Political Identity Frameworks

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Today, we live in a world where political views are based on identity rather than ideology. People are starting to strain away from the old ways of ideology and form a new identity that reflects their own beliefs and their own points of view. These political views are called political identity frameworks, and there are a number of factors that determine these identities. For instance, family, gender, race, region, ethnicity, political parties, etc., all this features contribute and determine our political attitudes and identity. In many parts of the world, these political identities are engaging and creating a lot of problems and discrimination. For instance, in America. There are a lot of concerns about these kinds of politics. Looking back …show more content…

I have done some research to validate his quotation, since I didn’t have much knowledge about the topic, and wasn’t familiar with some of the words that was stated. I dug a little, and from what I have discovered I find out that political ideology is fading away from political ideologies to political identity frameworks. Political ideology has been described as a set of related beliefs about political theory and policy held by an individual, group or a particular social class (Grimsley). Many people believe that political ideologies form the basis of how individuals or groups view the world around them and make sense of the proper role of government that is around them, while political identity is defined as an expression of an individual's belief system and social affiliations (Ramon). As I mentioned above there are number factors that construct the political identity, including race, nationality, where a person lives and a person's gender and sexuality. Some critics suggested that political identity is always associated with a group affiliations and describes the ways in which being a member of a particular group might express his/her political ideologies, opinions, and …show more content…

Most of U.S. ideologies tend to be very similar: almost every American believes in equal opportunity, and individual liberty and justice. When it comes to politics Republicans lean slightly to the right while Democrats lean to the left. The two parties have their ups and downs and have different opinions on some issues like abortions, gay marriage, immigration, etc. However, both parties share very similar core beliefs unlike other countries in world. In recent years, though, studies show that the two parties are not feeling comfortable with each other. This proves what Malik described in his writing when he said “today, political frameworks have fragmented and shaped by identity.” A PEW research stated that they conducted a survey about American politics, and what they found out was shocking. They concluded in their research that some Democrats do not feel good about Republican and Republicans feel the same. Just in the last election there was speculation that Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump’s supporters can’t even sit the same room. This also proves that American politics are fragmented and based on identity. Another important factor that proves politics is based on identity rather ideology is to look how Americans vote in their elections and what factors they look for such as candidate’s backgrounds, and party identifications and the many other identities that I have mentioned above. These all prove that

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