Janda Vs. Aunt

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A responsible citizen’s duty in America starts with developing some kind of a political view as well as an opinion. . Living in American democracy it is important for a person to know their preference when it comes to the two major political parties. There are people out there who like the idea of no interest in politics or believe in something different than the two major political parties. Regardless of what one believes in there is always reasoning behind their beliefs. According to Janda the six characteristics that primarily make up a person’s political preference are education, income, region, ethnicity/race, religion and gender. Born in India, brought up in America, an Engineer by profession is my aunt who is a citizen of the United States by naturalization. Being a citizen of the United States she has her personal preference on the political party she is affiliated with.
Education is one thing that no one can take away from you. Janda states “that people with less education are more likely to support restrictions on abortion while people with more education are more likely to view abortion as a matter of a woman’s choice. From this statement one can say that the more education you have the more open your views are about abortion. Not only that you can also possibly come to a conclusion that being with being less supportive of abortion one might be bit of a conservative thinker. This has proven to be right and wrong in the case of an engineer who was interviewed for their stance on political party. Her belief was that being a woman there are endless amount of things that you may go through in life, for which she supports abortion. The surprising factor is that when given the choice between social order and personal freed...

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...female voters cast ballots for Barack Obama, while only 49 percent of the male voters did so. John McCain received support from 43 percent of the female voters and 48 percent of the male voters. This also did not as expected turn out to be true since her beliefs lay more towards the conservative side.
Regardless of the education, income, region, ethnicity/race, religion and gender of a person it makes sense to say that the general idea for all these characteristics may match however it doesn’t match in all cases. It’s needless to say that in many cases the comparison between Janda’s views and this aunt beliefs have been the exact opposite. So the classification of what a person’s beliefs are may vary from person to person. Janda may have the general ideas for what the “ideal” beliefs and views are though one can never be exact because of the difference in opinion.

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