Life / Are Poles bigots and xenophobes? [205]


what exactly do you know about Texas that makes you so condescending? i think my point is proven, that Poles think they're better than everyone else, for no good reason.


again, point proven. It wouldn't even cross your mind that it's wrong, you're just trying to come up with justification for an irrational example of bigotry.


ditto

Dude, you're a living proof of what I wrote.

btw, I hope you give a discount on your English lessons.

History / Should visitors to Auschwitz pay an entrance fee? [82]

skysoulmate

well, a lot of museums and memorials where I live have free admission, but they also ask for voluntary donations. I think a lot of Jewish people would donate money to see the place where so many of their fellow people suffered died is kept up and in good repair, don't you?

it's sad that people still think of Auschwitz in terms of costs and politics, and I'm sure there are other items in the Polish national budget where way more money is spent wastefully and nobody cares. I don't think Auschwitz is going to be the one thing that makes Poland go bankrupt, but if foreigners, Jews or otherwise, would be willing to donate money, I say we take it and use it for the intended purpose.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

I think the truth behind it is that the US is undoubtedly the dominant cultural power in the world, and the language just spreads, because new ideas and new concepts are created more frequently in the US than anywhere else, and are just given English names. During the Soviet times, Polish language acquired and adapted a lot of Russian words. When the French dominated the European culture a couple centuries before, the French language was considered the most "sophisticated" and copied everywhere else. I mean, think of how many Latin words we still use because Rome was such a huge cultural center thousands of years ago.

Who knows, maybe at one point we will come up with something better than kielbasa for everyone to remember the Polish name of it.

Love / Are Polish men romantic and caring or... "plain"? [85]


It's not just about being mean. It's the same story with guys from "cities" (and Poland has what, like a city and a half total? lol) picking on guys from "villages," or rich ones picking on poorer ones, or tall ones picking on short ones, or whatever else they can find to be a "notch above" others (mainly in their own mind) and make a good impression on the girls.

And it's not that men in the UK are any different, they just have different criteria on how to judge themselves successful and respectable than being from a city or from a village.