News / Trump will hold Poland up as an example for other nations to follow [106]


then you should punch her in the stomach the next time you see her...

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


It is. Deal with it.

News / Trump will hold Poland up as an example for other nations to follow [106]


It's often impossible to be polite in two systems at the same time, greeting a woman first is perfectly in line with Polish etiquette. I'm not a fan of Dudowa either but she's not at fault here.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


Like all the races democrats have been losing? I'm not a Trump fan but he's not going to be impeached and his supporters are not swayed by anything that media that you like reports.

The democrats need to start running for something (that supports the interests of voters) instead of against Trump, that's a losing proposition.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


He supports a German axis and insults a large number of posters here. No way to win friends an influence people.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


Not a good word to use in reference to any German political alliance.


Why thank you kindly, sir. Are you that determined to alienate one of the _very_ few people on this board that doesn't wish you ill?

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


Probably not, the UK and Ireland have already sucked most of those people up. The ones going to the US would mostly be those with family connections.

UK, Ireland / Question about Irish-Polish similarities [25]


Back in the late 90s an Irish colleague (from the Dublin area) was constantly telling me that Ireland was more culturally conservative than Poland. He said his sister's first remark when she visited him was to the effect of "if these girls are catholic then why are their skirts so short?"

He also claimed that the Irish tried to appear more liberal than they were (concerning questions like divorce or premarital sex) while Poles often tried to appear more conservative than they were.

Just putting it out there...

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]


Find a European born terrorist from a muslim background that doesn't fit that pattern. It probably works differently for immigrants and converts but the native born pattern is crystal clear to anyone who looks.

Cultural factors and cultural values that immigrants bring with them don't disappear when they immigrate and multi-culturalism means that parents can (and do) prevent their children from assimilating into the local culture. Instead of transferring the culture they end up transferring their own culture shock trauma so that the kids grow up thinking of what should become their own culture as foul and contaminated.

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]


The problem is that the values of the muslim ghettos lead to failure in the mainstream of the host nation which leads to frustration and despair and nihilism that canny imams are able to use to turn them into terrorists.

The profile of European born muslim terrorists is of a peace - a youth marked by avoiding integration and education and idolizing gangster figures then in yong adulthood they realize how many opportunities they've wasted and get religion (which they've avoided previously) and the pickings are ripe for radical imams.

If they were in their own culture they'd still be failures (because mainstream muslim cultural leads to failure in the modern world) but they wouldn't have the alienation and frustration.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


The same was true of Lech Wałęsa, famous for garbled nonsense, or wildly inappropriate 'jokes' masquerading as pithy political commentary.

Law / Exam for Drivers License in Poland after passing theoretical test in Germany? [7]


Not anymore. The final death knell for German in Poland was Germany's resistence to Polish labor when Poland joined the EU. Germany (with ally France) did everything it could to keep its labor markets closed to Poles while the UK threw the doors open. The UK acted likean ally, Germany didnt'. By the time Germany had to accept Polish workers.... Poles had lost interest.

Even schools in the Gdansk area have taken German out of the curriculum....

News / Thousands of teachers to lose their jobs in Poland [57]


A passport (or tax bill) shows who has actual skin in the game (to use a currently popular term) who's actually thrown in their lot with the country versus the dilettantes.

News / Thousands of teachers to lose their jobs in Poland [57]


The last I knew there was no federal system for education and different places would break up the 12 years (meant to be the same for everyone) in different ways. 4 + 4 + 4, 8 + 4 or 6 +3 +3 are the most common breakdowns. But the big difference between the US system and Europe is the traditional avoidance of tracking until after high school.

IINM the idea of the new system is to start tracking students at the high school level....


Very bad idea for just that reason.


Mixed mind here, pretty much all university instructors agree that the quality of incoming students started dropping (at the same time that the 'new' matura was introduced). Though that could be a coincidence (like the population drop which means universities are facing smaller numbers of students applying).

News / Thousands of teachers to lose their jobs in Poland [57]


you misrepresent me, I said that those don't make you Polish (like you're not Polish except in your own very odd mind), but of course a knowledge of a country's history is an important part of education (as long as it's reasonably balanced and not just deraned PiS propaganda).

Law / Length of time to receive confirmation of Polish Citizenship [26]


Yes, Polish bureaucrats do their jobs much more to your advantage when unfailing courtesy is extended and an optimistic outlook is maintained.

Also keep in mind, that most bureaucrats do want to help but the system they work in is far too complex and byzantine to explain to outsiders (especially since the sum total doesn't make much sense).

Criticism of their performance is best kept to oneself.

Study / Young Nigerian Sets Record in Polish University [75]


No you're fantasizing about him returning and settling here, quite apart from what he himself might want...


good grades at an iffy school.... what's the big deal?


I'm not in the habit of congraluating people I've never met and will likely (99.999999 % certain) never meet in real life for 'accomplishments' that are not tremendously impressive

Study / Young Nigerian Sets Record in Polish University [75]


In a country he most likely has no desire to return to! (Partly because his credentials would not make him tremendously employable in his chosen field).

We get it, you and delph have major man crushes on him. But let him get on with his life in Nigeria rather than drag him back to a country he most likely does not want to live in....

Study / Young Nigerian Sets Record in Polish University [75]

Until there's actually news that he wants to return to Poland (not a single mention of any idea like that in the article) it's all academic.

The institution he studied at in Poland is exactly the type that curious posters are discourage from attending so his job prospects (should he return to Poland) would be doubtful...

Delph and jon seem to have jungle fever for him, so let's just leave it to them....

Study / Young Nigerian Sets Record in Polish University [75]


The graduation was in Nigeria and there's no indication in the article linked that he wants to return to Poland. Le'ts hope he and ohters like him can help turn Nigeria from a cesspool of corruption and criminality into a developed country. He can do far more for his real home, Nigeria, than he could for Poland.

Study / Young Nigerian Sets Record in Polish University [75]


Yeah, it's not like Africa needs highly educated people....

Study / Young Nigerian Sets Record in Polish University [75]


wyższa szkoła =/= university, and congratulations to him, but I don't that particular institution is at the leading edge of Polish academics, it's like a 'tallest building in Wichita' situation.

Study / Young Nigerian Sets Record in Polish University [75]


Well I looked up the institution in question and it's a wyższa szkoła.... in other words the kind of private school that dominic is constantly advising people to not come to Poland to study at.


If Nigerian students were really that mighty (in collective terms) then maybe Nigeria would be a nicer place to live....

Study / Young Nigerian Sets Record in Polish University [75]

Okay I'm confused.

a quote; "By the time I was writing my final examination and defending my final year project, my CGPA was already 4.79."

There is no way within the Polish sytem to bring up a 4.79 GPA to 5.0 (unless the school is using the old 6.0 'celujący' grade)

Since in Polish higher education 5.0 is generally the highest grade possible once you fall below that you can't bring it back up...

What's up here?

Study / Young Nigerian Sets Record in Polish University [75]


but how can western liberals virtue signal if they help develop their own countries?

News / Thousands of teachers to lose their jobs in Poland [57]

And remember that the current minister of education repeatedly said that no teachers would lose their jobs as a result of the reform.

This means she was either outright openly lying or incompetent. Which is it?

News / Thousands of teachers to lose their jobs in Poland [57]


So... what you're saying is they peaked in the PO era and are now falling in the PiS era.... interesting.....


there's a trend for ya!

Language / Poles struggle with English vowels [42]


Polish is a monocentric language with a single standard form (that almost all speakers aspire to speak). English is pluricentric with many standards (and no signs of conversion) and many speakers do not really aspire to speak the standard of their country.

There is no single English vowel system but rather a bunch of systems that only partly overlap and the distribution of vowels also differs (the apple and father vowels exist in standard American and British but the distribution differs...)

This means that most native speakers can understand someone even if the vowels are all over the place.... which means that many second language learners overestimate how successful they are in producing the vowels of any particular variety....

News / Thousands of teachers to lose their jobs in Poland [57]


Yep. The goal is to actively dumb people down to produce the kind of mindless support for the government that the PRL tried for. PiS = PRL

worldbank.org/en/news/opinion/2016/01/22/polands-education-system-leading-in-europe

Doesn't support the idea of Polish education as failing (well it probably seemed that way to the PiS core constituency of losers).

Polonia / Half-Polish Terrorist attack on the Champs-Elysses [55]


So islamic supremacy is such a potent force for evil that it contaminates even those without much contact with the cultures it originates from.... duly noted!

You do realize this is an argument against large scale muslim immigration to Poland...