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How do Polish view others [116]
sounds gay ? what do you mean ? happy or homosexual ?
Someone said that french are very racists and south of France is so dangerous that policeman are aifraid to go there ?! Perhaps the criminal rate is high in one big city (Marseille), but it's not the civil war !!! no, really, south of France is a very good place (not everywhere of course ). I think parisian suburbs and north of france, it's worse.
French are not racist, but some of our politicians knows how to scared them, by saying that immigrants will steal there jobs if we still let them coming in our country.
The knowledge of French people about Poland and Poles are very bad ...( myself i'm ignorant, but next academic year, i'm going to study at Wroclaw uni, and I hope I will learn to know you better ! )
So, (and thanks to the media), for a lot of french, Poland come down to :
For the more ignorants : the polish plumber, john paul II and ultra catholicism country, which is a part of the Third World...
-People who read newspapers (not only watch TV for informations )knows a little more about Poland : 2 twins lead the country ( nobody know their too complicate name ) and they are close to the extrem rigth. And the only political thing currently which interest ( a little ) french media is the "witches haunt" towards former collaborators with communists, and missile shield of Bush, which give to Poland a very bad image of new "Troie horse" of the USA in Europe.
So, nowadays, french don't have very positive sight of polish,but it's due to their lack of knowledge of Poland . But it's not specify to Poland, it's the same thing for all the others news members of UE.
But french point of view about poland is more positive about History : a country which have suffer a lot, Solidarnosc and the fall of communism, poland and france have been very often allies during wars ...
But be careful at what I write : Each french doesn't think like I have describe it, and what I say is just what I feel when I read and hear media and when I speak with some people, (not all French !)
thank you
PS: and sorry for my english not very good, it's well-known, french doesn't know how learn foreign languages ...
