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Paulina   
8 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

The problem is that people like "szczecinianin" directly contribute to the problems that we're talking about.

I'm not going to discuss personal life of members. I think you both should stop making it so personal.

You see? I think it's the communist system and mentality that created this inability in many people. Of course not in all of them. For some people it's just their nature, character, upbringing, the conditions they grew up in or whatever. But still...

Many people in Poland earn little, probably peanuts in comparison to Western countries (there wouldn't be so many Poles emigrating to the West if it wasn't the case and I've read and heard so many times about higher wages in the West).

Also they don't lie about their income, they don't get any illegal income or whatever either.

I remember going to work in -15c in my first winter here and really suffering because of it - I had never experienced such temperatures and it would've made much more sense to stay at home in my view. Or I remember last year, going to two very important meetings despite being really sick - I had no choice, if I didn't go, then I would've been worse off today because of it.

That's nothing unusual, it's a norm. People are afraid of getting sick and if they do get sick they go to work anyway and make others sick. Because noone wants to loose their jobs. My mum told me about a woman she knows who has osteoporosis and she broke her both legs. Her boss called her and told her that if she doesn't come back right now she'll get fired. How is she supposed to do that? I think she's over 50, how is she supposed to find work if she gets fired?

But I'm explicitly talking about those who were in fine health and had no real commitments of their own - these people now in their early/mid 50's had a great position in life, not least because they lived in a time when careers were made.

The 90's in Poland were a bit like Wild Wild West, people who had the right mindset for those times made it (and yes, people who were sleazy scumballs in the times of PRL could have easily made it in the 90's too). But I don't think those were great numbers of people. I think many got screwed in a way, because all those workers who fought in the ranks of Solidarity, for example from the Gdańsk shipyard, lost their jobs. Plenty of state owned firms, factories either collapsed entirely or had to fire a lot of people. I remember those times, delph. Those were hard times. $hitty times for many people.

Sometimes life is simply hard. People get born where they get born, in the times they didn't choose and they work their asses off and often they don't have really that much influence on what will happen to them. The 90's in Russia were worse than in Poland. Yes, some oligarchs got insanely rich then, but majority of people got very poor. Humiliatingly so, from what I've been told by Russians who lived through those times. So I can't really blame people who are bitter.

That's not their fault they grew up in a system that didn't prepare them in any way for what was coming.
Sometimes life is simply a b*tch. And then you die ;)

And about careers to be made. Not everybody can make a "career". Someone has to do those mundane jobs, work in factories, etc. so others could make ridiculously big money for "managing" them ;) That's how it is all around the world. And the poorer the country the more the lives of those who do those mundane jobs suck. That's a fact of life. I wouldn't tell off someone who complains about life if he's/she's a factory worker in Poland or a brick maker in India, etc. That would be arrogant, in my opinion. Some people have harder lives than you and me. And they have reasons to complain. That's a human thing.

No-one ever said that poor people were bad people, only that if they complain about the situation, then they should start by looking at themselves.

I disagree. It's not that simple, delph, imho.
Paulina   
8 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

Delph, I think you're simplifying things just as szczecinianin is with those "communist big-wigs".

You don't live in the real world, do you, Delphi.

You really have no clue about a country you live in and most of all about life.

I agree to some degree with szczecinianin and Toro, delph... As much as I like you and the fact that you defend Poland and Poles from time to time on this forum, there's some truth to what they write, in my humble opinion of a Pole living in Poland (and who lived through the transformation period, not just read about it) ;)

I think we all know that there were a significant amount of people in the PRL who were very happy with the way things were - they had a flat, a job that they couldn't be fired from for incompetence, they had their subsidised holidays and an existence that was predictable. Those people are the ones now crying and whining because they aren't rich - although they did nothing to get rich.

People who were content to rot away in a PRL factory don't deserve any more, and nor should they get more.

Delph, you have no idea about those people. Whether they were "content" about anything (who were the members of Solidarity? Who was Lech Wałęsa? Who supported Solidarity?). And what they're "crying and whining" about and whether they're doing it at all.

There is some truth to what you write but at the same time you're very judgemental and, I don't know, you seem not to have much idea about life in Poland if that makes any sense...

Also, in my opinion Szczecinianin is right in a way about another thing too - you probably know how many years a Pole would have to study to become a teacher of your language... And you're a native speaker of English... Nobody will embrace great numbers of Poles in other countries so they could teach Polish to people all around the world lol So native speakers of English are lucky in a way. You got lucky. I'm sure it was also your hard work and talent that was important too. However, I think you should get off your high horse a little :P
Paulina   
1 Sep 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

Don't put words in my mouth, Paulina...

I'm not. You wrote it. You want me to quote?

Poland was occupied = Polish version of history
Poland was annexed = History version of the rest of the world

TheOther, what on Earth are you talking about??? ;D LOL!

You won't change that.

TheOther, answer my question, please. Have you ever read my history text-book I studied from at school? Do you have any idea what was written there?

It doesn't mean much, so I'm not sure why people have a problem with it

Who has a problem with it? :D

Annexation wouldn't support the popular picture of a continuous Polish nation stretching from the early beginnings, over the time of the partitions to modern day Poland.

What? What the hell are you talking about?! xD Why wouldn't it support it??
Paulina   
1 Sep 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

1835

1835?
Is it this one?:
diaph16.free.fr/chopin//chopin7.htm

Also, he was known to have had problems with the Russian embassy in Vienna not wanting to give him a passport for travelling to France.

Was that when the November Uprising began?
Paulina   
1 Sep 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

because we are slowly drifting off topic

As usual on this forum.

Mandatory school was introduced in Prussia in 1717, so long before the partitions. Ethnic Poles were given the same educational "treatment" as their ethnic German counterparts; especially in the 19th and 20th century.

Meaning - they had to study in German, German history from the German point of view, German literature, to study religion and pray in German.

Have you heard about the strike of students from Września?

The Preussische Ansiedlungskommission was founded in 1886. That's almost a hundred years after Polish territory became Prussian. Bismarck's Kulturkampf only lasted 12 years. That's a fraction of the time that Poles lived under Prussian rule.

And for how long Poles couldn't build a house on their land?

I'm sure that Poles would live like the Sorbs in Eastern Germany. Keeping their language and culture.

I'm not sure. It was a different situation, Poles weren't such a tiny minority like Sorbs and they had their own country before and they wanted to get it back. What if Germans decided that they were too dangerous and they just had to be Germanised?

It's the world's version of history vs. the Polish... :)

Wow... Woooah... Really? I must say my jaw just dropped to the floor o_O
German and Russian version of history is... "the world's version of history"? :D My God, TheOther...
Your arrogance is mind-blowing... o_O

Tell me, TheOther, have you ever read my history text-book I studied from at school? Do you have any idea what was written there?

Hi! My comments to your post were only re Chopin's passport and the rest of my message was more general.

Your "general" message was useless, because we already discussed this issue on previous pages. You would know that if you had read them.

You would also know my opinion about Chopin's nationality and you wouldn't make a fool of yourself and you wouldn't write about "masturbating my brain", you arrogant and ignorant man.

I'm writing about your ignorance because you wrote "it is normal that he first of all spoke French". Where did you get that he "first of all spoke French"? Have you read his letters? His Polish was more beautiful and sophisticated than mine! LOL He grew up in Poland, ffs! ;D

Honestly, some Westerners... are.. wow...

What I meant was that your question as to when his first French passport was issued is completely irrelevant

Polforeigner, have mercy on yourself and stop writing already ;D You have absolutely no idea why I was asking about his passport... lol
Oh dear...

*sigh*
Paulina   
31 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

@Paulina: it does not matter when Chopin's first French passport was issued since according to French law (at least until a few years ago), the French nationality is automatically issued at birth to whomever has a French father.

I am aware of that, Harry explained it to me, but I'm asking about his first French passport :)

You haven't read absolutely anything of what I have written in this thread (beside my questions about passports, of course lol), have you? :)))
Typical.

Btw, today is the Day of Solidarity and Freedom :)
Paulina   
31 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

That isn't his first French passport.

When was the first issued then?

I have no idea as to what Russian policy in the 1830s was with regard to giving passports to people born in what had recently become (in their eyes) part of the Russian empire.

How do you know he had a Russian passport then?

As for not bowing the knee - at least in the Austrian and German sectors, we saw Poles owning businesses, going to universities, etc etc. I believe they enjoyed relative freedom in the Austrian sector too - Lwów and Kraków certainly flourished under Austrian administration.

Oh, but Warsaw had sewers thanks to Russian partition! Did you know that?? Every Russian nationalist will tell you that! So Warsaw "flourished" too...

lol
Although there is a gradation, of course, the Austrian partition is seen as the best of the three partitions, then comes the German one and Russian is considered the worst.

Sure, TheOther, my forebears were farmers too, just living in the Russian partition. Most of them probably didn't experience any Russification either because... they didn't go to school. They couldn't read nor write.

I suspect they had good relations with neighbours too, although I don't know if any of them were Russians. I don't think Russians had the same policy as Germans - I'm talking about the Prussian Settlement Commission.

If you ask Poles about the PRL times they'll tell you they didn't have anything against Russians either, just against their state...

However, both Germanisation and Russification were historical facts.
And if those succeeded and Poland didn't regain independence there would be no Poland anymore and who knows, maybe there would be no Poles either. I know it wouldn't be a problem for you, delphiandomine, Harry, AdamKadmon, etc. But I am so happy they didn't succeed. I'm glad Poland remained Poland and Poles remained Poles. I'm even more happy about it when I read comments from people like you, delph and AdamKadmon :)

Sorry, I just had to share my joy ;) We've won in the end! :P Ain't that grand or what? ;)

Fits with the romantic ideals over pragmatism.

Pragmatism won in the end, of course. It was called "organic work". That's what every Polish kid learns at school. But how would you know that? You didn't go to Polish school :)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_work

The only uprisings that succeeded were those in the German partition, with the last one being:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Poland_Uprising_(1918%E2%80%9319)

Or Slovenia, or Croatia, or many other countries that are new.

Poland isn't "new". It existed before the partitions.

Are we talking about the people or the country?

The lack of a country doesn't stop the history of the people from existing. Poland may have vanished from the map, but the people were still Polish.

Nationality isn't tied to the presence of a nation state.

Well, that's one way of looking at it. Still, in Polish schools we don't have seperate history textbooks titled "The histoy of Poland" and then "The history of Polish People" and then again - "The history of Poland" ;)

The Polish version of history is always correct?

The German/Western/Russian version of history is always correct? :)
Paulina   
31 Aug 2013
Study / MBA in Poland for 40+ and older? [62]

I think it was more of the case with very desirable fields - for instance, I think Spanish a few years ago was pushing 90 points for entry.

It wasn't about an entry exam in case of that German professor.

If the exam was administered at the course level, then there would be huge temptation to simply pay for private classes with a professor

I haven't heard about "private classes" with professors preparing for the exams, only about those organised by the universities. Paid for, of course :) I suppose they could be helpful, if only by letting people know what more or less they could face at the exam. So I guess people attending those could have an advantage.

I know it still happens with desirable high schools where the ability to 'insert' a student is still possible. It might not be outright bribery, but you get the idea. For me, it's the worst sort of corruption - because it is very hard to prove wrongdoing.

True, I guess. You've heard about this happening?

I think the problem with this course is that it's very tough going without giving you 'papers'

I'm sorry, I don't understand...

But for me, it all goes back to the entry requirements - it just seems insane that they would even want people with a crap Matura in their university.

And it all goes back to money. Those univeristies are state funded and as I'm sure you know Poland isn't a rich state ;) So I guess the universities are looking for ways to make money because without money they won't develop (and sometimes they may not even survive, I guess). That's why they also organise "evening" and "zaoczne" courses (for Part-Time Learners - that's how it's called in English, I guess?), which are paid for and usually those are or were less valued and there is or there was a notion that the daytime everyday courses are of a better level.

She very clearly said 'faculty'.

She probably didn't know the right words for "wydział" and "kierunek" in English just as I didn't :)

And she accused me of using the word 'faculty' "to mislead people here , nothing else ." She was lying.

Harry... ;) I don't think she was lying. I suspect she just misunderstood, just as I did. I didn't know that "kierunek" is called "course" in English so I missed the first part of your sentence. Maybe she did that too.
Paulina   
30 Aug 2013
Study / MBA in Poland for 40+ and older? [62]

I think it's a good idea in one respect - it cut down massively on open corruption, especially in very competitive subjects. The system now is all automatic, so it's much harder to just insert a student to the list who didn't make the cut.

I guess you're right, I haven't thought of this.

I guess professors simply can't be trusted to behave honourably, which is quite sad.

Maybe, although I must say I knew of only one professor at my university who could be bribed and, interestingly enough, he was a German lol o_O

Hey, I wouldn't complain at getting a European Commission salary ;)

Me neither lol But I can imagine how hard it is to get such a job ;)

Exactly. I suppose it's also useful for those who want to get a job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but again - this is so highly competitive that the course alone will never be enough.

One could become a politician after this too, I guess lol

Now I see it is european studies faculty , I don`t even know what it is . It is probably for morons who could not apply anywhere else .

Those were my thoughts too, I must say.

You're lying again, aren't you. There is no 'european studies faculty' at Adam Mickiewicz University.

She meant European studies course.

Can you imagine a top university in a Western country admitting people who barely passed their maturity exams? Sorry Monia, but it just shows that Polish education isn't anywhere near as good as you pretend it is.

Delph, I think it's also not as bad as you would like it to see based on that European studies course at UAM.
Some courses are so "exotic" and unpopular that it's easy to get on them. This could be the case with Europeistyka.
Paulina   
30 Aug 2013
Study / MBA in Poland for 40+ and older? [62]

Nope, nothing written/spoken now - it's all on the basis of the Matura grades.

Hmm, yes... Well... I've always found this change silly, tbh.

it's basically orientated around getting a good job in Brussels.

Well, that sounds rather exotic ;)

But at the end of the day - if they're admitting people with such shockingly bad scores, then there's no chance of them going to Brussels!

Of course there isn't. Maybe the top students will get somewhere and that's it probably.

And yet the madness of the situation is that they opened up more and more places :/

Money, money. The universities need money. It's capitalism now, delph! ;)
Paulina   
30 Aug 2013
Study / MBA in Poland for 40+ and older? [62]

Then it has changed, and students received a few copies of diplomas which allowed them to apply to many Unis. I don't know how it is now?

I'm pretty sure it's like that still.

BTW, can a person 40+ year old study with other 20 year olds or is the University of the Third Age his only option? Curious.

I don't know.

(missed it, I apologise)

It's OK.

Forgive me if I misunderstand this, but I double checked it with my wife.

Ah, OK, thanks. I wish getting into university was so easy in "my times" lol I actually had to pass a written and oral exam to get in lol Are there no exams anymore? o_O Sorry, but I'm not "na czasie" ;)

I think it's an absolute joke - a good university like UAM should not be taking in anyone with the basic matura in certain subjects.

Delph, to be fair - it's "Europeistyka" LOL Who even studies that? ;D This faculty sounds like a joke, who do you become after such studies? What do you need it for?

As you can see in that table in every single year the level of points needed for admission was getting lower and lower. And they didn't even fill all the spots last year so my guess is - people realised this faculty isn't useful, maybe it's a joke altogether and less people apply and the level gets lower and lower.... and lower.
Paulina   
30 Aug 2013
Study / MBA in Poland for 40+ and older? [62]

Perhaps Monia would like to explain to us why the third best university in the country (UAM) admits students with a mere 11 points to a faculty of administration and law?

Delph, could you answer my question?
Paulina   
30 Aug 2013
Study / MBA in Poland for 40+ and older? [62]

11 points last year to get into tuition fee studies at UAM. That was chosen at random.

Where in that link does it say that it's 11 points?

And this is also a barefaced lie!!

Jon357, in Poland it is in general much harder to get into tuition free studies, than the paid ones. The more popular, prestigious the faculty is, the more candidates for one spot there are and the more difficult it is to get in. Of course, it depends on how good and prestigious the university is - but it means the same - more people for one spot.

My cousin wanted to be a doctor but she didn't manage to get into the medicine faculty. She got into biotechnology and so she studied biotechnology.
Paulina   
27 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

Perhaps you'd like to quote the part of that passport which says that Chopin didn't have a French passport until 1837? Good luck with that.

lol
Harry, what are you talking about now? You wrote yourself he was using a Russian passport before in his travels.
On that page it is written: "celui-ci obtint, le 7 juillet 1837. un passeport délivré par les autorités françaises." So according to this French site he received his French passport issued by French authorities in 1837. I'm not able to decipher what is written in the passport itself, but I can see a date "1837".

Have I misunderstood something?

That's a question you'd need to direct to the Russian authorities in Warsaw at the time.

In other words - you don't know?

Did you miss the sentence after the one you quote from? Or are you now engaging in selective quoting to go along with your habit of being highly economical with the truth as regards what people say?

No, I didn't miss anyhting, and I'm not being "highly economical with the truth as regards what people say" (prove that with quotes or apologise for lying about me :)) I quoted that sentence before already. And? How does that sentence change anything? o_O

As I wrote before, you wrote "if he thought himself Polish", not "if he thought himself only Polish".
That is often the problem with your comments, Harry.
You accuse people of lying about what you write, about your intentions but you yourself provoke people to draw such conclusions because of the way you word your comments and the way you behave (I even wonder sometimes if you do it on purpose to provoke people).

Instead of accusing me of "lying" etc. couldn't you simply accept a little criticism? Will you die from it? lol Will a crown fall from your head? Are you perfect?

You give the impression that you're on a constant war with everyone who dares to disagree with anything you write (no, I'm not lying, that's my impression about you).

"Leave the trenches!" as my Russian friend used to write to some Poles ;)
Paulina   
27 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

Whoever said that? I certainly didn't.

Apparently his passport said that:
diaph16.free.fr/chopin//chopin7.htm

Lors d'un voyage de CHOPIN a Londres, celui-ci obtint, le 7 juillet 1837. un passeport délivré par les autorités françaises."

A Russian one, which permitted him to remain in Paris only 'in passage' on his way to London.

How could he get a Russian passport if he had French citizenship?

I question whether Chopin thought himself to be only Polish. He very clearly had no problem in being French when it suited him.

No, you clearly wrote "if he thought himself Polish", not "if he thought himself only Polish".
So either you're lying now to "save your face" or you have a very imprecise way of expressing yourself.
Don't act like an a$$hole and be more precise in your comments and I bet you'll have less enemies on this forum, Harry.

And nothing had to "suit" Chopin. He was half-Polish, half-French and he could consider himself both Polish and French and I have no problem with that.
Paulina   
27 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

You'd do much better to look at actual source documents (which are banned from use by Wikipedia authors).

How are they banned? There's a link in that Wikipedia article to Chopin's French passport.

I know he was born a French citizen because (and I'm repeating myself here).

That would prove my point even better about him considering himself Polish. Chopin didn't choose French citizenship, he had it since his birth.
Btw, how did he travel around Europe before the Uprising if he got a French passport only in 1837? What kind of passport did he have before that?

Do I really? Perhaps you could be so kind as to quote me saying that. Either that or apologise for yet again lying about what I say.

You question the fact that Chopin considered himself Polish:

As for FF Chopin himself, if he thought himself Polish, why didn't he apply for a 'laissez-passer' for foreigners living on French soil? He instead got the French passport which was his birth-right.

Then you made this silly comment when I wrote that George Sand said he was "more Polish than Poland":

You seem to forget that at the time when she said that, Poland didn't exist, so anything which claimed to be Polish was more Polish than something which didn't exist.

You also dissed the quotes from Liszt, Schumann and Richard Taruskin because I linked to Wikipedia:

Oh, I am sorry: if wikipedia says it, it must be true, right....

Then you wrote to Polonius3:

A life he chose to live in France as a Frenchman

So I'm not lying about what you write, I'm drawing a logical conclusion.
Am I wrong?
Then write that you accept the fact that Chopin considered himself Polish and his contemporaries considered him Polish and a Polish patriot and I will leave you alone and you'll be able to continue to kick Polonius3' ankles.
Paulina   
27 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

That very simply is not true: Chopin was born a French citizen.

I just quoted the English version of Wikipedia (the source for this is Szulc (1998), 69 but maybe it's a mistake and it was only about passport). I can't find anything about his citizenship in Polish Wikipedia and in Encyclopedia Britannica.

Btw, how do you know he was born a French citizen? Did his father retain French citizenship?

Would you care to quote a single fact which I deny? Or is that comment just another of the untrue things you love to say about me?

You deny the fact that Chopin considered himself Polish and his contemporaries considered him Polish and a Polish patriot.
No?
You don't deny that?
Then I'm all ears.
Write that you accept the fact that Chopin considered himslef Polish and his contemporaries considered him Polish and a Polish patriot.
Paulina   
27 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

You seem to forget that at the time when she said that, Poland didn't exist, so anything which claimed to be Polish was more Polish than something which didn't exist.

Harry, don't be a petty a$$hole, please.
Your denial of facts really makes me wonder.
Chopin considered himself Polish, he was a Polish patriot and he was viewed a Pole and a Polish patriot by his contemporaries.
Why do you have such a problem with that? Only because Polonius3 writes that Chopin was Polish? Do you see anything else around you besides your conflict with Polonius3? Don't you think it went too far already?

Or maybe it hurts your Western soul that some great composer considered himself Polish? lol
What the hell is wrong with you?

One does wonder why if Chopin was so Polish he chose to live in France as a Frenchman. Perhaps you can explain that?

Chopin was travelling around Western Europe when the November Uprising of 1830 broke out. He was with Tytus Woyciechowski in Vienna when the news reached them. Woyciechowski returned to Poland to enlist. Chopin stayed. From what I've read his friends and family told him not to go because they didn't want for such a talented man to die in an uprising. Chopin wrote to a friend '"I curse the moment of my departure."

The November Uprising was crushed. Chopin arrived in Paris in late September 1831. He would never return to Poland, thus becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration. He got the French citizenship in 1835 and travelled on a French passport.

Paris was a cultural and artistic centre of Europe, many artists went there, including Poles. Olga Boznańska, a Polish painter, was one of them.

Some Poles emigrated to further their careers. Maria Curie-Skłodowska, unable to get accepted into any Russian (Poland was partitioned) universities (due to her gender and the anti-Polish repercussions of the January Uprising), pursued her studies in Paris from 1891.

Also Chopin was half French, since his dad was French, so it's only natural, considering the situation in partitioned Poland, that he chose Paris which was sympathetic to the Polish cause and had already become the home of many Polish émigrés.

You know about dany_moussalli, a PF user from Syria? Because of the situation in Syria his parents are sending him and his brother to study in Poland. Those boys have some Polish roots and they have Polish passports already. Do you think they aren't Syrians anymore? lol

Oh, I am sorry: if wikipedia says it, it must be true, right....

Oh, ffs, you are like kondzior now? lol Wikipedia is no good as long it doesn't fit your views? You have never linked to Wikipedia on this forum?

If Wikipedia says it, it doesn't mean it isn't true either.

Sources are given there, if you haven't noticed:

Schumann (1988), 114.
Franz Liszt, Chopin, 1852, p. 163.
Taruskin (2010), 344–5.
Taruskin (2010), 346.
Rosen (1995), 361-3.

And who are you to tell others what is in their own hearts?????

+1000!
Paulina   
27 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

As for FF Chopin himself, if he thought himself Polish, why didn't he apply for a 'laissez-passer' for foreigners living on French soil? He instead got the French passport which was his birth-right.

Harry... lol
Judging by his letters (which I could read because I know... Polish language) he considered himself Polish.
His friend and lover, George Sand, said he was "more Polish than Poland".
When he left Poland he took a goblet of Polish soil with him.
Even his contemporaries (like another composer and pianist, Liszt) considered him as not only a Polish artist but a Polish patriot, and even a nationalist, it seems lol:

Nationalism

Schumann acknowledged the strength of Chopin's strong feelings to his native Poland in his 1836 review of Chopins' piano concertos, when he wrote that "Now that the Poles are in deep mourning [after the failure of the 1830 rising], their appeal to us artists is even stronger ...

Quote from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin
Paulina   
27 Aug 2013
Love / How to find a Polish girl for marriage? [22]

he is not German only some desperate third worlder

I suspect he's a troll (or at least I hope so lol) :)

Hey Paulina he sounds like your soulmate :P

That ain't funny, mocha. Not funny at all lol

Those topics should be deleted...

I agree. They're creepy.

Oh the stories I could tell.....

lol
Paulina   
26 Aug 2013
Love / How to find a Polish girl for marriage? [22]

I am just looking for a girl, who would be looking for marriage after 6 months or 1 year or 2.

Those Germans, they always want to plan everything lol

And as far as i know nothing is free. You even have to pay your wife 30-40% of your salary, LOL

xD
Is that what people do in Germany?

Are you a COP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why? Are you a criminal? :)

And why do you want a Polish girl for a wife?

And i have heard that Swiss girls are very demanding.

Ah, so Polish girls aren't very demanding and that's why you want one? :)
Paulina   
25 Aug 2013
Life / The changing RCC habits of Poles [70]

Ignoring the fact that the Church was riddled with collaborators, it still offered a chance to oppose the regime.

Delph lol "the Church was riddled with collaborators" You just wouldn't be yourself if you didn't add this to your sentence :)

But was it "riddled with collaborators" though? I know that there were collaborators, but I don't know how many. Do you?
Paulina   
25 Aug 2013
Love / How to find a Polish girl for marriage? [22]

And i'm not interested in paid/fake/shame fuk

Ah, so you're interested in a free of charge fuk? Well, that's understandable... lol

So Can Any refer to a girl willing to move to Germany? and speaks English?

Are there no women in Germany?
There are a lot of Poles in Germany, plenty of Russians in Berlin, or so I've heard, so why don't you look for a wife at home?

Do you want a mail-order bride?
Or maybe you are a human trafficker?
A psycho?
Paulina   
25 Aug 2013
Life / The changing RCC habits of Poles [70]

If I'd wanted to do that, I'd have just pointed out the 45% decline in Poles who go to church and completely ignored the far larger increase in Poles who take communion, wouldn't I.

Not necessarily, that data about Poles taking the communion could be just smoke and mirrors on your part used to camouflage the real reason for this thread and that reason is more then obvious, imho.

Er, no it does not, as you'd know if you read the links to the methodology of the survey. The survey is simply a snapshot of a single Sunday.

OK, then we don't know how many Poles go to church every Sunday. Great. Fascinating. Whatever.

Perhaps if you spent more time actually reading my posts and less time making up fictional reasons for my posts

I'm not making up fictional reasons for your posts, I'm drawing conclusions based on your behaviour on this forum. And you didn't deny that was the reason for this thread. You just wrote "If I'd wanted to do that", but you didn't deny it. Nor did delph, if you haven't noticed.

Anyway, back to the topic, do you have any thoughts why there are so many fewer of 'the faithful' but the faithful which there are seem to be becoming much more 'faithful'?

It doesn't matter if I do, I wouldn't share them with someone like you anyway.

Delph, I'll try to comment on your post some other time.
Paulina   
21 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

I'd say we are all humans first. And that's what really counts.

I agree.

Patriotism (this is what this thread is about) is like make-up that one uses to make him/her think s/he looks better that s/he really does. Or better than his/her neighbour.

I disagree.

And as a Christian, it should be yours too.

That's true.

Goofy, you're a Polish Catholic, so don't forget that God comes first, then Honour and Fatherland comes last.
;)
Paulina   
21 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

Yes, goofs, it is a matter of patriotism :)
Of course I suspect most Poles living in Poland know at least the first verse (zwrotka, I mean) of the anthem and the chorus, but that's what you are thaught at school. Kaczyński was laughed at because he made a mistake in the anthem and it sounded as if he didn't know the melody well enough lol

A foreigner studying Polish language could learn the whole anthem and maybe even sing it better than Kaczyński and? Would that make him Polish?

come on paulina... two kings at least.. rota?? its not much.

Goofy, everybody learns in Polish schools about Polish kings. So, of course, most Poles would be able to name at least two of them. But I really doubt most Poles know "Rota" by heart, they may know the first line and that's it.

I think you should visit Poland and get a reality check ;)

What about women. Do they have a different standard to measure up to?

Haha lol I was wondering about that too :)
Paulina   
21 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

The legia scum knows the anthem for sure. Does it make them Poles?

I'm not sure what you're trying to convey here. You think being "Legia scum" makes them non-Poles? ;)

all i am trying to say is that Polishness shouldnt be a cheap tthing

Goofy, it isn't a simple issue, but let's say being a Pole is an ethnicity or citizenship.
So, yeah, it's rather "cheap" - all one has to do is to be born a Pole.
The term for what you're writing about - this "Polishness" - is patriotism, I think :)