Why is Eastern Europe so socially conservative?

posted 2 years ago

sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.net

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Whenever I see opinion poll maps on :reddit-logo: from Europe with questions like

Would you be ok with your son/daughter dating a person of a different race?
Would you be comfortable with your son/daughter dating a member of the same sex?
My country has too many immigrants, yes or no?

There is always a very noticeable difference between Western and Eastern Europe, with the West (and Scandanavia) being WAY more progressive, and Eastern European / former Soviet states being exceedingly conservative, particularly countries like Czech.

Why is this?

Maybe I’m just naive but I would think that the legacy of the USSR would cause the exact opposite tendency.

I also have no real context as I have never stepped foot in The Old World.

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sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP

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2 years ago

This is exactly the materialist analysis/explanation I was looking for, thank you comrade :fidel-salute:

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Notabutler [she/her,comrade/them]@hexbear.net

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2 years ago

FR, everything else is just saying ‘well actually western europe is pretty bad though’ which is true but they dont have fucking LGBT exclusion zones

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