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Why is Eastern Europe so socially conservative? (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/askchapo@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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[–] 2 points 3 years ago

social justice is not just beliefs held by the population, it rests on economic foundations which were swept away by the fall of the warsaw pact.

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