Polonia / Poles in Norway? Polish community in Oslo. [43]

Aha, only just be ultra-careful of the infamous FALSE FRIENDS!!!!

"knulla" in Swedish has a very different meaning from "knulle" in Danish etc...
A "gutt" in Norwegian means "boy" in English ("pojke"/"kille" in Swedish) and would NOT be understood by a solely bilingual English-speaking Swede, for instance.

Don't fall into the similarity trap:-)

Language / Polish childrens books about divorce [5]

"The Fair Princess and the Handsome Prince". I'm not familiar with this title. I presume the reference here is to "książe z bajki", or, "Prince Charming" (....turning out to be a frogLOL)??

Work / Moved to Warszawa (Warsaw) - Swedish/English speaking former IT-Consultant in need of some help/tips [24]

Then I'm merely curious, wawa, is or isn't Poland an ideal choice for overseas firms wishing to establish start-ups abroad? I always believed Polish taxes on small companies were lower than in, say, Germany or Austria (not to even mention Sweden or Denmark, for instance)!

For a while, in but a completely different industry (namely film), Germany's studios in Berlin and Muenchen were outsourcing to Poland, as the latter was deemed more inexpensive, leading the term coined "Hollyłódź", as £ódź was considered more cost-saving for German studios, i.e producers, always trying to save a Pfennig, 'scuse me, Euro:-)

USA, Canada / Pulaski Day (celebrated in the US only) [54]

Pretty good!
At least the weather held up for the most part:-)
Still mad that we missed the first part. Didn't even get to see the tribune/stage with some of the folk dancers, DAARRRN!!!!
Better luck next year (..had to check the rest out for myself on Youtube this time roundLOL)

Bummer(:-

Travel / Suggest me some good clubs/bars in Warsaw [17]

Tak for anbefalningen! Thanks for the rec. I loved the Danish capital from when I was there last. A shame somewhat that it's globalized a bit since I was first there; the Hotel Angleterre near Kongens Nytorv (???) is no longer around, I've been told, plus much of Stroget looks more like Abu Dabi than Denmark etc..

Nonetheless, I loved the people, the language and, of course, the Danish summer:-)

Is this your first time in Poland, by the way?
Go' fornojelse!
:-)

USA, Canada / Pulaski Day (celebrated in the US only) [54]

Caught some of it this afternoon, my wife and I (..though not enough 'cuz we got into Manhattan a little after 2pm - rats!!) As always, the costumes from some of those mountain areas in Southern Poland were awesome.

Dodatkowo SZCZĘŚLIWEGO DNIU PU£ASKIEGO:-)

Law / International student from Poland traveling to Norway on Karta Pobytu? [54]

Are you originally from a European member state, if you don't mind my inquiring?

Travel / Suggest me some good clubs/bars in Warsaw [17]

A smarter choice:-)

Incidentally, from where in Danmark are you all? Curious because I spent my first teen summer abroad eons ago in Northern Jutland. Oh, I also "passed through" Kobenhavn, but didn't stay as long as I would've liked:-)

Never got as far as the Polish capital, unfortunately. Got stuck in some backwater near the German border with my German girlfriend at the timeLOL

Law / International student from Poland traveling to Norway on Karta Pobytu? [54]

As Norway still isn't an EU member, I should think that might be a problem, Then again, I haven't tried:-)
There are several legal issues here, One, if one is a legal resident of Poland (in this case), but NOT a Polish citizen, this will surely complicate matters. As for native-born, as opposed to naturalized, Poles, this could be another story.

Travel / Suggest me some good clubs/bars in Warsaw [17]

Don't compare Warszawa with DK, 'cuz there's NOOOOOO comparison. Honestly, euros/crowns with złoty isn't fair. Sounds realistic I guess at a slightly upscale place in the center of town. If you're from the Danish capital, you'll be spending less for the same as you'll pay in Poland, of that I'm pretty certain:-)

Anyway, god tur!

Travel / Suggest me some good clubs/bars in Warsaw [17]

Probably you'll have better luck at the bigger night spots. As in Kobenhavn, many younger people will know some English:-)

News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

No, Palivec, not anti-German, just anti-falsifying history!!! After all, let's give credit where credit is due:-)

News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

A sort of internal occupation in the East, to some degree though, wasn't it? The GRD was "occupied" after '89 by the BRD's capitalism.

News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

And yet, whilst that picture has changed on the surface at any rate, I sense lurking beneath the exterior of material contentment, many Germans still cannot quite shake that admitted stereotype of the Pole. Surely, with the death of Marcel Reich-Ranicki just this past week or so, who would've ever thought that post-War resp. Wall Germany's "Literaturpapst" would've ended up being a Polish-Jewish transplant??

News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

"It's GERMAN engineering......" thanks, at least in large part during WWII, to JEWISH slave labor:-)))))

History / Slavic vs Germanic thinking.... and the philosophical differences [251]

Ooops is rightLOL

News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

Check out German TV-comedy channels, RTL etc... often rife with the dumbest of "dumb-polak" jokes, the reputation of Poles from the early 90's on of being carjackers, cat burglars and business cheats.

News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

You mean "...get OVER..."?? Oh yes, I concur. Albeit if they don't overcome their negativity with regard to foreigners in their midst, who knows what the former will get AWAY with in the futureLOL

News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

Anti-Polish sentiment in Germany's akin, though certainly not identical, to anti-Turkish sentiment. Poles are resented because again and again they are perceived as low ballers, underbidding native-born (German, English, French...) workers out of decent-paying jobs often due to their willingness to work far below minimum wage and turn out more or less equal-quality work!

In the case of the Turks, their frequent unwillingness to integrate successfully into German society, both linguistically as well as culturally, has caused more than its share of friction, much of it turning quite ugly, if not fatal. Noone accuses Turko-Germans of turning out "inferior" products, yet with both groups, Germans have historically valued incremental achievement in science, industry, the arts and architecture. In all these areas, both the Poles and the Turks appear lacking according to Germany's often lofty standards.

Think of the old saying, "I'd rather be a French peasant than a Gipsy king."

History / Slavic vs Germanic thinking.... and the philosophical differences [251]

Well there are at least two volumes on this most intriguing of topics which I heartily recommend to any and all interested parties out there; one is called "The Germans:Portrait of a People" (written in English!) by Hans Kohn, a German émigré, from around 1960, the other written only in German with no existing translation "Die verspaetete Nation: ueber die politische Verfuehrbarkeit buergerlichen Geistes" - Nationhood Deferred: On The Political Gullibility Of The Bourgeoise Intellect, authored by Helmut Plessner in 1938 under the Nazis and reprinted in 1959. Both of these works, especially the former, attempt to explain "Germanic" thinking/personality to the unannointed Anglo-Saxon reader. Both books however suggest that Germany's latent burgeoning democracy along with the Thirty Years War may account for the Germans' inbred skepticism towards Christianity not to mention a collective rejection of European Enlightenment values cf. with Britain, the US or France, for example.

Not familiar with a book or books about Slavic thinking which go into this sort of detail other than those by Harvard historian Richard Piper on Russia. About Poland, I've yet to read a decent thesis about the subject:-)

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

Thanks, Delphadomine!

Yes, I just checked out the article and it suggests to me anyway that Tusk needs to do a lot more to court foreign businesses within Poland. That the Democrats are gaining in polls taken by a clearly partisan source, I'm reminded of what Towarzysz Lenin is supposed to have said umpteen years back "It's not WHO votes that counts, it's HOW you count the votes!

Happy SaturdayLOL

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

In fields such as mechanical engineering perhaps this is so, but one always reads in the foreign press about the young generation of Polish entrepreneurs in the IT industry etc....

How does that square with what you've said?

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

To which "commie" spirit are you referring, TheOther? I see mostly capitalism alive and well and living in Cracow! Check out the article from last year some time "Krakow: Cud nad Wisłą" and tell me that the spirit of pre-Solidarność Poland is still as palpable:)

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

Poland is of course different because the Gomułka Era is but a distant memory to any contemporary Pole under at least 60!!! The GDR lasted far longer and went FAR, far deeper into the marrow of the nation. See the deeply moving "Lives of Others" to appreciate what I'm saying. Furthermore, Wojciech Jaruszelski was many things, but he was certainly no Walther Ulbricht:-)

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

In The Federal Republic, someone who says "Ich bin stolz, Deutsche(r) zu sein!" = I'm proud to be German! = Jestem dumy(a) być Niemcem(ką) is immediately suspect of being a nut job, some sort of subversive and might even risk an unwanted encounter with local law enforcement! In Poland, is the sentence "Jestem dumy(a) być Polakiem(ką)!" enough to cause fur to fly as it would in Germany?

My point is simply that in certain European countries, national pride remains an open wound!

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

If Germans feel they're supposed to feel guilty about being culturally patriotic as Germans, how then do the Poles feel about being Polish?

To whom are you directing your query, Szczepański?

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

And "evidently" what "must" that have been, pray tell?

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

???? Jarosław Kaczyński a flag waver?? Must have missed something here!

Language / "..Spotykamy vs. spotkamy sie ....." [3]

Somehow wouldn't have imagined that a newspaper could've made such a basic mistake.
Thanks for confirming my suspicions that "SpotYkamy się.." makes grammatical sense within the context of the sentence:-)

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

Distinguish then between partiotism vs. NATIONALISM!! There's the rub. The latter's what the soccer houligans practice, not the former:-)