Talking Politics

I have always been fascinated by politics; it may come as no surprise that my major is political science. The cause and effect relationship between what occurs on a state or global level and how it effects people as individuals has always intrigued me.

So many factors go into shaping politics, ranging from natural disasters to progress in technology to human nature as a whole. Politics determine who possesses authority to govern and how much power they are allowed to exert. Even though politics plays such a key role in our globalized society, its study is often neglected as many people seem to overlook the impact politics have on their daily lives.

I owe this great level of fascination in politics to my father. I remember discussing politics with my father from an early age, although I didn't realize we were talking politics until I was older. My father, being from Poland, would always tell me how very different life in Poland was from the United States. My father would discuss differences in earning wages, the military service required of all Polish men, and even the threat of jail time for speaking out against the socialist government ruling his homeland at the time. Being raised in the United States, my father's stories always seemed strange to me. When I was older, I realized that all of the differences my father described could be attributed to politics. After realizing how much the quality of life in an area can differ based on politics alone, I became very interested in studying the subject further.

Whether we know it or not, politics play a crucial and major role in our current society.