Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]

Throughout the whole of Europe, I can only agree. I was speaking strictly about my professional experience within the US.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]

Women in the workforce is hardly news. A strong female contingent predominantly in office staffing though is a relatively recent phenomenon, at least in the States, going back easily forty years or so:-)

Towards the end of the '70's, I can vividly recall a collective memo being handed around our office, "GET RID OF THE GIRL!", in bold red, and anybody thereinafter

heard in public referring to a secretary, intern or the whatnot as a girl (much less in a sexually lewd fashion, even if unintentionally) received a verbal warning, followed by a written warning, after that, automatic suspension without pay!

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]

The concept of diversity aka "affirmative action" here in the US is quite simple really, indeed quite laudable when one stops to think about it, Ironside. The original idea was to attempt to right some of the egregious wrongs done to various minority groups in this country, such as African-Americans, Hispanics, Chinese, the mentally handicapped, and so forth and so on.

This pattern of thinking is not too different from Ms. Merkel's thinking of attempting to somehow make amends for Germany's Nazi past, by bending over backwards for

traditionally discriminated ethnicities in other Western industrialized nations.

Naturally, even a good thing goes terminally, permanently sour as soon as the expedience of poor judgement overtakes solid, practical reason:-)

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]

As I've posted, diversity in an of itself, much as with immigration, can be a wonderful learning tool, an aid to mutual understanding, granted.

Unfortunately, as with labor unions, once the greedylocks of this world get their hands on a good idea, they destroy it!

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]

Diversity, much as the other hot-button issue abortion, is too good a performer.

Off-Topic / Funny mistakes by Polish users of English [34]

Oh I know that, pawian! I only meant that, whereas in English, one tends to yell "Fire!", in Polish, screaming "Ogien!" might simply yield more bemused concern rather than panic, as Polish doesn't literally use the same expression as English, instead opting for the more precise "Pali sie!" aka "It's burning!" cf. German "Es brennt!".

That's all I meant to say:-)

Genealogy / Do Polish people often have the Mongolian spot? [24]

"MogUls" or "MoNgols", Vlad?

History / Poland and Israel getting back on the right foot...maybe [132]

I'm not the one stirring up the problems, mate!

The World Jewish Congress has been an embarrassment to our people since they sat on their hands during
the early years of the Holocaust, watching, but not acting!!

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]

S.B.

I agree to a large extent with your definition of "diversity". In the US, along with that other code word "affirmative action", it's actually merely a sanitized name

for "discrimination" in order for the business owner to make more money.

News / Hollywood's War with Poland. [150]

You mean, pawian, that Polish customs must be observed, regardless of social background or education:-)

News / Hollywood's War with Poland. [150]

Rod Steiger was in real life a gentile, by the way. Don't let his moniker fool you.

History / Positive portrayal of Poles in world`s cinema and TV [18]

Ahemmm. guess y'all missed "Little Caeser", "The Enforcer", "I was a Prisoner on a Chain Gang", "Key Largo" etc..... etc.... in which Italians aka Italian-Americans were CONSTANTLY being portrayed as criminals, Mafiosi, gangsters or assorted low-life thugs, right on up through De Niro's portrayal of Al Capone in "The Untouchables" (1985), thereinafter "Good Fellas", not to mention "Raging Bull" ad infinitum "Stereotyped" portrayals in Hollywood of Polish characters pale by comparison. "Black Legions (1938??) with Humphrey Bogart as a recently displaced factory worker comes to mind, as soon as the new guy who replaces him and becomes foreman, named Dabrowski, is mentioned.

S. B.
Get a life and smarten up, ok?!! There's sooooo much you don't know.
:-)

History / Poland and Israel getting back on the right foot...maybe [132]

@Rich, your distinction is valid and I apologize for not being specific.

As far as Polish property appropriated by the Communists in Poland AFTER WWII, much of that "Polish" property was doubtless owned in part by Jewish families and so we're back to square one in terms of the entire question of reparations!

History / Positive portrayal of Poles in world`s cinema and TV [18]

"Northside 777" (1947) portrayed a Polish-American family from the Chicago meat-packing district (of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" fame) in trouble with the law.
Apart from that, can't think of too many specifically Polish characters in Hollywood movies, except for that TV series in the '70's with George Peppard as a Polish-American detective:-)

History / Poland and Israel getting back on the right foot...maybe [132]

Whether the comparison is analogous remains the question which requires further examination, Maf & dolno.

How convenient though that Poland can use the perennial excuse that there was only a government in exile during the time when all the horrors of

the Holocaust came to pass:-)

I merely want you both to know that I consider myself an equal opportunity nudge and don't discriminate as to from whom I demand redress!

@dolno, you are no more anti-Jewish than I am anti-Polish.

History / Poland and Israel getting back on the right foot...maybe [132]

Whoever dispossessed Jews living in war-time Poland, be they Germans or Poles, is obliged both legally and certainly morally to compensate any loss of property value, in as far as "Aryanized" businesses naturally were taken over by the government of either Poland or Germany.

That's simple and reasonable enough. It's not singling out the Poles but indicating that complicity knows no single national group.

History / Poland and Israel getting back on the right foot...maybe [132]

I certainly hope and pray, you're not holding Herr Irving up as an example of anything but an anti-Semite as well as a charlatan.

History / Poland and Israel getting back on the right foot...maybe [132]

What does that mean?

History / Poland and Israel getting back on the right foot...maybe [132]

??? Are you sure you've understood my posts. Milo?,

Can't have been clearer as to my position on this matter, in all frankness.
Allright, I'll say it once again for the slower among usLOL

Rotmistrz Pilecki, the engineers of the Lwow Underground, Sendler, Karski, the whole blessed bunch, were HEROES THROUGH AND THROUGH.

Clear?

History / Poland and Israel getting back on the right foot...maybe [132]

I'll grant you as much that ANYONE seeking to capitalize off of fraud aka saying that somebody was in a camp when in fact they weren't, at worst sitting pretty in a safe have or what not, is filthy and foul, besmirches the memory as well of the suffering of millions who endured more than most of us could stand.

On the other hand, in cases where actual compensation or "restitution" is owed, it should certainly be remunerated, if not in full, than at least by half!

History / Poland and Israel getting back on the right foot...maybe [132]

Once more, Milo & Dirk, analogous statements attempting to compare Holocaust-Era Poland and the present state of Israel simply don't hold water! Always easy to attack the perennial victim, namely Israel or the Jews of Poland during WW II, for trying to defend themselves against outward aggression, long in place from time immemorial, certainly before any of those killed in the Holocaust were around.

Study / Any high-schools in Poland that instruct in English? [6]

Never any need to apologize, pawian.

Study / Any high-schools in Poland that instruct in English? [6]

As I said, international or schools which cater to diplomats' kids:-)

UK, Ireland / Learning English but after reading comments in DM I feel it's no use [59]

BINGO, roz!!!

News / Hollywood's War with Poland. [150]

All the familiar tropes!

While a preponderant number of Hollywood producers during the Golden Age of Movies WERE Jewish and did often portray African-Americans in particular in an awful way, the way many ethnic groups were portrayed, including the Jews, wasn't so wonderful either.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

Mexicans along with many other Latino nations eat beans at nearly every meal, lul bul, sometimes two to three times a day:-)

Off-Topic / Funny mistakes by Polish users of English [34]

Where there's smoke, there's fire:-)

Ck. out the Polish for "Es brennt!" (Last time I looked, burning is done by means of the element "fire" (Feuer), 'cept for dry ice, not even ice at all), namely,

"Pali sie!, literally, "It's heating (up)!", yet neither direct reference to fire or to smoke (dymic sie = rauchen, yet nobody would call out in a crowded theater,

"Rauch!", "Rauch!" at the risk of sounding strange).

Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]

"Cwiczenie czyni mistrza!", literally "Exercise does/makes master", which sounds odd in English to say the least:-)

Off-Topic / Funny mistakes by Polish users of English [34]

Off topic I know, but once a German asked me at a party here in New York "Have you please fire?"
Luckily, I knew she was simply asking for a light:-)

Study / Any high-schools in Poland that instruct in English? [6]

Might be an idea to bone up on the basics before venturing with no prior "warming up" period to another country of whose language you have no knowledge:-)

There are to be sure various types of schools which provide instruction in languages other than Polish, but I'd imagine those are almost exclusively diplomat schools for the sons and daughters of highly-placed consular staff.

Good hunting, Alprazolam!