Love / What is this feeling? <Filipino guy / Polish girl> [50]

Poles and Filipinos have a strange attraction to one another that is difficult to explain. Perhaps it is a physical disparity that the genius of the species wishes to transcend in offspring. In any event it has led to violence. Leon Czolgosz shot President McKinley out of love for Filipinos.

Life / Poland's population predictions [59]


You know who are the real scum? racist morons such as Filios

Life / Poles - what other nationality would you say you are most like? [125]


If you'd read my post more closely you'd see I explained that the Polish/French affinity rests upon a love of political freedom, art, and stylishness in general. Trying to understand cultures solely in terms of alcoholic beverages is very superficial. Since literary comparisons would be wasted upon the likes of you let me point to a more popular medium, the cinema. Polish movies like Ashes And Diamonds and The Saragossa Manuscript stand up well next to the best French New Wave films, and imagining that any of the less sophisticated European peoples could make such films is laughable.


There was a family tradition amongst the Nietzsche's which claimed Polish ancestry. Friedrich's father actually had the family registered as non-German with the Prussian authorities. However Nietzsche is not a Polish name but a German one which is somewhat common in the Eastern part of Germany, despite this we can say that Nietzsche's philosophy is a thundering affirmation of Sarmatism, and he was indeed Polish in spirit.

Life / Poles - what other nationality would you say you are most like? [125]

Czesłąw Miłosz wrote in he 1980's that the Hungarians and the Serbs are the only two nationalities that Poles have unbounded friendship for. The Hungarians and the Poles were the two nations in Europe with the highest percentage of nobility amongst their populace, around 10%. But of course linguistically and culturally, despite a certain amount of Germanization, the Hungarians are not Indo-Europeans at all but rather but Finno-Ugrians whose ancestors hail from Central Asia.

Despite the popularity of French-bashing amongst the troglodytic types in this forum we must admit that, given the Polish love of freedom, art, high culture and stylishness, the Poles are as Nietzsche said: The French among the Slavs.

USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

Less than a century ago people of Polish descent were considered non-caucasians by the U.S. census and classified as members of the "Slavic Race". Italians, Irishmen, and Jews are other groups that have now become "white".

Life / Tribute to Stanisław Lem - recommended books to read? [13]

I heartily recommend Lem's book "Return From The Stars". It presents an incredibly interesting vision of a pharmacologically emasculated world, and it has a good plot.

Food / PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland? [159]

In Brazil they also eat their pizza with catsup.

Life / Sci-fi / Fantasy books in Polish? [12]

Not all of Stanisław Lem's book's are so called "hard" science fiction. His book entitled 'His Master's Voice' is quite challenging, but he also has more accessible novels such as 'The Cyberiad', and my personal favorite 'Return From the Stars'. I recommend you purchase the latter for your son. Besides which at 16 he is too old to be reading the childish Harry Potter series. Harry Potter is an exercise in Anglo wimpiness. As a Pole I'm sure you want your son to be better than that. The 'Futurological Congress' is also a great read, and although it concerns drug induced hallucinations, I know as a Polish-American that our people's ability to thrive on strong inebriants is much greater than most others. Your son should read Stanisław Lem!

Life / Polish Film World and Poland Movie Reviews [30]

Many great film directors cite a Polish movie as the best film of all time. It is based on Jan Potacki's French novel, and it is called the "Saragossa Manuscript". It is quite surreal and full of topless Polish beauties.