Name: Do our political views change as we get older?: 6 Minute English
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T18:35:54.000Z
Duration: 6 min 34 s
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Neil: Hello. This is 6 Minute English, I'm Neil.

Neil: Sam, do you remember the first time you voted?

very keen to do it. It would have been the

Neil: So, over the many, many, many years

Sam: … eh, not so much with the ‘manys’

Neil: In the very, very few years since then …

Neil: In the years since then, have your political

Sam: I think my political views are a lot

better informed now. I think the decisions

understanding of the political situation –

but I still generally agree with the same

things I did when I was younger, I think.

Neil: There is a belief that as we get older

political views and opinions. Is this true

could vote? Was it: A: 1929, B: 1950, or C: 1970.

about right – it was the decade in which

Neil: OK. Well, I will reveal the answer later

professor of politics at the University of

age affects our political views is a tricky

explanation is that people just generally

they get older and I think also that they

Neil: And what are the plausible explanations?

get older, we like to have more stability in

our lives, we don’t like change, in fact we

might be very idealistic. This means, for

older and more settled in our lives, do not

Prof. James Tilley: The question that age

affects our political views is a tricky one.

Neil: Professor Tilley goes on to explain

as their 'platform'. Professor Tilley says

status quo, they might be more attractive to

older people. 'The status quo' is a Latin

situation as it is now – that is, one that is

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