News / Ultra nationalist protest at death camp in Poland - serious mistake? [146]


That and his crowd of banner-waving freaks.


He, and the others who attended his crap will doubtless be prosecuted.


Those who actually check facts, and aren't just online bods.

News / Ultra nationalist protest at death camp in Poland - serious mistake? [146]

Fortunately, the police have been investigating Rybak etc (including recordings and photographs), and the evidence has now gone to the prosecutor. Hopefully they will deal with those attending the 'protest' according to the law.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]

Or wish they didn't.

And any sort of 'traditional' schooling isn't going to make the slightest difference to that. Avoiding certain issues, whether by home-schooling or selecting ones with a restricted curriculum isn't going to make anyone's kids into better people.

If anything, deliberately avoiding issues either encourages inhibition or just means that the kid turns out into a very rebellious young adult indeed.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]


Of course. Much better that they learn about all that from the internet.


The thing the most paranoid people probably dream about when they fall asleep and really really wish they didn't.

News / Poland exports 60 million tonnes of meat annually.. but.. [11]

If they're store cattle, any slaughtering (should things go wrong) would be at night since they've never seen daylight and being suddenly exposed to it would make them much harder to manage.


No surprises here, sadly.

Work / Poland is not the best country to get part time job with study? [59]

Have a look at a forum for Indians in Poland. There are several (I put links to 3 of them here on this forum once; they should be still here somewhere). The people there are probably the best people to answer your question about the legal aspects of students' part-time work.

I can confirm though that that there are overseas students (including from India) who work all year round. Many for UberEats and similar. Perhaps they do it as self-employed, perhaps not, perhaps there are exceptions for part-time work, perhaps not.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]

I doubt the schoolkids would know or care about which candidate the parents support. They'd be more interested in stories about Hollywood, hip hop, rappers and Kardashians.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]

A friend doing his teacher training, who was a Pole from Lwow, was doing his TP in a Polish high school near Warsaw. As soon as the kids heard his accent, they started yelling "go back to Russia". This was a teacher in the classroom. A child in the schoolyard would probably have it worse.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]

Russian, certainly yes.

American is too foreign, exotic and exciting.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Yes. It's an ongoing problem. It ends up taking almost every thread off topic and becomes dull very quickly.

There are already threads though about the Smolensk air accident. This ones about the various 11/11 parades.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]


It isn't meant to be. Meanwhile, schools operate, kids get taught, and teachers teach.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]

I'm sure most children get through their school day without any of your stabbings.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]

I think not so many in Germany, a country with a very good education system.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]


Are there many of those?

News / Anti Iranian conference in Poland [24]


There are some who pretend they'd love that. Can't be much fun at their house...


Ciemnogrod is a lovely word for an appalling concept.

In Iran, the educated urban population spend their time resisting this whereas the rurals outnumber them. The moral of this story is that the countryside is pretty on the outside and rotten within.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]


Hard to know what you mean by 'pc crowd' or 'PC BS' however the schools' parents were so angry that he wasn't invited back to the school in question, despite being the parish priest. They only allowed his curate to come after that. As far as 'lack of values' is concerned, the school's Director had strong enough values that she apologised to the parents by letter for what the guy had done. Criticising other countries' national diets, other people's physical appearance and countries' (especially Germany's) national traditions, music and literature isn't something that has any place in a school.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]

Another story about expat kids in a state primary school (just a few miles away fom Warsaw, in affluent commuter land, quite a few expat kids) is about the local priest coming to address the pupils. He had a list of the countries that the foreign or half foreign kids came from and proceeded to go down the list saying what he thought was wrong with the people from those countries and why he thought Poland was so much better.

There was quite an outcry in the local community about that one. A guy who used to post here a few years back had kids in that school at the time.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]


I think you'll find that as far as German/Polish families with kids in school go, that 60km doesn't mean much. Up in Kujawy, parts of Podlasie, Swietokrzyskie etc where there are few outsiders you won't find many families from outside the immediate area and that is reflected in the background of kids in school.

Even by the western border not every community has much real estate for sale and families with school-age kids live in places where they have access to housing or where one partner has roots.

A German's kids would be very much outsiders in most rural Polish schools.

Next excuse?

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]


Dolno, Gorlitz/zgorzelec is a border town. Go 'inland' to a small farming village with few outsiders and you'll find that not 'many' are from outside that village and it's environs.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]


That's Gorlitz/Zgorzelec, a very special case.


It was one little girl, and certainly not 'rubbish'.


If 'Mehmet' is from Turkey, none of those things will be remotely new to him. Even if Mohamed is from Saudi, he's probably smoked more hash than you will ever see (the place floats on it) and will certainly have driven across the bridge to Manama for a pints of beer and some mixed company.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]

Very Roman Catholic too, and not always in the best way. A friend (herself a devout Catholic) was appalled when the priest who comes into her childrens' school to teach religion told the kids not to play with a particular little girl because her parents were Protestant. This was just outside Warsaw too. Out in the boondocks the situation is unlikely to be much better.

News / Anti Iranian conference in Poland [24]


Their defence contractors are very big business. Wars hurt the majority and enrich the minority.

Life / If I move to a big city in Poland will I come across a lot of English speakers? [32]


Where (and when) was that? I've noticed a change over the last couple of decades or so.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


The Polish government.


Whether or not Poles want to remain in the EU.

Easy, really...

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


It's one of the more balanced news websites and certainly not 'fake news'. If, however, you read the post carefully, you'll notice that they're reporting on the poll rather than conducting it. The poll is an official one conducted by the Polish government.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Here's a report of another poll:
"A new survey by pollsters CBOS shows 92 per cent of the Polish population wants to remain in the EU, up three per cent on the last poll - with just eight per cent wanting to leave, down three per cent."


independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/poland-eu-membership-support-for-membership-courts-rule-of-law-mateusz-morawiecki-juncker-a8149876.html

Law / New Law Concerning Dual Citizenship in Poland [13]

Pretty well yes. The exact rule refers to the 'centre of vital interests'. This can be interpreted quite loosely; sometimes just having a car registered there is enough. If someone spends half their year in PL there's no issue of interpretation at all; they will have to pay.

Edit: some people avoid this by not entering or leaving Schengen via Polish airports, thereby leaving no proof that you're in PL. I won't comment on the legality or otherwise of doing that.

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]


Yes, kind of an Estuary Polish.


It gets more noticeable year on year.

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]


I like the way elderly and upper-class people born around Wilno speak. It reminds me of the Polish you hear in pre-war films.


Not that ambitious. I know many people from elsewhere who speak (and write) Polish very well, including high-level academic texts. They'd need proofreading (as any and every publishable or presented text written by a non-native of any language has to be), yet there are plenty of people who can do it.


Most Poles can only aspire to this. To understand any soul from any country takes intuition and a high degree of emotional intelligence. If it's even possible (c.f. the flawed narrator). Nevertheless, it's a beautiful aspiration to have. (And no, I'm not German!).

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]


I've found Poznan and Podlasie accents stand out the most, and sometimes Katowice people. In Warsaw it tends to be older people from across the river that have the Warsaw sibilant.


Mastering a language isn't about imitating someone from a particular country so they're indistinguishable from someone born there. Why would someone even do that?

It looks like you're confusing pronunciation with accent.

Becoming a proficient user of a language is about communicating effectively, being able to articulate feelings and nuanced opinions, understanding complex texts and utterances and and having a broad enough lexical range to function comfortably in society. Not about 'imitating'...