I am an international student from Japan.
Now I am taking a class about political communications in a graduate school in U.S.
At this class, I took the "World's Smallest Political Quiz,"
and I realized that I was a libertalian.
Strangely, people in my country seldom consider their own ideologies.
So, that was my first challenge to know my own ideology.
But, the Livertalian means neither the Republican nor the Democratic.
Therefore, if I were a U.S citizen, it would be hard for me to choose MacCain or Obama.
"Which is my better candidate?"
Anyway, I need more information to answer this question.
I will write my thought about candidates in this blog.
Also, I got some information about Media's ideological bias in my textbook today.
According to Povich (1996), "although they were limited to Washington journalists...22 percent said they were liberal, 39 percent liberal to moderate, 30 percent moderate, 7 percent moderate to conservative, and 2 percent conservative."
Before seeing such data, I thought liberal and conservative people of journalists were half and half. So, I was very surprised at the data.
I came up with following questions immediately.
"Why are most journalists liberal?"
"What ideology does each media have?"
"Can Media affect citizens' ideology?"
I will also write my thought about these questions in this blog.
(It has been just 7 years since 9/11. I hope the world would be more peaceful...)
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I'm Japanese living in deep southern area. My husband is Caucasian. The majority of his friends and family are republican. We happened to talk about Nobel Prize for Obama and war, and I found so many people in here support war and never doubt even a bit of "justice" to the wars.
I was not so interested in political topics but now I'm getting aware of where I'm at and who I am in this country. I think I'm more likely to be Libertarian like you. But I'm not sure what is Libertarian 100%. Can you explain me more?
And it does not seem that there are so many moderate people around me....like you said..I hope that statics you showed on this blog is true...lol
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