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Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]
PennBoy wasn't born in the 70s. In the 80s all was great for him thanks to daddy collaborating, until the fall of communism.
See what i mean Havok? no one in my family ever was in the communist party or collaborated with them. This idiot thinks everyone who was a manager at a PRL factory was a member, someone who isn't old enough to know. Like i said before they asked you to join but could never force you to, if anything you got transferred somewhere else, my father worked there only 5 years, as for being a kierownik after half a year, not many people in mid 70's had engineering degrees and job training in East Germany. SO next time ask before making up assumptions that appeal to your liking. I will not explain again.
You know Havok, your and PennBoy's problem is that you keep the picture of Poland and Polish people in some 1989 year or whenever you left. Poland actually moved on, and America doesn't seem such a paradise to most Poles as it used to be
since coming here i've been to Poland in 93', 94', 95', 96', 01', 02', 05' my friend who just came back after being in Warsaw and Kielce for 4 months (his fiance lives there) who traveled all over the world (since that's his hobby) said not much has changed in the last couple years, in Warsaw ever downtown there are few foreigners besides Polish once in a while you'll hear Russian or Ukrainian. Meanwhile in Prague (Czech Rep) there are tons of foreigners from all over the world, American also. So what if everything is available in Poland everything is expensive, food, gasoline, housing, cars etc. Poles don't come to America because a plane ticket alone is a thousand dollars, how much does a bus or plane ticket to Germany, the UK cost? 50 euros? Poles go to those countries and take their money back to Poland if they lived in those countries they'd have far less money left over than Americans. (Food, gasoline, housing, cars) cost much less in the States, your money goes further here that's why this is still the land of milk and honey.
