Right

As opposed to LEFT, right is typically recognized as symboizing the solar, masculine, progressive principle. It is the honorable side, the good side, the truthful and trustworthy; it is also associatied with daily activities, while the left tends more to the magical and supernatural. "In politics, the right corresponds to order, stability, authority, heirarchy, tradition, relative self-satisfaction, while the left represents dissatisfaction, protest, movement, a concern for justice and progress, freedom, innovation, and risk" (Julien, 350).


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