History / Is Jozef Pilsudski the king of modern Poles? [138]

That wouldn't be the time when the Germans slaughtered each in the 30 years war and looked to Poland (The country that guaranteed its citizens religious toleration in its law) as a place of refuge would it?

Genealogy / Genetic difference between Poles and selected others. [83]

I thought you were Scottish that is very different from English.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]


Lol Lol Lol this is gold

Travel / Rented car from Germany to Poland [15]


Far to alarmist.

Work / Is it normal for companies/schools in Poland to be rude? [116]


My friend the day that the unions take over will be the day that the Polish education system will start getting dumbed down just like in Britain.

Work / Is it normal for companies/schools in Poland to be rude? [116]

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are you seriously telling me that the teaching of numeracy and literacy is more stringent or thorough in the UK? were the unions are boss, and everyone must have prizes and you don't fail it's called deferred achievement. You are seriously kidding yourself.

Work / Is it normal for companies/schools in Poland to be rude? [116]


Must be a European phenomenon.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]

MareGaea
they tried to eliminate its entire Intelligentsia, surely that is bad enough. By targeting a certain group of people because of their station in life and eliminating them for that reason is surely genocide.

Life / You are Polish if... [433]


sounds like residents of any country in world, being criticized by residents from some other part of the world.

Life / Why do you choose to stay in Poland, why not other country? [152]


Do you think they are increasing in Poland though? Or it will never get quite as bad?

Law / The 'Secret' of Poland's Economic Success [83]

Well their finance minister, jacek Rostowski. has a Master in economics ( from the London school of economics) has a master degree in history, same uni. As well as a Bachelor of Science – International Relations, University College London. He was born in the UK and apart from English, he is fluent in French, Russian, Polish and German.

Born into a Polish exile family in London. During the Second World War his father, Roman Rostowski, served as personal Secretary to Tomasz Arciszewski, Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile and did not return to Poland after the war. In the 1950s, Roman Rostowski worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office with postings to Kenya, Mauritius and the Seychelles where Jacek Rostowski spent much of his childhood.

During the early 1980s he was active in the Polish Solidarity Campaign, a London based Solidarity support group. From 1989 to 1991 during Poland’s great economic transformation following the fall of communism, Vincent-Rostowski was an advisor to the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Leszek Balcerowicz.

In the early 90s Vincent-Rostowski also advised the Russian Federation on macroeconomic policy. From 1995 he has been Professor of Economics and was the head of the Department of Economics at the Central European University in Budapest during the periods: 1995-2000 and 2005-2006 (Post suspended following appointment as Polish Finance Minister.

During the years 1997 to 2000, Vincent-Rostowski was Chairman of the Macro-economic Policy Committee at the Polish Ministry of Finance.He is one of the co-founders of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). He was also a member of the Foundation’s Council.From 2002 to 2004 he was an Economic Advisor to the National Bank of Poland.

In 2004 Vincent-Rostowski was appointed Economic Advisor to Bank PEKAO SA. He left this post in November 2007.He was a member of UK Conservative Party. It was announced in the beginning of 2010 that he became member of Platforma Obywatelska two months earlier.

I would trust him, i doubt if there is a more competent finance minister in Europe, he also won finance minister of the year award from the Banker's Magazine.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


i think that includes class.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


But surely if they include ethnic before national than why bother with national. after all isn't nationality indicative of ethnicity, or does nationality include groups within a nation like different classes.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


I get you, but that is already covered by ethnicity, so why bother repeating it.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


indeed it is not, but surely ethnicity includes everyone regardless of nationality. So why bother including national groups, unless they mean something different.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]

Ethnic groups would mean Soviets kill all Slavs

Religious groups would mean Soviets kill all Roman Catholics

The Soviets didn't do any of those.[/quote]

I'am still not sure if that is right. according to this how would you describe somebody of Polish ethnicity living in Russia, if you include Russians and Poles in the same ethnic group. Since you don't have to be a Polish national necessarily.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


sorry but this argument still does not make sense to me. According to you there is no way of distinguishing a pole living in Russia from a Russian, if he happens not to have a Polish nationality. And gain this isn't exactly about numbers it is about intent.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]

Right, so we go back to the original question why the distinction between ethnicity and national group.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


By that you mean a national group, which seems distinct from an ethnic group and is classified as genocide if targeted for extermination. like the Cambodian case for instance, were a whole group was targeted, and to my knowledge is classified as genocide.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


From my understanding the people that were targeted were a social class like those who were non-workers. And the whole thing was a genocide.

Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]


I know a Polish lady here in Australia who was explaining a story at a gathering, involving a hairdresser, and she did not know the word for hair dryer or hair drying. So instead she said that he gave her a blow job:) I almost choked to death on orange juice because of my outburst of laughter

Language / What are the Polish words of Mongol origin? [14]

papagarth ( this is , shall we say, a curriocity : I've learned that the Mongols left er, DNA samples in poland, but are there words other than a variant of 'horde' borrowed from Mongolian to Polish ?)

There is a Tatar minority of about 10 000 strong or less on Poland's eastern borders. In Poland they are Referred to as Tatars, and are of the Muslim faith. They have a long history of fighting as mercenaries for various Polish armies. Their original incursion into southern Poland took place in the 12 hundreds, when they practiced their horde activities.

Work / Why Poland employers are afraid of hiring any foreign nationals? [171]


Actually stats show that they three times less likely to commit crimes than the locals.

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]


that bit sounds about right, but i would add fat and stupid to the mix as well.

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]


highest average IQ at 107, compared with 100 across Britain. The UK is also beaten by Poland (106), Sweden (104), Italy (102), Austria (101) and Switzerland (101).
But Britons are brighter than people in Belgium (99), Spain (98), Hungary (98), Russia (96), Greece (95), France (94), Romania (94), Turkey (90) and Serbia, which finishes bottom with 89.

it's 98 for the US by the way.

So not really, i think knowledge is still quite a good indicator.

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]


I'am just responding to a previous American who did just that posted IQ results, seeing how contradictory they were to common assumption i countered them with other results.


Once again the razor sharp American wit. Actually if you could've been bothered to learn something about your country's history you would realize that America preceded Australia in accommodating what you call 'misfits of society'

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]


No, you don't know your history criminals were also shipped to America, it only ended after they gained their independence.

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

That is true, but the vast majority of Australians were later, or like me (2001) very recent arrivals.

News / What the Polish government do to bring back home Polish immigrants? [116]

Well Kris you clearly don't know much about Polish politics, on paper they probably have the most competent government in Europe.

[Maybe if people actually steered for change, rather than voting in the same old typical cronies Poland would have more to offer its people. Namely, quality of life, good economy, and lower rental/accommodation costs.]

claptrap, if you really haven't got a clue what you are talking about it's best to keep quiet.

[2. That candidate countries have a working market economy, capable of competing effectively on EU markets.]
Under that criteria they are way ahead of Ireland, they have a more stable economy which isn't going through a crisis right now and currently has the highest growth rate in Europe. I think it should be Ireland that you should be worried about so that it doesn't get kicked out of the Euro Zone.

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]


Not irritated at all, but I am a citizen you know.