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[Fmr. Emperor PiT]

Age: 21
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic compostion: White
Religion: Christian
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Where I was born: Zurich, Switzerland
Occupation: Student of linguistics at Zurich University
Languages I speak: (Swiss) German, English, French, some Italian and Swedish
Favorite President: I'm happy we've got a relatively weak government and no powerful president!
Favorite Sports team: EV Zug (Swiss ice hockey club), NE Xamax (Swiss soccer club)
My other interests: Sports in general and curling in particular, politics, (Germanic) linguistics

I'm new here but I've been following this forum for quite a while now. I like it.

     Welcome! I am part-Swiss myself. My folks are from Luzern, though.

[ZuWo]

Do you actually speak (some) German?

Luzern is a lovely city. I highly recommend anyone to visit it!

[JewCon]

Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic composition: Italian and Irish.
Religion: Roman Catholic
Height: 6'2
Weight: 178
Location: Staten Island, New York (College)
Where you were born: Deer Park, New York (Long Island)
Person(s) you most admire: Rudy Giuliani, Jack Kemp, Ronald W. Reagan,  Billy Kristol.
Favorite Band: Bruce Springsteen!
Favorite President: Ronald W. Reagan
Favorite Sports team: Yankees, Knicks, Giants, Rangers (Hockey)
Your other interests: Italian, Irish history. Catholicism. College Hoops.

[Fmr. Emperor PiT]

Do you actually speak (some) German?

Luzern is a lovely city. I highly recommend anyone to visit it!

     No, my family came here over a century ago. I'm thinking about taking German classes at some point, though.

[ZuWo]

A century ago many Swiss people, especially from rural areas in Switzerland, left the country as there was a great deal of poverty in certain regions and indeed many of them emigrated to the USA, where they could live in prosperity. Nice to see that your ties with Switzerland still exist.

[MOP]

Age: 15
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic compostion: European; (German) Swiss, English, Czech, other
Religion: Agnostic
Height: 5'6''
Weight: 110 lbs.
Location: Rural Lebanon, Missouri
Where you were born: Galesburg, Illinois
Occupation: Student
Person you most admire: ?
Favorite Band: None
Favorite President(s): Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt
Favorite Sports team: None
Your other interest(s): History

[Holmes]

I think I did this a while ago, I might as well update it.

Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic composition: White. British and German... very boring.
Religion: Atheist
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 187 lbs
Location: Timmins, ON in the summer, Toronto, ON during the school year. Living on campus, very close to Steeles Avenue.
Where you were born: Timmins, ON
Occupation: Right now I work at an equipment and machine rental company for the summer. Working alongside the mechanics. During the school year, I attend York University and study chemistry, and some biology starting in the fall (for a second teachable). Caution to everyone considering chemistry: don't. Unless you really want to.
Person you most admire: Person, eh... that's a tough one. There are a lot of influential and important people I can name, but I don't wanna sound boring. How about... Kristen Wiig? For the sole reason to turning SNL from a sh**tfest to bearable. That's an accomplishment.
Favorite Band: Have you ever gone through that phase where it's like, you only listen to one artist for a month or so? Or worse, only one album? Right now for me, it's Tegan and Sara, and I feel like I'm entering that phase. I gave their album "Sainthood" a listen on Friday, then I listened to it again, and again... and sh**t. I need to pull myself out. I also love Metric. A lot of Canadian bands are good.
Favorite President: Gosh, I dunno... LBJ passed some pretty significant legislation.
Favorite Sports team: Don't watch sports.
Your other interests: Love video games and manga. Kinda nerdy, no? Going out is also fun (kinda vague, I know, but I just like being out). Chemistry is also fun (I hate it during the school year though). Being gay is also pretty boss as well.

[Pacific Councillor Big Wiggly Style]

Being gay is also pretty boss as well.

LOL

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I think I did this a while ago, I might as well update it.

Age: 26
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic composition: Italian, Acadian, a bit of Mi'kmaq
Religion: Monotheist
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 230 lbs
Location: Toronto, about a KM away from Holmes.
Where you were born: Toronto
Occupation: Security Guard.
Person you most admire: A tie between Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley.
Favorite Band: I'm not that big on music.
Favorite President: I dont care much for US politics. Clinton?
Favorite Sports team: Don't watch sports.
Your other interests: Numbers. Astrophysics. Public Transit. Transportation in General. History, News.

[TJ in Wisco]

Age: 22
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic composition: German, Hungarian, Irish, English, Luxumbourgese
Religion: Catholic (Roman Rite)
Height: 6'2
Weight: 145
Location: Cleveland, OH (Case Western Reserve University)
Where you were born: Sandusky, OH (still my official residence)
Occupation: Master's Student: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Liquid Crystals (Chemical Engineering)
Person(s) you most admire: Pope Benedict XVI, my sophomore year roommate
Favorite President: William Henry Harrison
Favorite Sports team: Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Indians
Your other interests: Cross-Country Running, Hiking, Chemistry, Religion, Politics, Cleveland Sports (Die-hard Fan)

[asexual trans victimologist]

Er...hello everyone!

Age: 18
Gender: Male, biologically. Some gender issues.
Race/ethnic compostion: White with some faint Central Asian admixture. An eighth Jewish. Mostly Italian, Irish/British chop suey, Polish, Russian (that's where both the Jewish and the Central Asian admixture come in); some French, possibly German, possibly Romani.
Religion: Episcopalian, fairly high church; would probably be Catholic if not for a few specific ideological and organisational beefs I have with that church. Very interested in East Asian religious thought but not considering converting to anything.
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 185 lbs.
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts (staying with family in New Jersey for the summer though; I grew up in Vermont)
Where you were born: Franklin County, Massachusetts
Occupation: University student (History and Japanese)
Person you most admire: 'My mother' is a fairly hackneyed answer but in my case it's true. She's a progressive activist and lawyer. She's awesome.
Favorite Band: Dire Straits, Kajiura Yuki, Talking Heads, The Killers, Maaya Sakamoto, Leonard Cohen, Warren Zevon
Favorite President: I am fascinated by both Adamses, Arthur, and Coolidge as men (my New England bias showing), and I like the policies of both Roosevelts, Eisenhower, and in many but not all areas Carter, but I think that the greatest we ever had probably remains Lincoln. A fairly conventional answer, I know.
Favorite Sports team: Anything Boston/New England.
Your other interests: Books, tea, religion, classical music (especially piano and classical guitar), film, anime-when-it's-good, antiques, nature, agriculture, food, law...

[Holmes]

Location: Toronto, about a KM away from Holmes.

Why haven't we met up and had coffee or something? Granted I'm 8 hours from you during the summer, but yeah.

[JewCon]

Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic composition: Italian and Irish.
Religion: Roman Catholic
Height: 6'2
Weight: 185?
Location: Boston, Massachusetts (soon!) (Boston College)
Where you were born: Deer Park, New York (Long Island)
Person(s) you most admire: Rudy Giuliani, Jack Kemp, Ronald W. Reagan,  Billy Kristol.
Favorite Band: Bruce Springsteen!
Favorite President: Ronald W. Reagan
Favorite Sports team: Yankees, Knicks, Giants, Rangers (Hockey), Boston College Eagles.
Your other interests: Italian, Irish history. Catholicism. College Hoops

[Jackson]

Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic composition: Scots-Irish, Norwegian, Jewish, German, Polish.(TRUE MURICAN)
Religion: Agnostic(Atheist Baby Killer)
Height: 6'2
Weight: 189(JK, actually I'm a fat 300 lb+ basement dweller, ha ha.)
Location: Everett, Washington
Where you were born: Everett, Washington
Person(s) you most admire:All Democrats, everywhere
Favorite President: FDR
Your other interests:Friends, Athletics, Schoolwork, etc.

[Stoneberg]

Age: 22
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic composition: British of English/Irish/German/Indian (Asia) ancestry.
Religion: Agnostic
Height: 6'3
Weight: 195lbs
Location: Portugal
Where you were born: London, England
Person(s) you most admire: Robert F. Kennedy, Clement Atlee, Willy Brandt and Mike Gravel.
Favorite Band: Metallica
Favorite President: FDR or Jefferson
Favorite Sports team: Chelsea FC

[NVGonzalez]

Age: 21
Gender: M
Race/ethnic compostion: Full blood Mexican, consider myself Mexican-American
Religion: Raised Catholic, Agnostic
Height: 5´10
Weight: 180
Location: Reno, NV
Where you were born: Reno, NV
Occupation: Student
Person you most admire: FDR
Favorite Band: Nirvana
Favorite President: FDR
Favorite Sports team: Oakland Raiders, Oakland A´s, Barcelona FC, Club Atlas de Guadalajara, Mexico National Soccer team.
Your other interests: Politics, soccer, music.

[Rockefeller]

Seeing how I have been here for more than a year, I think that its time to introduce myself.

Age: Under 18
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic composition: White.  I am of English, French, and Dutch heritage.  I am one-eighth Cajun.
Religion: Christian-Church of Christ
Height: 6'1
Weight: 180
Location: Starkville, MS
Birthplace: Tupelo, MS
Occupation: Student
Person you most admire: My mom...duh?  Oh, and Nelson Rockefeller
Favorite band: Right now, I'm going through a bit of a Duran Duran phase (don't laugh at me)
Favorite president: Thomas Jefferson
Favorate sports team: Mississippi State Bulldogs, New Orleans Saints, Arsenal
Other interests: Fashion design

Fun Fact--Sometime during the 2011-2012 academic year, I will be serving a term as a United States Senate page under Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS)

[MJM58]

Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic compostion: White
Religion: Atheism
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 120 lbs
Location: New Jersey, USA (I will be in Dublin, Ireland, from Sept. 2011 to Dec. 2011, and then in Boston, MA, for most of the next few years).
Where you were born: New Jersey, USA
Occupation: Student
Person you most admire: Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, Barry Goldwater, Julian Assange, Jack Kevorkian, Gary Johnson, Cato the Younger
Favorite Band: Seether
Favorite President: Probably Thomas Jefferson, for his principles and beliefs.
Favorite Sports team: Philadelphia Eagles
Your other interests: Politics, philosophy, psychology, economics, social science, etc.

[Simfan34]

Age: 17
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic composition: Black African... Ethiopia and Ghana
Religion: Catholic (Church-going, but no literalist)
Height: 6'1/2"
Weight: 174 lbs
Location: Bergen, NJ
Where you were born: New York, NY
Occupation: Student
Person you most admire: Lee Kuan Yew, maybe... turned a swamp into, in my opinion, the world's all-around best country. Don't think that Singapore was destined to become what it is... look at Aden.
Favorite Band: Phoenix
Favorite President: Eisenhower
Favorite Sports team: Don't watch sports.
Your other interests: I like listening to symphonies. Going to the concert hall and stuff, politics, drawing things... yeah.

[Kuu ülevaade olulisematest]

Person you most admire: Lee Kuan Yew, maybe... turned a swamp into, in my opinion, the world's all-around best country. Don't think that Singapore was destined to become what it is... look at Aden.

Have you been to Singapore? It's nowhere near the best country in the world.

[Proud Lieberal from Northeast]

Person you most admire: Lee Kuan Yew, maybe... turned a swamp into, in my opinion, the world's all-around best country. Don't think that Singapore was destined to become what it is... look at Aden.

Have you been to Singapore? It's nowhere near the best country in the world.

Are you talking about a Disneyland with the Gallows?

[bore]

Age: under 18
Gender:Male
Race/ethnic composition: Scottish Italian
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Born: Cambridge, England
Person you most admire: Oskar Schindler, Aneurin Bevan
Favourite President: LBJ
Favourite Sports team: The famous Edinburgh Hibees

[Mynheer Peeperkorn von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe]

Hi, people. I'm from Uruguay, the unknown "Switzerland of America". I'm also an unseccesful student of International Studies and Political Science. As a freak of elections across the world (and "american" elections in particular), I've been reading the forum since a long time ago, incluiding the Atlasia funny nonsense (you should update the wiki).

My ideologý, if I have one, is very liberal in social issues (my country is historically the most secular in the continent) and kind of "third-way" in economics.  

I know I should sympathise with democrats (besauce of ideology), buy I prefer the republicans because they're nuts.

Forgive my poor english (I'm an excellent reader but a bad writer), and thank you Lief for your signature (any link with Uruguay or you just love Forlán ?). I will use a Massachusetts avatar 'cause my parents met and got married there.


Age: 26
Gender: Male (gay)
Race/ethnic compostion: Caucasian.
Religion: Agnostic.
Height: 1,81
Weight: Don't know.
Location: Uruguay.
Where you were born: Montevideo, Uruguay.
Occupation: Unemployed dandy.
Person you most admire: José Batlle y Ordóñez, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rimbaud, Max Weber, etc.
Favorite Band: Radiohead, Pixies, The Smiths, The Cure, Belle & Sebastian, The Kinks, The Who, Genesis of Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and a long etcétera.
Favorite President: John Adams and Nixon.
Favorite Sports team: Peñarol.
Your other interests: Social sciences, philosophy, literature, DC and Marvel comic books, music, the real football (soccer for you), series & films, otaku nonsense, etc.

[MOP]

Welcome to the forum, Peeperkorn! I'm glad you finally decided to join. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have.

[Mynheer Peeperkorn von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe]

Welcome to the forum, Peeperkorn! I'm glad you finally decided to join. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have.

Thank you