The right point-of-view?

I love my parents, but I find that there seems to be some tension between my father and I. He is normally a really nice guy, who has his beliefs and seems to take most things in stride. I respect and support him, but I can't help feeling that we are two totally different people whos personalities clash. There is one thing that we have in common, and thats the ability to forgive and forget. I let things go, and so does he and in this retrospect I can see how we were able to cope with each other over the years.
My father is a respected ex-cop who grew up in a poor fishing town called Pouch Cove where roughly 50 families resided. This made it so that nothing could be done without everyone knowing about it, and having such close ties to their community made rumers flow across town like a ocean swell. He lived in a life of constant scrutiny, where each family had to maintain an image of perfection in order to hold onto whatever social status the family had. Because of this, he was raised with high expectations to represent his sirname in everything he did.
The thing that bothers me most is the fact that he has such high expectations and regards me as a better person then everyone else my age. Everyone has problems, but the Hudson's! Now, i'm not saying that this is a horrible thing -its probably even a good way to think- I just wish he was a little less ignorant to the things around him. Having said that, maybe making assumptions through ignorance is better than overthinking, analizing, backtracking, and weighing the pros and cons only to find out a month down the road, that your current views on "right and wrong" are way different. Sometimes its just easier to stick to a belief, ignorant or not. In the end, our views will be ignorant anyway. Its all so confusing! Will I end up like him? In the end, will I have the same views as my father? Will my son look at me as an ignorant jerk?