I suspect that's "individualism" more along the lines of the old bootstraps mentality, you are responsible for yourself approach versus perhaps a more liberal ethic of cooperation/more community based "you're a part of a larger whole" approach.
Certainly these are all broad sweeping generalizations that won't fit in every circumstance (notably, gay rights and abortion have turned traditional left/right roles in regards to intervention in society on their heads in the past 30-40 years); we can pick apart the specific differences, but I think there's still something of interest here, regarding the general outlook on the left and on the right, in relation to governance, society, family, etc.--particularly intriguing to me is just how high support for gay rights, abortion, and premarital sex is on the right (though I haven't dug into these stats, so who knows--but it does make one wonder if there's a more vocal minority within the right than actually represents all of the Republicans in the US--certainly some of them are having premarital sex, gay sex, and abortions!)
I noticed the gif is labeled "EU" in its title (European Union?), appears to have been posted by a Canadian, and in the comments and on the image it is sourced to a Brit--helps to keep in context that this is a broad generalization of right and left perspectives across the Western world, not specific to America, I'm thinking.
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Certainly these are all broad sweeping generalizations that won't fit in every circumstance (notably, gay rights and abortion have turned traditional left/right roles in regards to intervention in society on their heads in the past 30-40 years); we can pick apart the specific differences, but I think there's still something of interest here, regarding the general outlook on the left and on the right, in relation to governance, society, family, etc.--particularly intriguing to me is just how high support for gay rights, abortion, and premarital sex is on the right (though I haven't dug into these stats, so who knows--but it does make one wonder if there's a more vocal minority within the right than actually represents all of the Republicans in the US--certainly some of them are having premarital sex, gay sex, and abortions!)
I noticed the gif is labeled "EU" in its title (European Union?), appears to have been posted by a Canadian, and in the comments and on the image it is sourced to a Brit--helps to keep in context that this is a broad generalization of right and left perspectives across the Western world, not specific to America, I'm thinking.