germany hamburg in early 80 being called polish swine, (my answer to that : german swine)it worked:-) worked in zdf hamburg it was not easy at all, if not one Jewish lady(Spock polish) she helped alot. i must say that with time , it was getting easer. then migration to Australia, and if you think you know english? think egain! knowing and speaking!!! big dif , australians do not speak like erik bena. but once egain , with time i have learned every thing needed to be learned(still learning) fair amount of refugees related things!! right?
Reverse discrimination is the name of the game in the USA
Maybe. But we all take turns. The coloured ppl in the US have been subject to discrimination for centuries and now the white ppl are subject to it for a maximum of 8 years. After that it will probably be over. Just endure :)
O'Bama
Hm, you wouldn't say at first sight that Obama is Irish.
"Slavic" comes from the fact that the Romans used them as slaves?
Słowianin comes from the word 'słowo'
You both are right But the word Slave comes from Slowianin to say it like that.
Romans took Slovianins as captives and made them work for them, then most captured people were Slavs so the general word for captured workers became Slaves!
Then explain the great vowel shift, geniuses. Why is it SlAvic and not slave-ic? Show me some proof that the Romans were involved.
Why did the Romans, using Latin, use a Germanic word in slave to describe Polish/Slavic tribes? It's like a Scottish guy using a Japanese word to describe a Pole. Boku ha Porando jin desu, LOL
For the same reason why Poles are called 'Polacy' instead of 'Pole-acy'. The word 'Slav' doesn't come from 'slave' it's the word 'slave' that comes from 'Slav'.
And why do you think Japanese call Poland 'Porando' and not 'Porushuka'? because that's a transliteration of the English word for Poland.
1) So what is the problem then? Are you denying that Slavs used to be enslaved en masse in the past? In that case just go to Gniezno and look at the scenes from the life o Saint Adalbert of Prague - one of them was his protest against the passivity of Polish rules towards the continuing enslavement of now Christian Poles. And if you prefer something closer to our times, you can check what did the Trinitarian Order do for Poles and other Slavs in the 17th century.
2) Yes, I am Polish. 3) As I recall, katakana is used for loanwords.
Please, try and keep to the topic, which is: Should Poland let in refugees from USA ?
1) No denial here. But admitting the existence of sth doesn't translate to spurious claims about its historical origins.
2) Polish, ok
3) You recall well. Tori is hiragana (sorry, no Japanese syllabaries on my PC). Chikinu is katakana. Both mean chicken (tori means bird but is used for chicken too)
Southern will confirm that sclavus comes from sclabos (Greek word). Slavus (Latin for slave) was used in the 8th century in the Middle Ages. The Polish/Slavic root of that word came LONG before that.