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Des Essientes   
6 Oct 2011
USA, Canada / Where do most Polish-Americans identify on the political spectrum? [142]

As far as I know, most Polish-Americans do not vote in Polish elections.

Quite right Billy. Even going with the conservative estimate of the Polish-American population at 10 million people that means that only one out of every 400 Polish-Americans voted in the 2007 Polish election.
Des Essientes   
6 Oct 2011
USA, Canada / Where do most Polish-Americans identify on the political spectrum? [142]

So how does this equate with them voting for Kaczynski (one of only two countries in the world to do so) in the last election?

There are at least 10,000,000 Polish-Americans. In 2007 27,000 Polish-Americans voted in Poland's national election of which 67% did vote for Kaczynski.

masterpage.com.pl/outlook/200710/disconnect.html

If you want to believe that the votes of 15,000 are representative of the political leanings of 10,000,000 then you really do want to be a dope.

By the way - care to prove your comments about "more affluent" and "more educated"?

It's a fact. Why don't you try to prove me wrong if you don't believe it.
Des Essientes   
5 Oct 2011
USA, Canada / Where do most Polish-Americans identify on the political spectrum? [142]

Polish-Americans were mostly stalwart supporters of the Democratic party for a long time and a scan of prominent Polish-American politicians today reveals that there are still more Democrats than Republicans among them. However Polish-Americans are now on average more affluent than most other ethnicities and this has probably resulted a higher percentage of them voting Republican than before, but Polish-Americans are now also on average more educated than most other ethnicities and Americans with advanced degrees tend to the Left even if they are wealthy. Unfortunately it seems that there are no poll results available online that give specific percentages of Polish-Americans on the Left and on the Right.
Des Essientes   
5 Oct 2011
Polonia / What similarities would you say there are between Poles and Mexicans? [132]

the eye of the beholder

If you live in the Southwest of the USA and have honestly never seen any beautiful Mexican woman with narrow waists, lucious bubble-butts, pillowy lips and dark gorgeous eyes and brows, then either you don't get out much or your eye's beholding function is broken, because I see them all the time here.
Des Essientes   
5 Oct 2011
Life / Are Polish people so chaotic and disorganized like Germans say? [89]

Propaganda to discredit Polish people

The claim that Polish people are chaotic and disorganized was indeed a tenet of Prussian propaganda used to justify their rule over Western Poland and it is still used by Germans, and others, to give them a feeling of superiority over Poles.
Des Essientes   
5 Oct 2011
Polonia / What similarities would you say there are between Poles and Mexicans? [132]

short overweight ladies (and men) I saw in the streets

This is true about alot of Mexicans, especially those with a preponderance of Native-American ancestry, but thankfully for them they don't all buy into the European notion of bodily aesthetics and so they find one another beautiful. However, even if we factor in these squat Mexicans the average of beauty in Mexico is still quite high, even by European standards, given all the stunning lookers an admixture of Spanish and Indian blood produces. See D.H. Lawrence's novel The Plumed Serpent for an Englishman's take on the special charms of the Mestizo.
Des Essientes   
5 Oct 2011
Polonia / What similarities would you say there are between Poles and Mexicans? [132]

I didn't say they were exclusively for Latinos.

Indeed, I was at an apartment this weekend, in coastal OC, and they had a pitbull, and after I left one of my friends told me that the guy living there was of Polish ancestry and so it seems that Polonia keeps both chihuahuas and pitbulls like our Mexican brethren.
Des Essientes   
3 Oct 2011
Polonia / What similarities would you say there are between Poles and Mexicans? [132]

This "biggest difference" makes Poles on average lighter skinned that Mexicans, but the two people are similiar in the ways that really count. Both live their lives with a certain beautiful Catholic style that is unknown amongst dreary puritainical Anglos.
Des Essientes   
30 Sep 2011
Life / Do Polish parents let/encourage their kids to **** outdoors? [40]

Dopeyandomine, you are an uneducated Scottish clown that knows very little about civilization as you demonstrate over and over again on this forum with your rudeness. I laugh at you. Hahahaha you are a joke! Poles **** on your face because you are a worm on the sidewalk.

PWEI, you are indulging your tendancy to project your disgusting pedophilic fantasies on others again. You sick scum.
Des Essientes   
28 Sep 2011
UK, Ireland / Culture shock (my neighbours in the UK are Polish and Slovak) [88]

All Gypsies are Roma. The Former term comes from the mistaken belief that they were originally from Egypt. Roma is what they call themselves and it is unrelated to the word "Rome" from which "Romania" derives. Romania, as Dacia, was under Roman rule for centuries and Rumanians speak a Latin based Romance language.
Des Essientes   
27 Sep 2011
Food / Is chocolate popular in Poland? [52]

"Haagen Daaz" is a made up name meant to evoke pleasant childhood memories. The two words are modeled the words "noggin" and "Oz".
Des Essientes   
25 Sep 2011
UK, Ireland / Why do so many Polish guys in the UK have a crew cut or buzz cut? [106]

What's all this crew cut anyway? This doesn't mean an all over number 1 or 2 does it?

In America that is called a "crewcut." Its name derives from college rowing-crews.

short but with a kind of flat quiff on top

In America that is called a "flat-top."
Des Essientes   
25 Sep 2011
History / Polish bombers over Berlin in 1939? [19]

Did you notice the colour of the newspaper? Yellowish

Pawain, you should be aware that the term "yellow journalism" doesn't come from the hue of the newspaper, but from the fact that sensationalist newspapers all published a comic strip called "Hogan's Alley" which featured a character called "the Yellow Kid". a toddler in a nightshirt whose constant goal was seeking out alcohol and cigars so he could get drunk and smoke.
Des Essientes   
25 Sep 2011
UK, Ireland / Why do so many Polish guys in the UK have a crew cut or buzz cut? [106]

King Athelstan, you should be grateful that Poles in Britain avoid being garish fashion victims. Poles are making your country a better looking place, and their coiffures are not alien to your island either as they have a precendent amongst your history's Roundheads.
Des Essientes   
24 Sep 2011
Food / Orange Roughy in Krakow? [9]

Orange Roughy can live to be 149 years old. Your next fillet may have been swimming the seas since before the Franco-Prussian War.