News / IS NOBLE WINNER SZOSTAK POLISH? [68]


This is my point exactly, I would never deem them a minority and have many proud friends whom are Jewish. My Dad has Askhenazi Greek-Jewish origin (I beleive he is 25%) but that probably isn't enough to count it upon me.

News / IS NOBLE WINNER SZOSTAK POLISH? [68]


"yours"? the last thing a Nobel Prize is awarded to is ethnicity and the intellectual who actually worked his/her ass of to get it. I am also French, you don't see me bragging about the 89+ Nobel prizes they have.

News / IS NOBLE WINNER SZOSTAK POLISH? [68]

Ok, now that it's landed on the Jewish topic I must intervene.

1. Ashkenazim is widespread and yes many jews is not most are Ashkenazi. They tend to have similar features as those of the Mediteranean (olive skin, dark hair/eyes). And yes, we have many of them here in Greece. I beleive close to 250,000 (with the pre-holocaust population being well over half a million)

2. No Ashkenazi does not give you special intelligence, 21% of ALL American Nobel laureates are Jewish, not internationally as you said. This isn't a surprise seeing as how there are currently over 20-25 million Jews in the US whome claim jewish ethnicity/religious stance. I have many friends whom are Ashkenazi, some are smart, others are averages, and some aren't so bright- just like people in your average ethnical group.

3. Saying that Ashkenazi's are smart because of continual persecution, insisting on eugenics killing all the dumb ones and all the smart ones being able to hide, wealthy enough to emigrate or pay off persecutions is extremely disrespectful and has absolutley no proof. Some idiots insist that this was the case of the holocaust, all the dumb Jews died and only the smart ones lived. That's such dumbfounded logic upon those fools.

Being at that, no I am not Jewish, but have many Ashkenazi Jewish friends (very nice people). I have also read a bit about Jewish history.

ps. Szostak is an agnostic/atheist as were his parents, and if you want to make a correlation, the vast majority of Nobel laureates worldwide are agnostic/atheist. They're smart enough to know that it's not religion or ethnicity that gets you intelligentsia.

News / IS NOBLE WINNER SZOSTAK POLISH? [68]

Ah, I've been expecting someone to post this. I have seen him speak in person. ^_^ A few years ago that was at the UChicago. Nonetheless he tells everyone he is American and every article reporting the Nobel prize win and his wikipedia article cite him as an American. Even if he did have Polish heritage, so many generations of his family were brought up in Canada and England especially. When I typed in SZOSTAK into an ancestry website it came up with heritage for Romania, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia. So you can't be sure.

Nonetheless though, Poland does currently have about a dozen Nobel laureates, be porud of that ^_^.

Love / Why are Polish, Slavic women so sensitive? [21]

Haha, you clearly have not gotten to meet some Russian women, or atleast Southern Slavs.

Life / Polish speed cameras [37]

Haha, yea, they have those all over the place in chicago. It really has improved driving conditions. But sometimes, some pissed drivers go over night and smash them, lol.

News / How do people react when you tell them you are Polish? [71]


hm, not really. I would rather like to think of Poland as a pure ethnicity rather than an overpopulated one.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonia

According to numbers, 185,000 residents of the chicago land area claim Polish ethnicity whilst the population of Chicago is 3 million, with the Chicagoland area being at over 8 million. Personally, I think the numbers of Poles here are quite low, and that the census ought to be retaken.

To add, people really haven't cared. When I tell them about the half Greek side, it usually starts a convo about history, the greek islands, or food. When I tell them about the Polish side, they go into culture, polish cities, and so forth. I would like to think what interests someone is someone who has an itnerest in culture, anthropology, and ethnicity to begin with. If not, then they probably won't care much to begin with regardless of where you come from.

News / Polish converts: When did you have your revelation? [29]

What this "Poland e" you speak of?

Life / Haunted Homes in Poland [173]

SeanBM is an arrogant atheist, too bad for him I'm an arrogant agnostic.

1. No, there is no true knowing of whether there is an afterlife or not.

2. No, there is no knowing of whether humans contain a force/spirit/soul or not.

3. No, the concept of God and the afterlife does not have to be what some priests wrote in some thick book. After all, if there is a God, who are humans to be the know it all's about him?

4. How can you fully prove there is no God or afterlife, just as one cannot fully prove that there is one. Which leads to Pascal's theorem, one cannot absolutely disprove something that doesn't even exist to begin with.

5. This human race needs to stop being so egocentric and thinking they know all about all. The universe and it's workings are an epically massive hole of which we have only dug a fraction at most. As Einstein once said, "We shall never know the truth to it all, for wonder and unknown always need exist."


My point exactly...

Life / Questions about Torun? [18]

1) Is it an expensive city to live in?
Not really.
2) Is the city alive? Is there a lot to do there?
Sure, lots. Shopping, bars/nightlife, historical attractions, etc.
3) What is the mentality of the people? (Are they city-sleekers?)
They are generally nice and welcoming, but not all are "city people".
4) I need to improve my polish, so I'm sure that the local universities offer polish learning courses to english-speaking people. Correct?
Yes.
5) IS IT A SAFE CITY?
Sure.
6) Any extra comments?
Nope.

Life / Haunted Homes in Poland [173]

Lol, what happens in the plachette (triangle) moves by itself? I've had that happen before for asking it a dull question. :-/

Love / Is Polish girls' beauty a myth? [78]


Haha, where do the hairy thighs come from?

Love / Is Polish girls' beauty a myth? [78]


I second that.

Love / Is Polish girls' beauty a myth? [78]

Well that's youth (or a proportion of it for that matter). However common philosophy and sociology have showed us that this behaviour does not benefit someone a lifetime.

Life / Haunted Homes in Poland [173]


You my friend should talk to Aristotle; he believes the same way you do. ^_^

Love / Is Polish girls' beauty a myth? [78]

As a half Greek and half Pole who has been to Poland many times I have managed to get into relationships with many Polish girls(just dates, and a few kisses :-p). Then again, idk whether I would be a foreigner or not- I speak the language, was born there, and have family there. But I have live in America practically my whole life. Truth is, you cut out Polish girls to be stuck up close minded raced people; when indeed that's not the truth. Why are so many immigrating outside of Poland, and why does Poland have so many half-Poles?

Obviously they're with Polish guys because of the love and romanticism behind it all; not because he's a Pole. There's nothing that says being a Polish guy makes you better at loving. There's the obvious factors though; that if your living in Poland, don't plan on emigrating, and speak only Polish, (like the majority of the population) then yes it does make it much easier and likely to be in a relationship with another Pole(rather than a foreigner who knows little about Polish culture and not a single word of Polish- like the most foreigners that come to Poland). But then again these factors and relationships exist in every country.

I'm really getting utterly tired of this thread, your making Poles look like animals who get together to get laid because of 'preferred genetic features' like some animals out in the forest. But truth is Poland is rich with romanticism and meaning/intellect behind love. It's why the country has one of the lowest divorce rates in Europe and why most Polish women have degrees and careers with bright minds, not going around like 'kurwas' like in some other countries...

Love / Is Polish girls' beauty a myth? [78]

You know with all these superior averages, more dominant genetics, national based preferences, and racial based generalizations- you should really read Hitler's "Mein Kampf", there are some staggering similarities. Of course he does for the German women/population what you do for the Slavic women/Slavs.

Life / Redheads in Poland - How many? [95]

Each and everyone I have ever seen (which were very few) have had theirs dyed.

Life / Haunted Homes in Poland [173]


If you don't believe in God then why do you believe in Ghosts/the afterlife? Do you have an alter meaning to that? And no, religion isn't just going into a cold building to be told by someone in a dress how to behave... I would say those are my philosophy courses at my relatively old stone walled school.

Love / THE TYPICAL POLISH WOMAN? [148]


As a half Greek and half Pole your wrong about almost all of these. Honestly, you claim that the men lose their virginity by having sex with a goat? What's wrong with you? Besides you'd probably get a horrible infection of E-Coli or some sort and die....

History / Are Poles the ones who understand Russians better than anyone? [35]

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Russians barely originated from Poles. Their genealogy includes many other eastern slavic tribes, turks, mongols, and even Germanics. Surely, while they are encompassed mostly of Slavic route, this does not mean it came from Poland. There are many different slavics. Russians might as well be related to any other Slavic state.

As far as your question goes, it deals with psychology not genetics. Maybe since Poles were under Soviet rule for nearly half a century? I doubt it, I better understand Russians because I have taken time to read books and take courses on their history and culture. Not because I'm Polish.....

Thirdly, the Slavics didn't all come from Ukraine, certain tribes might of, but not all of them.

Please study these map's of slavic origin. They are not all "the same".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slavic_europe.svg

In modern times, West Slavic is known to have genetic differences with East Slavic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slavarchaeology.png

Going back to ancient times, you'll see the slavic origins are different from east to west to south.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Origins_500A.png

During late Roman times, you'll see how these different tribes settled.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_Haplogroup_R1a_Y-DNA.svg

If you look at the gene distribution on Haplogroup R1a (the predominant Slavic gene) you'll see that it's quite widespread. The percentages indicated how many precent of that population has it within the given country.

Life / I'm an American who lived in Poland for 6 years. I'm not welcome anymore. [169]


You mean the less that 200,000? I live in Chicago, and yes it does make it hard to be a Polish immigrant trying to become a citizen.

Love / WHAT TRAITS DO POLISH WOMEN LOOK FOR IN A MAN? [48]


^_^

Anyway, anymore questions? I think this thread has been summed up for the post part. Right polonius?

Love / WHAT TRAITS DO POLISH WOMEN LOOK FOR IN A MAN? [48]


I googled...those forums don't exist...which is why they come on here. :-p

Love / WHAT TRAITS DO POLISH WOMEN LOOK FOR IN A MAN? [48]


Hi Polonius! I am a male as the symbol by by username points out. ^_^

As for your feedback questions, I really can't be accurate. This is all generalizing. Whether your looking at the 3 billion women of the world, the 250+ million of Europe, or simply the 17+ million of Poland, these rankings really can't attribute or describe each and everyone, or basically even a good number of them

However these attributes I would say belong to educated women, and I think that says the most. I have met both, but with educated women, they really don't differ where you are in Europe. Intelligence, logistics, and reasoning really takes you on one path that an education gives you.

Yet there are SOME things that tend to be more native to Polish women. (Being a Greek-Pole that has lived in Poland myself) I have realized that things such as family, religion, age, tend to be quite important in Polish women in general (even though there are obviously ones whom could care less about those things). Other than that, I would say that the rest of the traits really depend on the individual- the fact that they have Polish blood or grew up in the culture/country has nothing to do with it.

It's that psychological argument of nature vs. nurture. Nature would say- it's because they're Polish. Nurture would say they became the people they are with what they look for in (love let's say) because of their life experiences, the way they were taught and home grown by their parents, their education, personal events, and personal interests/perceptions. As you can see one is more descriptive and accurate than the other. Which is why from the fathers of psychology to modern psych, nurture tends to be the answer. Even to a question like yours.

Good day!

Love / WHAT TRAITS DO POLISH WOMEN LOOK FOR IN A MAN? [48]

I assume you wanted me to rank these? Well, I could, but I would be generalizing. Polish women aren't robots, each one is an individual and perceives each different in a distinct way. Just like the women in most, if not all countries. But overall (assumption based, not accurate) I would say:

2 physical attractiveness
8 libido
1 personality (sense of humour, gift of the gab, etc.)
4 education/intelligence
6 professional prestige
7 size of income
3 age
10 nationality
5 common goals and priorities
11 religion
9 family (eg nasty future mum-in law?)

It was really hard to rank these...I would say that most exist in the same rank, but since I had to rank each on individually I ended up pushing down a trait on the list as I went.

Life / Prescription Medicines - Do Polish doctors get Commission? [7]

It really depends on the person, their medical history, and the type/severity of the asthma they have. There really is no "general/equal" asthma treatment. Please read this:

asthma.bsd.uchicago.edu

mayoclinic.com/health/asthma/DS00021/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs

Love / Pick up lines - the Polish style [110]


What's with the racism man? Btw, sleazeball means an overly muscular fellow.

Life / The best Polish song ever! [23]

Best Polish songs ever are anything by Fryderyk Chopin.

lol sorry if that's a bit biased.

Love / Polish village girls vs big cities girls [37]


hahaha I died laughing!

But yes Polish village girls for the win. They simply seem more reformed. But then again I might just be generalizing.