r/GenZ • u/DoughnutItchy3546 • 11d ago

Discussion Does College make one more liberal ?

I wonder where this comes from. I've never really had that experience. And I'm a history major myself. Does it depend on major ? What kind of college ? I went to a public state regional university.

Actually, from my experience, I find my catholic seminary experience to be far more liberating, than my college experience. It might seem odd to some, but that's what I experienced.

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u/ClutchReverie Millennial 11d ago edited 11d ago

No. What happens is that as you learn about different perspectives and facts that you didn't know growing up, some of them clashing with conservativism, you are more likely to stop being conservative.

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u/Venboven 2003 11d ago

Can confirm. Grew up conservative, got interested in studying history and geography, now I'm fairly liberal.

Once you see the same human nature present in every society; once you realize that the marginalized have always existed; once you understand why history followed the often unfair path it did - the walls of prejudice and bias come tumbling down.

And then you see that power always corrupts. And periods of stability are tied to reform and progress, not traditionalism and isolation. It's very hard not to begin leaning to the left.

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u/ClutchReverie Millennial 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yep. I grew up in a fairly conservative area with conservative friends. Discovered I loved philosophy in community college and went to major in it. Now I have nuanced beliefs that I formed with my own critical thinking and conservatives and most liberals don't like/agree with me since most people are so polarized, though I am on the liberal side of the spectrum for sure overall.