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This user is interested in Russia and is capable of speaking in a Russian accent. |
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ObeliskBJM (born June 25, 1990 in Morristown, New Jersey) is a high school student who lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
[edit] About me
I am a third-year high school student at Haddonfield Memorial High School. Though I've used Wikipedia as a source of information for a few years, I only became a user in May 2006 and have contributed rather intermittently since then.
[edit] Political views and beliefs
I consider myself a social democrat with slight classical liberal tendencies. I support the renewal of the welfare state based on the realities of a globalized economy: namely, a greater emphasis on long-term and preventative rather than curative welfare policy. Free trade, in my mind, is ideally a positive force; however, in reality it cannot be expected to confer the benefits of globalization equally on the world's citizens.
Socially speaking, I support strong civil liberties, a progressive social policy, multiculturalism and the active protection of human rights.
I lend my political support to the Progressive faction of the Democratic Party.
[edit] Interests
My major academic interests are Romance languages - especially French, which I speak passably, and Portuguese, which I would like to learn - all things Russian, modern European history, and contemporary politics - particularly the politics of France, Russia, and the Britain.
Political topics which have been of particular interest to me over the past year have included the origins, modern transformation, and types of welfare states (The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism and Why We Need a New Welfare State, Gøsta Esping-Andersen), the progressive neo-liberalization of European socialist parties (In the Name of Social Democracy, Gerassimos Moschanos), France under the Third Republic, and Imperial Russian politics between 1905 and the October Revolution.
Non-academically, I spend a good deal of my time involved in geofiction. I enjoy watching Lost and also admit to the occasional viewing of Prime Minister's Questions.
[edit] Contributions
[edit] New pages
Hyla andersonii | The Possessed (play)
[edit] Existing pages
Social democracy | Democratic Party (United States) | Republican Party (United States) | Anti-French sentiment in the United States | Opposition to United States foreign policy
[edit] Miscellaneous
A selection of some of my favorite quotations:
"Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them."
- –Peter Ustinov
"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens – and then everybody disagrees."
- –Boris Marshalov
