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Why Polish aren't white??


ReservoirDog  - | 132  
27 Jan 2012 /  #181
This guy, in the Polish Parliament isn't white.

he is not in polish parliment. John Godson is.
JonnyM  11 | 2607  
27 Jan 2012 /  #182
not in polish parliment

That's true. He's a Warsaw councillor. For now...
Harry  
27 Jan 2012 /  #183
he is not in polish parliment.

Yes, he is on the Warsaw council. He's also the first openly gay person to be elected to office in Poland and I'm proud to say that I voted for him.
luckydog  
26 Apr 2013 /  #184
if poles were considered white,, as in pure, the 3rd reich wouldn't have killed so many of us. poles are slavs. and slavs aren't white
Ktos  15 | 432  
26 Apr 2013 /  #185
I'm Polish and have been living in America since i was a child, and i've heard this dozens of times

I don't know where you live but let's not exaggerate Americans are not that stupid, you are going overboard.
archiwum  12 | 122  
1 May 2013 /  #186
Last I heard Slavic people were an Indo-European group. Polish are Slavic.

Being common does not mean that you are not white. In General.
Wulkan  - | 3136  
1 May 2013 /  #187
Slavic people were an Indo-European group

so were Germanic people...
archiwum  12 | 122  
1 May 2013 /  #188
How did you guess! Yep!
Maybe  12 | 409  
1 May 2013 /  #189
I don't know where you live but let's not exaggerate Americans are not that stupid, you are going overboard.

youtu.be/Hp4iI59BfpQ

hmmm...some people beg to differ.
RevokeNice  15 | 1854  
2 May 2013 /  #190
Poles are white. Anyone indigenous to Europe is white.

This is basic stuff.
Wulkan  - | 3136  
3 May 2013 /  #191
Every once in a while I do hear from someone claiming that Italians and Poles are not white

Only Italians and Poles? what about Greek, Spaniards or Romanians?
kondzior  11 | 1027  
4 May 2013 /  #192
Well, Aryan race is dead for sure. Suicide. But Eastern Europe is full of pure white nations full of pure white racists.

The fact that the Slavs missed the Horowitz show the 60s/70s (because we were frozen in Stalinist ice) makes us very different from Western "white people".

So, don't worry, if you care about "white", the Slavs will carry that torch through the 21st century at least.
archiwum  12 | 122  
4 May 2013 /  #193
Like I said on another thread, the white elite in America yous to play off the different groups. that's what I see here.
David_18  65 | 966  
4 May 2013 /  #194
Wow did i just write something in the most stupid thread ever?
Henry R  - | 18  
24 Jun 2013 /  #195
Yes, he is on the Warsaw council. He's also the first openly gay person to be elected to office in Poland and I'm proud to say that I voted for him.

And what are you proud of???
pawian  219 | 24635  
24 Jun 2013 /  #196
Why Polish aren't white??

Because they are descendants of Lucy, the missing link as they say?:

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jon357  72 | 22786  
24 Jun 2013 /  #197
We're all descended from the apes, and before that from rat-like creates, however none of us are descended from Lucy. Not least because DNA evidence shows that none of her descendants are alive today.
LetsGetItRight  
7 Feb 2015 /  #198
Never heard this.... I'm a white American and I'm Caucasian. Caucasian, by definition, means that your family's is from Europe. The color of your skin is not your race, it's simply the color of your skin. Ask a white South African what their race is and watch the confusion when they say African American. Just slap the stupid out of them push on!!!!
Wulkan  - | 3136  
7 Feb 2015 /  #199
Ask a white South African what their race is and watch the confusion when they say African American.

What? Really?
texas09  - | 33  
8 Feb 2015 /  #200
Americans who think "white" only refers to "white Americans" are generally a couple tacos short of a combination plate. "White" refers to "caucasian," which.... surprise, surprise... comes from Europe. If you're a caucasian European, you're white. Probably whiter than many "white" Americans, since even many white Americans do have small percentages of African ancestry (particularly in the South). This demographic is also the most likely to be racist against African Americans. Oh, the irony.

Unfortunately, critical thinking and the ability to make connections has been a dying art in the US public school system, so I suppose it's no surprise that some Americans fail to make a connection between "caucasian Europeans born in Europe who THEN moved to the US" and "white Americans."

Although, I will say, that the WASP (White American Southern Protestant) is a cultural concept, and since it includes a race identifier, it may be the source of some of the confusion for some Americans.
Our World1  
17 Mar 2015 /  #201
I am an American born in USA & also Polish dual citizenship & I am white ,wonder then who established this country UFO from another world? or white Europeans ?!...hmmm come to think of who ever came with the idea about white americans so?! The native Americans ,Indians are too white lol...
CalmIt  
17 Mar 2015 /  #202
Wow...what a dumb thread "why aren't Poles white?" could it possibly be because the people you are talking about, like the Black man above for example, aren't ethnically Polish?!

Remember civically Polish and ethnically Polish are two different things completely, as per with any country. I have to laugh when Blacks here say "I am Black British" You will never be British, you're Black, how can you be?! 😂

Jeez, what a confused, messed up world we've become.
Wolo84  
27 Apr 2015 /  #203
So Ridiculous.
Wulkan  - | 3136  
28 Apr 2015 /  #204
Yep, welcome to Polishforums ;-)
singingfalls  3 | 50  
6 May 2015 /  #205
For your entertainment and totally off topic:

Just a side note. During the great migration of the turn of the last century it was very common to put your ethnic origins in the place of "Race" on the ships manifest.

And the second side note. Poland comes in second in quality of education in the world.
oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/00005000000
rozumiemnic  8 | 3866  
6 May 2015 /  #206
"I am Black British" You will never be British, you're Black, how can you be?! 😂

look if someone is born in the UK, four generations after their forbears came from the West Indies, has a British name and British accent. and British passport... then duh they are British.
HarriHasAbf  
6 May 2015 /  #207
Not if they are black. They will never be ethically British.
rozumiemnic  8 | 3866  
6 May 2015 /  #208
'ethnically' British is a meaningless term. As I said, British name, accent and birth and passport genearlly makes someone...........drumrollls....British.
It is not that hard to comprehend now is it?
HarriHasAbf  
6 May 2015 /  #209
I can't beileve you think Black people living here are British! Civically British, not ethnically British.
rozumiemnic  8 | 3866  
6 May 2015 /  #210
like i said 'ethnically British' is a meaningless term.

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