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JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

Sure, they just all conspired against you and you're the guy who's got the real scoop, after all you're the one in Sudan right now.

They didn't conspire against me or indeed anyone. Just oversimplified the issue. Arab can be (and is here) a cultural identity rather than a merely racial one. There are black Arabs. Do you really think the Ansari Nuba are a different race to the Neur?

I knew you wouldn't be able to manage it without being abusive. But yes - all Sudanese are Africans, one race, one colour.

But this is a side issue since you're deliberately trying to evade the question: why you think racism is "part of the natural order of things".
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

on planet Mars or planet Mercury, not the one on planet Earth.

Or maybe you should just shut up when grown-ups are talking?

Somehow I knew you wouldn't be able to try to make a point without being abusive. It was too much to hope for otherwise.

The Sudanese are all Africans. Some are linguistically and culturally Arabised - indeed this was a forced policy from the 1970s until quite recently - but still the same race. Don't believe what you can copy and paste from the internet. Here in Khartoum in North Sudan, the people are all black Africans.

Again, perhaps you can tell us (ideally without being abusive, if you can manage that) why you think racism is "part of the natural order of things".
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

Look up Sudan.

Interesting. I'm there now (where everybody except official visitors and diplomats are the same race). Perhaps you can tell us (ideally without being abusive, if you can manage that) why you think racism is "part of the natural order of things".
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

racism is as much a part of the "natural order" of things that nobody even plans to research it, much less combat it?

Racism is never part of the 'natural order of things'. It is an abomination and an entirely artificial construct.
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

As I told you, racism is a trait that can be found in people of all shapes, sizes and colors. Very often in non-white people.

Not 'can be found'. The important thing is what actually happens. The story of racism is largely the story of people with lighter skin oppressing people of darker skin.

you've been to brainwashed

That's just funny!
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

What's the problem? I just suggested that you might be racist by claiming Amin, a strong, black leader allowed other ( white ) people to shape his policy

He did. Several of the people he paid to advise him were white. Nothing racist about that!

Show a bit more respect to a black male's right to rule by himself, otherwise you're racist.

Show a bit more respect to a black male's decision to recruit advisors of his choice. Otherwise you're naive and stupid. Or trolling.

Well, it also doesn't lessen the fact that skaf and his 7 lebanese friends were a racist bunch of rapists.

7 friends? Not exactly a mass phenomena. Unlike the institutional racism that has existed in Australia since its first settlement by whites.

Wait, wait, wait... Are you actually saying that a person of color other than white might actually be racist? That's a huge step forward, bravo.

You used a very interesting phrase. "might actually". Better to look and see what actually happens in ths world. Not 7 Australians with a grudge for revenge, but every day.
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Work / Polish salaries - New statistics [38]

Many make less than 2000 zl/m brutto.

If that. A lot of the bigger employers get around the minimum wage rule by offering 75% contracts.

And many Poles have more than 1 job.

Or just live below the poverty line :-(
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

Said the guy who claimed I'm being rude.

Yes. Rude.

Which obviously means the evil white man ruled through him. I don't know if you noticed, but you've just been racist by suggesting Amin ( a black guy ) didn't have the wits to make his own decisions.

That's one of the silliest things on here sinnce you last posted. Check out the difference between racism and xenophobia and also tell us how President Amin was 'racist' to white people.

his has nothing whatsoever to do with Bilal Skaf

Should it? It also doesn't lessent he fact that racism in Australia has been overwhelmingly on the part of thewhite man. For two centuries.

Basically you're the type of guy that's going to cry racism every time a white guy does something to a member of another race,

Really? That would depend if 'something' is motivated by race, doesn't it?

This is what kids are taught in Toronto School Boards.

Vey good!
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

So I take it this behaviour is ok in your book and doesn't constitute black-on-white racism?

Great. Then please be so kind and quit making moronic statements about racism being largely a thing that affects only white people.

I didn't say that, fool. I said it largely affects darker skinned people. Like in Japan. Don't confuse xenophobia with racism, assuming you can get your limited intellect round the difference. LOL.

No. It constitutes crime. Black people are victims of crime too.

Back in 1972 ( you probably don't remember ) Uganda was ruled by bloke called Idi Amin. Guy was as black as they came.

I remember it well.

Whole affair had ******* to do with white people.

His chief advisor was white and Amin was installed in power by the British government. Perhaps you don't remember.

Australia of all places a chap named Bilal Skaf ( Lebanese ) went around with a bunch of his pals ( 6? 7? ) gang-raping white women. One of the victims was told that it was ok to rape her since she was Australian.

In Australia (of all places) gangs of whites used to go around hunting aborigines for sport. They believed it was OK because they were Aborigines. And don't forget the White Australia policy.

while in reality it affects all races equally.

So you're suggesting blacks enslaved and colonised whites for centuries? LMAO!
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

Personal abuse - we expect it from you. But, anyway:

Perhaps you never left a country where white happens to be a dominant race and hence are simply not qualified to speak on the subject.

I'm in sub-Saharan Africa now.

a) The Japanese have a formal term for outsider - "gajin" - which is most often associated with people of other race and/or nationality. Offering preferential treatment to non-gajin is quite frankly the norm in Japanese society.

The Japanese discriminate hugely - especially on the basis of skin colour.

Granting citizenship to outsiders coming to work in a country and hailing from another racial group is a concept completely alien towards most places dominated by Arabs - Saudi Arabia, Dubai, etc.

Saudi Arabia (I've lived there too) grants citizen ship to any Muslim who lives there for ten years. And again, among non-citizens they discriminate enormously against black Africans and treat white people much better. Other colours in the middle. You could have chosen a better example.

While you're at it you might also check up on the crime rates in South Africa and on black-on-white crime over there,

You might check on apartheid, encomic inequality, inequality of access to education and employment and reflect on how the situation arose there. Must be all those poor downtrodden whites robbing the rich and privileged black settlers.

And don't be so rude otr the moderators will ban you. Rightly so.
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

Got anything to back up your outrageous claims

Since you're claiming something outrageous it's on you to back it up. Perhaps by suggesting that slavery, Jim Crow and apartheid never happened? Or that black people as a group are economically ahead of whites.
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / The number of Anti-English Poles... [228]

They were not invited

Yes they were.

they are not welcome.

Yes they are.

The only English they need to know is England m

Not at all.

Land of the English.

Who?
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK not a problem as far as i can tell [79]

The English did not vote for the EU

Actually yes, we did. There was a vote to join the common market, and as it progressed to being the EU, every political party made their opinions clear in their election manifesto.

They are not like us, they are Slavic,

Therefore like 'us'.

we don't want them living among us

Speak for yourself.

for our wealth

The kind of loser who spouts racist trash can generally only dream of wealth.
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
Food / Warsaw's Królewskie beer [3]

Anyone ever try Królewski

It's my usual drink. Some people are quite sniffy about it, prefering better known brands. But really it is quite good.
JonnyM   
30 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK not a problem as far as i can tell [79]

The problem with England is the Class System which still exists in spite of the fact that many of you still deny it

It exists far less in Britain than in most developed countries. Certainly less than in Poland. It's significant though that not all Poles who've come to Britain came in at the bottom of the heap.

Your Government isn't laid back, it doesn't give a rump about the working class English.

It's the most 'laid back' government in decades. It 'gives a rump' about those who vote. Period.
JonnyM   
27 Jul 2011
Work / American English Teachers in Poland. Job prospects? [9]

1. Would there be any hope of finding a teaching job between December and January? What date does the second first semester end and the second semester begin?

It isn't the best time at all, but a lot of the work in Poland (especially Warsaw) is in-company so doesn't work on the semester season. It's also a time when teachers leave mid-contract. One problem might be Feria (a 2 week holiday in late January). Though it is possible to pick up work at that time. The new year is often a good time to pick up private lessons.

3. Is it acceptable to apply for jobs before I have finished taking the CELTA course?

During your CELTA is a good time.

Have you checked out the ESL Cafe Poland section? The search function there is a mine of information, especially about work permits for US citizens.
JonnyM   
27 Jul 2011
Life / Is it me or do people "seem" to live longer in Poland? Life expectancy among Poles. [52]

My High School had an intake roughly split between a pit village and a market town, guess which ones now look far older than mid 30s and those who look younger.....................

Same here - and on Friends reunited you can really see the difference. In Poland there was a lot of heavy industry and hard agricultural work. That must really age people. I know an 87 year old in Warsaw who's still working, But he's a teetotal non-smoking intellectual and not a heavy labourer.

funny,just been walking my dog on the moors with an 85 year old guy

My dad's 80 and leads walks in the Pennines for a pensioners' group. The 60-somethings complain they can't keep up.
JonnyM   
27 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Moving from United Kingdom to USA. Is it worth it? [136]

have you ever seen a 100 year old house in Poland?

There are several 200 year old houses in Warsaw - including the one where Bonaparte allegedly met Mme Walewska, in Raszyn.

Personally I don't mind wooden houses - the ones in PL are great, and in the US the cheapness of construction means you can have plenty of space. Poles in general don't like them though and tend, if anything, to build too solidly.

Ive just spent a long weekend in a 300 hundred year old house

Wonderful. North Elmsall Hall (must only be a few miles from you) is for sale at the moment - about 700 years old. I wish I could afford it.

To the OP: seriously, the US economy isn't in a good state at the moment, and they're hardly likely to be handing out green cards. It's much better to stay in London or perhaps move to the North. Or Poland - the economy is slowly growing there.
JonnyM   
27 Jul 2011
Life / Is it me or do people "seem" to live longer in Poland? Life expectancy among Poles. [52]

I have quite a few friends and acquaintances who are ladies who are mature, no longer kids (I'm being tactful here). In more than one country. I've noticed that in Poland, they are more likely to look young due to facelifts. They are much cheaper than in the UK and becoming very popular.. They work too. I also know a couple of Polish men who've had them. Of the ladies I know who could be called elderly, none of those who are in Poland have had noticeable lifting, but several in the UK have. Must be a generational thing.

Im from Doncaster,our 30 year olds look 50

Me too, and aren't they just! Can't blame coal mines or toiling in factories any more. Must be the chip sandwiches.
JonnyM   
27 Jul 2011
Life / Is it me or do people "seem" to live longer in Poland? Life expectancy among Poles. [52]

When I'm out and about between 9-5 on a week day locally, the wrinklies seem to take over the streets.

9-5? More like 7.30 to 8.30, when commuters can't get a seat on packed buses because they are taken by 99 year olds who really MUST do all their shopping during the Monday rush hour.

Seriously, Poles do tend to look quite old for their years. Bad diet, smoking, alcohol and dressing in an unflattering way all contribute.