User:Houshuang
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Norwegian, studying international development studies at UTSC, Toronto, Canada.
Pages I have created or take an interest in
All United World Colleges, since I went to the United World College of the Adriatic myself (I made the Template:United World Colleges). I grew up in Hamar, and studied near Trieste, then studied at the University of Oslo in Oslo and the University of Lund in Lund. I also lived in the Chinese cities of Wuhan and Hangzhou. I currently reside in Scarborough, Toronto, where I study at UTSC.
I started the articles on podsol, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Mullah Krekar, Stein Tĝnnesson, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, UWCAD, Hans-Peter Dürr and barefoot doctors.
Rant
I don't really know how many people even look at this page, but I thought I'd cross post a little rant from Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Orchard_Road:
I really disagree with the fact that Wikipedia should focus mainly on English speaking countries and cultures! I am a Norwegian, and I focus mainly on the English language Wikipedia, not the Norwegian one, because everyone in Norway speaks English (fact) and because the English one is so far ahead... For some of the bigger languages, like German, French etc, it is probable that they might slowly become very comprehensive as well, but if you think about smaller languages (Norwegian), African languages, etc - this is just not going to happen anytime soon (I myself am very sceptical to English being used everywhere, but I am also realistic - and so are many Norwegians - many significant articles about Norwegian people are longer in the English wikipedia than in the Norwegian one)... And finally; why should people in the anglophone countries be more interested in finding out about Oxford street than about Orchard road? I'd hope it would be the other way around. At least that is an ideal. Sorry for this rather long rant at perhaps the wrong location, but I really felt the need to express my belief that Wikipedia en., and hopefully all of the language versions, will be truly global and universal works of reference. THanks. Houshuang 18:05, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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