Abstract

Political shifts can happen between generations due to the different societal experiences each generation undergoes. The goal of our study is to discover the differences between the political alignment of Millennials and Gen Z-ers in the Philippines. To gather our data, we selected 12 participants from Holy Family Academy using stratified random sampling. Each participant is interviewed regarding their stance on different issues present in our country. After interpreting the gathered data, our findings reveal the impact of the different social, geographical, and cultural situation in the Philippines on the political alignments of Filipino Millennials and Gen Z-ers. Similar to the findings in Western countries, both Millennial and Generation Z members of the Philippines have left- wing political ideologies. However, in a predominantly Roman Catholic country, their religion has a strong influence on Filipinos when it comes to their political stance. Both generations are against abortion, and their political beliefs only deviate in their views of gay marriage, in which only Generation Z is in favor of As the first contextualized research regarding the political alignment of generations conducted in the Philippines, our research also serves as a reference for future researches in tackling political alignments in other locales.