News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]

We call them "colored" because they aren't as pale as "whites". People of color are hispanics, blacks and asians.

News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]


Those get lumped together into one catagory : colored

Love / Woman 23, man 47 years old. What do you think about ? [162]

That guy is too old for you. Go find someone closer to your age.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Torq, at one time French was popular with the rulers, too, but I forget when. Different Languages became fads within the elite. How can language be an indicator of who one is or where one's loyalties lie?

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

I'm not sure how important language is for the aristrocracy and intellectuals. Didn't they all communicate in Latin for quite a while? Latin was, to them, what English is to Europeans now. A binding language that makes communicating easier.

English is the new Latin.

News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]


In reality Poles aren't any better or worse than other Europeans but they got to put up with more prejudice and they react to it. Everybody would be a bit happier if the restrictions were lifted and there were waivers. The effects would be beneficial.

News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]

Torq, the Native Americans ended up with very little compared to everyone else. Life for Native Americans has been worse than for the Palestinians.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

I'm not sure about it, Seanus, because I cannot ask Copernicus what he thinks of Poles and of Germans and which he would identify with and why. I am sure if I could I would get an interesting answer and it wouldn't be so simple as "Why, Prussian, of course!" He might have been anti German because of Teutonism and negated everything German despite that.

Disgusted by Teutonism, he might be critical of Germans for accepting it, kind of like Nietzsche was critical of Prussia and identified with Poles and claimed Polish ancestry even though there isn't any.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]


He writes in German because that's what he knows. I write in English does that make me British? What does the language itself mean? His mother was a German woman and spoke to him in German so he learned it. I learned English growing up because that's what everyone around me spoke but I am American.

One thing we must all ask ourselves: What does language make us? Just because you are fluent in a language...does it make you that nationality or culture?

News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]

New World history is ugly because it's based on people coming from overseas and pillaging. That's just a hideous fact.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Seanus, Where is the proof Copernicus clung to teutonism or Germanity? I don't see it. His father was Polish, also. His mother's side of the family were German but fought Teutonism. Sounds like they were more Polish than German.

If you were to show me proof his family supported the teutons and were anti polanism I could say he was German but that isn't the indication so why turn him into something he isn't just to satisfy certain people who can't even go back in time and ask him what he would prefer to be called "German" or "Polish"? Or is the correct term "Prussian"?

News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]


There are some similarities between the beginning of the US and Israel in the sense that people came to our countries from other places. The US and Israel were both inhabited by others who were living there before we came (in Israel, it's Arabs, in America, it's Native Americans). The Europeans (who eventually became Americans or the descendants of) removed Native Americans while the Israelis removed troublesome Arabs. Both countries have their origins in inviting people from all over the world to live on land that others lived on, fighting with them and removing them. The same sort of thing happened to Native American tribes that happened to Palestinians. The native Americans were warlike and troublesome, wanted their land and the whiteman to leave it so they started trouble and were removed, put on reservations and relocated to other parts of the country. Same with the Palestinians.

News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]


The British were active in the slave trade according to Obama's trip to Ghana.

Cape Coast Castle was the epicenter of the British slave trade in Ghana, 17th century.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Nathan, that sounds like Germans who wish to be Polish so we call them Poles.

Now that that's settled.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]


This is a step in the right direction. Germans should name more things after Poles to acknowledge the contributions Poles have made over the years.

@ Crow...isn't Star Trek created and produced by members of your mortal enemies?

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

It's because of how Israel became a nation, Yehudi. I'll give you the perspective. You got restitution claims occuring in places like Poland and you have Palestinians who have been displaced from their homes and shoved into Gaza. Yehudi, I am not judging any of this, just being an objective observer and reporting.

Mention Polish nationalism or racism and people are going to mention Jewish nationalism and racism. People are going to wonder why Jews have the right to restitution when Palestinians do not. They are going to bring up the issues involving the Palestinians whenever restitution and jewish nationalism becomes an issue. It's human nature.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

I wouldn't call him a German.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

He fought for Poland. Doesn't that make him more Polish than German?

USA, Canada / What do you think about NM (New Mexico) state? [40]

If you are going to visit New Mexico, you must stop by at White Sands National Monument. The only bad thing is they test nuclear missiles there.

White Sands is made up of large gypsum dunes that are hard like plaster of paris so you can climb them and walk on them. It's the largest pure gypsum dune field in the world.

There's a walking trail and a trail you can drive thru.
There's a White Sands Institute that offers courses in photography.
Animal species that have become white due to natural selection (lizards, spiders, mice, scorpions, toads) can be found throughout the dunes. It's definitely a must-see.

USA, Canada / What do you think about NM (New Mexico) state? [40]

Those gypsum dunes are lovely in the sun. That would be a cool place to visit.

USA, Canada / What do you think about NM (New Mexico) state? [40]

I've only been thru NM without stopping long. Sounds like it has some nice places. It has a hot air balloon festival but I forget when it is.

USA, Canada / What do you think about NM (New Mexico) state? [40]

You should go to Santa Fe. There's some places to ski in winter that are cheaper than Colorado. It's mostly desert.

Genealogy / Why Polish aren't white?? [272]


Poles have done excellent in the US, especially the Northeastern part. Where does this stereotype come from? We aren't cheap labor over here.

Love / Are Polish Women cold and aloof? [249]

Wow Polsky you are all complaints. You don't like dentists either.

UK, Ireland / Mercy flight for dying Polish woman living in the UK [21]


I thought British NHS was supposed to be good since it's socialized medicine. Are you saying it isn't?

UK, Ireland / Mercy flight for dying Polish woman living in the UK [21]


Seanus, that isn't true. People all over the world do nice things for others every single day. Saying we are all reduced to "ticks on a piece of paper" status is overdoing it a bit.

Still it's cool someone does something nice for another.

Love / What to wear when trying to pick up girls in Poland? [58]


You look retarded in a cowboy hat anywhere. FFS don't wear a cowboy hat or you'll embarrass us all. Show some class. You might wanna rethink cowboy boots too. Get some trendier clothes before you go over there. Please.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


They might get everything back under the two state solution deal. The idea is hopefully we can get these folks together in Israel all living together under one flag and not fighting. I think it can be achieved. Fundamentally and culturally, Palestinians are only a few hundred years behind everyone else but if we can get them to catch up, they can all live together. The reason they fail is because they are so backwards. They don't realize they would be happier if they were modernized.

News / What's the stupidest question asked about Poland? [414]


Yeah. They annoy me too.

News / What's the stupidest question asked about Poland? [414]


That's happened to me based on my last name too. It's not jewish it's polish but lots of people think everyone with a polish last name is jewish. It's been my experience in the US.