have you inherited your parents' politics?

have made me the creature of the night I am today.

ah ah ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

but I'm only 16, I have a lot of learning to do.

and i am i suppose

that even if my parents were totally right-wing, i'd still have ended up left-wing myself, but i've just had the easy road with liberal parents meaning that i never had to challenge their views (or my views influenced by them) that much.

my stepfather came from a totally right-wing family however, and it wasn't until he was at university that he changed his party allegiances. i admire this quite a lot.

then again, my dad's family are mostly rednecks, but i would just never talk politics with them. a lot of me might be in reaction to this.

it at least means i'll never vote conservative, which is probably a good thing. i can just remember asking my dad about 98 "what's all this about then?" and he said, basically "tories are the bad guys who want to fuck everybody over, labour are good"

obviously, being a liberal, he would never vote labour these days because "they're supposed to be socialist and they're not!"

My parents read the Daily Express!

My parents are much better off now than when they raised me. We were quite a poor family when I was a child. I think school and other social interaction influences your politics more than your families income.

and now I'm middle. Has nothing to do with them though

i have one parent, whose politics are close to nonexistent.

...my mum's politics. more my grandparents who were quakers. my mum never really pushed anything on me, which i suppose is VERY liberal. but it was my grandmother who read the guardian, and it was her guardian that i read growing up, which has probably turned me into the psuedoleftyscum that i probably am today. that and growing up around quakers who are pretty liberal as far as relgious people go.

(predominatly white, predominantly university educated, predomintantly into indie music, predominantly between upper-working and middle-class and predominantly aged between 16 and 30)

tends towards liberal tendencies. Within that environment I think it'd take a lot more effort and rebellion to be right-wing than to be liberal.

as well as my mum. my mum sometimes says rather racist things but it's because she's not very intelligent and there's a language barrier in which she doesn't understand what hell she's saying.

i'm very much on the left side.

for being to centrist about the same time I joined the party.

I think it was more my C of E upbringing that made me more left wing

But I have radical differences from my Dad. We have broadly similar beliefs politically, yet we differ on details and on our willingness to give people the benefit of the doubt. He's less forgiving than me, which is probably a product of age as much as anything.

I am interested in culture, but not the same stuff as my parents. But I think if they hadn't encouraged me to read widely and provided me with books and recommendations then my cultural tastes wouldn't have developed to the same levels. My parents took me to art galleries and museums, bought me books, fed my interests. The funny thing is they never gave me anything musically: all my music taste sprung from what I found. But I find it difficult to imagine I would be the same person without them. I have a very good and deep relationship with them, which is something I'm lucky to have really.

so idk, probably huh

In just over a week's time, we're going on a walking holiday with switzerland. We're bringing all the books that I'll be studying on my Open University 20th Century Lit course next year, so we can read and discuss them.

^most middle class thing ever! possibly

they're both really nice people, and pretty liberal i guess. They don't really think about stuff like that too much, and they're not that into politics or anything, but as parents go i think they're pretty "alternative" much as i hate that word.

i've inherited his taste in music, comics, books, tv, food. politically, we agree on almost everything.

they're not massively 'into politics' but they're generally left wing and I am in exactly the same way I think.

They were more liberal than my friends parents about things like drinking, alcohol, drugs, staying out late, not being too pushy about exams etc, and as a result of that I'm pretty much a good-girl nerd. So I think they had the right idea.

My dad is an ex-communist and is always going on about how bad it is that his opinions have changed over time. He has some funny views about immigrants though, which is ironic as he is one. I think my parents always tried not to push their opinions on us, which is quite liberal I suppose.

Some of my dad's family are, he says, "fascists", including an uncle always referred to as "John the fascist" who he doesn't speak to.

My mum was a Daily Mail reading, gay-hating, immigrant blaming Tory, while my dad votes Lib Dem. How they managed to get on I don't know. Probably by not talking about politics I suppose.

Anyway, I attribute my liberal leanings to a combination of my father and from listening to certain bands/reading the NME as a teenager.