ABSTRACT
The reason for this is that as a result of cultural differences, citizens have quite different ideologies. An ideology can be described as all of those assumptions and ideas that a citizen holds which are then used to classify, order or generally make sense of their world. Ideology provides the framework in which judgments are made. For the artist, builder, scientist or agriculturalist, the view from the window was identical, but each judged what they saw differently. Each citizen’s ideology allowed them to see something different. The same is also true whenever one citizen interacts with another citizen. Some are seen to be wise whilst others are judged to be foolish. This judgment is a result of a citizen’s ideology based on those ideas that the citizen holds to be correct, true and right. This is their ideology and it provides the assumptions,
ideas and actions that allow one citizen to judge another as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, ‘good’ or ‘bad’, or ‘clever’ or ‘stupid’. Although many people do not talk about themselves in these terms, all citizens have an ideology, even if it is related to the best football team or the best soap. If a citizen holds a religious view or a political view on an issue, they are in fact adopting an ideological position. In theory a citizen’s views should be consistent, but in reality, many citizens’ views on other citizens and events are full of inconsistencies.
