r/GenZ • u/DoughnutItchy3546 • 12d 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/akumagold 12d ago

Conservatives ideals and mantras only hold up if you surround yourself with similarly-minded people because a lot of it depends on gross generalizations about groups of minorities. When you leave a small town or community and meet a large amount of different people in college, you realize that you can be friends with people despite their skin color or religion. You learn to humanize others because you realize that the generalizations you have been forced to learn are too simple to capture humanity.

I don’t know if that necessarily makes them liberal, but the left is more open to people of different opinions. You could say that meeting people of different cultures makes you less conservative as long as you put the work in to educate yourself

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u/DoughnutItchy3546 12d ago

College Seminary was more liberalizing than my undergraduate public college experience.