Singapore: Women are ‘more likely to believe on the woke side of things’. That’s what Ms Ng, a 30-year-old Singaporean who only wanted to be known by her surname, believes.
The finance executive identifies as politically conservative. “I think the left has become so far left that every moderate person becomes a conservative,” he told CNA.
In recent years, Mr. Ng has regularly received news from “conspiracy theorists” (in his own words) such as Alex Jones, a far-right US media personality and owner of the fake news website InfoWars. I have obtained it.
Some of his views are influenced by U.S. political concerns. For example, he believes that allowing a child to transition into another gender before reaching adulthood is “child abuse.”
He also has opinions that are completely controversial in Singapore. He believes the COVID-19 vaccine is dangerous and should not be taken, and he believes people should be free to say it without censorship.
Among his friends, most of whom are men, Ng found that men were more likely to share his views than women.
He is told that there is a growing group of young people around the world who align themselves with a right-wing, more conservative worldview. And they are moving away from their female peers, who are trending in the opposite direction toward a left-wing, more liberal worldview.
According to the Financial Times in January, this has created a “dramatic” ideological gap between young men and women, creating a “new global gender gap”.
And it overturns the established pattern that generations tend to act as one when it comes to politics and general ideology.
“Gen Z is not one generation, but two,” the British newspaper said, citing data from South Korea, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
In Singapore, despite the views of Ms Ng and other young people interviewed by CNA, surveys of the wider population show that this global gender gap does not seem to be prevalent here. It is shown.
Instead, there are pictures mixed in. One researcher even said the trend of young women becoming more liberal could be reversed in Singapore.
However, research shows that there are differences between men and women in how they think about issues such as racism, marriage, and child-rearing, which can influence political beliefs.