Many people, myself included, have found themselves scratching their heads wondering how people have such vastly differing views of the same thing.  In the NPR article “When It Comes to Our Politics, Family Matters,” Shankar Vendantam invites us to consider the parallels of political views and parenting styles, the way in which we view family.  Vedantam focuses his reporting on human behavior and the social sciences and has written about how unconscious biases influence people.  Although this article was featured and the podcast aired in September 2016, during the middle of the heated run for presidency, it is still relevant because … well, as we all know, people are still scratching their heads, exasperated by the incomprehension of how people see things so differently from themselves.

I applied Vendantam's theory as I thought about all the people that I know and their accompanying points of view, and I found that there is indeed a parallel.  As the article states, real life is much more nuanced, but this will certainly pique the interest of anyone puzzled with the great divide as I have been.  After reading the article, I highly encourage you to play the audio podcast associated with it.  The added voices and sound bites with more extended coverage on this topic is very interesting.  This article is very much worth reading (and listening to) because it introduces a new perspective from which to view things, and it could help us have a better understanding of all people and where their views may be rooted.