? What sort of influence did your parents/caretakers exert over you and what was it like growing up because of said influence?

[Искра]

I'm raised to be the Czar of Earth.

[#FF0000]

my parents were like "whatever just read books nerd"

[ВАЛТЕР]

I wasn't raised to be anything as far as I can tell. My family only encouraged education and sports as well as socialization. Politically, they were generally left leaning and have never even brought up religion as I was growing up. My parents raised me objective and let me develop my own opinions as far as I can remember. (unless they used secret communist KGB brainwashing techniques)

I was however told that all people are equal and that I am not to hate anybody for what they are, or for what they believe, only for their actions. I was also told to never cower or avoid a confrontation, and to always say what I believe and people can take it how they want. However, they hated for me to talk about politics. They even still tell me to avoid politics and get upset when I say I talked to somebody about it but I don't care. They raised me this way so idk what they expected.

[Nox]

I guess you could say I was raised Liberal.

[Landsharks eat metal]

I think my dad tried to influence me to be a Republican at least a little bit, but he's pretty much to busy with work to care. My mom didn't really care as long as I am accepting and kind to others. I guess liberal, sort of, but she let me ultimately find my own way.

[Revolution starts with U]

I was raised to be an American Democrat. My skin crawls to this day when I hear republicans start talking politics... disgusting.
As a teenager I called myself an anarchist, even tho I had no idea what anarchy was or what anarchists were. I just liked freedom, personal expression, and telling the power-that-be to fuck off :D
When I got to college I started calling myself a socialist, even tho I was still just a Democrat, because of all the demonizations socialists recieved. It was more of "ya im a socialist, what of it?!" :laugh:
But then I started reading anarchist and socialist literature and realized that this whole time I had, in fact, been a socialist anarchist. All I had to do was shed my american exceptionalism, and realize that the things the democrats were trying to fix were inherent to the system. And that only revolutionary social change could fix that.

What's with all these "tell us about yourself threads?" :lol: I feel like we're really bonding :tt1:

[Smyg]

While my parents never cared about any particular economical system when it came to my upbringing, I was definitely raised to be a environmentalist, very anti-racist, pro-LGBT, anti-fundamentalist and vaguely anti-capitalist pacifist. Guess they didn't count on militant antifascism and anarcho-communism. :rolleyes:

[RedAnarchist]

I don't think there was any set ideology behind how my parents raised my siblings and myself. Generally, they raised us to be average people. My parents are (in the case of my mother, was) typical working class Labour supporters.

[LOLseph Stalin]

I wasn't raised as anything really. My family is largely non-political(except for believing in the NWO and 9/11 conspiracy stuff). They don't even vote. Anything I wanted to know about politics I had to find out myself.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I wasn't raised to be anything really I never really heard talk of politics much until I started becoming a commie, hell I was barely even raised by my parents. Although my distrust for authority may have been fostered by the fact that my dad hated the police and jails with a passion and was very vocal about that. My mom is a Democrat and I really haven't a clue what my dad is but he recently said that he thinks we should get out of the wars and use that money on jobs so there still may be hope.

[TheWhiteStreak]

When I was way younger my mom took me to church any chance she could. My dad didn't really do church, but he still tried to raise me to be a Christian. I didn't really understand anything political until I was in 4th grade which was when the Bush and Kerry elections were going on. Economically my parents really didn't have an opinion. They just saw the Republican party as the side that would uphold their religion. So in 4th grade I just followed their opinions. Then around 7th grade I started talking about how "We needed a revolution!" and I understood bad things were happening...I just didn't know what to support or do to fix them. Then in 9th grade I started getting into leftist philosophy and now I'd probably describe myself as an Anarcho-Communist now.

[Die Rote Fahne]

A Pentecostal Christian until I was 10ish and wasn't forced to go to church anymore. Then it was basically no particular political view.

[Ostrinski]

My mother never really tried to indoctrinate me with political/religious ideas. We didn't go to church and I never heard her talk about politics. When I was 14 I sorta got into conservatism but lost interest soon after. I got into leftism after reading Karl Marx during a philosophy phase I was going through.

[tfb]

My dad is conservative and my mom decided recently to stop paying attention to politics (after becoming a petite bourgeoise. Go figure), but voted for a conservative at least once and a liberal at least once. I think she forgot about the last election and missed voting. They were pro-lgbt and were both a bit against going to church (my dad's old priest turned out to be a child-rapist, my mom was excommunicated from her church). They didn't talk at all about politics. My dad started going on political rants recently, though, and it's really annoying. Especially if he sees a wind turbine. :rolleyes:

[Rafiq]

I was raised on the notion that I was being lied to at school regarding a lot of things, and perhaps that contributed to me shifting my politics toward revolutionary socialism, eventually. I was always cynical of what I was being taught at school.

[Luc]

My parents were so apolitical my first exposure was to socialism when I began reading about it:lol:

"Conservative? WTF is that?"

oh the good ol' days, ignorance was bliss

[Winkers Fons]

My mom and her family are all hardcore Republicans. I love them but they are just so damn close-minded! My mom tried to raise me as a christian but I was never really enthusiastic about it even as a young child.

My dad is an atheist but is also strongly authoritarian in his political views. He is also very anti-semitic so I guess you could call him a Nazi. It sucks because he is a very intelligent guy consumed by hate.

My father's family leans from liberal-democrat to socialist. My grandfather is the person who introduced me to leftist thought.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

My parental units weren't overtly political, although they had a low opinion of politicians, especially my mother who apparently refused to let a Tory MP kiss me as a baby.

Religion? We had absolutely none of that. While my parents weren't anti-theists, we never went to church, not even at times like Christmas. I think if my mother summed up religion in a word, it would be "silly".

In terms of discipline I'm happy to report that my parents leaned far towards the "liberal" end of the spectrum. I've heard all kinds of nightmare stories about other people whose parents were various kinds of disciplinarian, and frankly I think I would have fucking lost it with authoritarian parents, if the tales I'm told are anything to go by. Yay for liberal parenting!

They were also wonderfully tolerant of my obsessive nerdiness, outlandish hobbies and weird habits. I think I got lucky, thank fuck.

[Rooster]

Thankfully my parents didn't really give a shit. "Here's £1. Go out and don't come back till sundown".

Interestingly. I've met a bunch of people who have said that they influenced their parents, mostly into becoming evangelical Christians and what not. I can kinda see how a parent might want their children to be chaste and what have you, especially if they were already of the conservative type anyway.

[Tim Cornelis]

I wasn't raised politically at all, the only thing my parents thought me was acceptance of homosexuality.

[DarkPast]

My parents aren't religious so thankfully they didn't require me to suffer any such indoctrination (though in school I was discriminated against because of my outspoken atheism). On the ideological front, my parents didn't really try to indoctrinate me or anything, though they did teach me that all people are born equal, that money isn't the most important thing in the world, that racism is abhorrent and that life was better in the old Yugoslavia. They also taught me to be "a patriot, but not a nationalist" (meaning it's ok to be proud of your nation, but that you shouldn't use that as an excuse to repress people of other nationalities).

[MattShizzle]

I was raised liberal politically and generic non-church going Christian. By my late teens I was agnostic and borderline Socialist-liberal. Around age 30 I was full-fledged Atheist and just on the line between Socialist and Communist.

[Spets]

A racist bible thumping republican.

[Drosophila]

Conservative Republican Christian capitalist.

[El Louton]

My parents are both leftist/ Socialist. I guess my mums further to the left than my dad. My Granddad's is well known in unions and writes books on the history of unions. So I'm quite influenced. But Communism is mine. My mum is Christian my dad is atheist. I'm atheist too.

[RichardAWilson]

Political Moderate, Liberal Christian. I'm now a Left-wing Social-Democratic Humanist.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Wasn't raised to be anything politically. I used to go to church with my mother on occasion when I was very young. I always thought religion was a bunch of bull from a young age, during a religious assembly at school I told the minister that 'Man evolved from Apes'. Think my mum got a very angry call that day saying she was no welcome in church for raising a house of Athiests. Despite her converting to Catholicism when she became disabled, she seems proud of this incident, no idea why.

[kapitalyst]

I was raised to be a religious zealot and hardcore imperialist "conservative". When I was a kid, me and my friends used to talk about blowing up other countries for giving us 'trouble' (meaning even the slightest anti-American sentiment). :rolleyes:

However, my family was against hating others... Using the word "nigger" or "faggot" was a sure way to get your ass whipped and stand in the corner all night. Making fun of someone in public got you sent to the car and a lovely night of household chores and scolding... :crying:

When I got older, around 14 - 15, things got out of hand. Basically, my whole life that I knew fell apart (which wasn't much, as we were poor). I found myself out on my own at 16, and was working a crap job at a food warehouse... a job I could barely do because of my spinal problems and chronic pain. I flirted with leftist ideology during that time... became somewhat of a "hippie" and "rebel", and recreational drug user...

But it didn't take long until I snapped my head back into reality, and I kicked all the drug use. I made up my mind that I would not be beaten by the "system", and that personifying it as such was a negative attitude. I came to view it as more of a "game", and one that I could win. I sort of became apolitical around that time... either I could succeed, against the odds, and be a "capitalist", or I'd fail and have to embrace socialism. Needless to say, I still throw the dice and try to land on Boardwalk each day. :cool:

Now I'm a libertarian, and a laissez-faire Austrian School economist. I've actually changed my parents' views. We're still Christians, but embracing of science... as the two things are not mutually exclusive. You could probably accuse our foreign policy views of being "isolationist", except we promote free global trade with the international community. And I guess that about summarizes things...

[Seth]

My father was conservative and my mother was liberal. My father's thinking always made more sense to me, because I was raised in an evangelical Christian church. But after I pretty much lost interest in religion I went through a libertarian phase for a few years, and here I am.

[Susurrus]

My parents are both liberals to the point of being stereotypical. They are also somewhat ignorant, believing the American system to be the best, and occasionally saying things like "Russians like to be under authoritarian rule" and "Greeks are lazy because they retire early."

I was raised relatively non-biased, and I managed to resist religious indoctrination by basically not taking it any more seriously than play acting. I also basically realized that life has no meaning at age six and was fine with that. A couple years ago, I got into communism and anarchism, and here I am today.

[xub3rn00dlex]

Conservative Christian Future Goldmann-Sachs CEO :D