Do you parents have health insurance? That is a recent technology that used to be covered by charity, ie the church. If they didn't have, now state sponsored, healthcare, they may have stuck around.

Were they raised in government schools and instructed 10hrs a day to doubt their religion and hate their ancestors? Government.

Were they constantly bombarded by propaganda encouraging a hedonistic lifestyle and liberalism? Technology.

Were they members of an insular community comprised of families that traced their lineage hundreds of generations in the same geographic location or were they the products of suburbs, globalism, and integration? Technology AND government.