USA, Canada / Can you BE Polish without SPEAKING Polish in the US? [256]

Wow, so much ignorance and racism in this thread!
I guess if you don't live in the Polish nation, you are not Polish. That means the multiple times our country seized to exist on maps, there were no longer any Poles! lol

And I guess if you don't speak Polish, you're not a Pole. So if you were born in Poland and have some type of speech disorder or are nonverbal you're not Polish at all lol

And finally, if you were born in Poland when it wasn't legally the "Polish nation" anymore, and you were born nonverbal, you're doubly screwed by the Polonia Police!

ROFLMAO I cannot believe this thread has stayed alive for 9 pages.

USA, Canada / I embrace the term "Polak" or "Pollack" in the US [33]

Growing up here in the Northeast U.S. being called a "dumb Polak" is not uncommon. It is used as an ethnic slur, regardless of its actual meaning. It was even used relentlessly in a television sitcom in the 1970's.

We have always been on the outside of the "white" community. Remember, whiteness in America has everything and nothing to do with skin color. I consider myself different from white america, while acknowledging that I am usually seen as white and therefore have all the privileges that go with that.

I don't think people should be divided, though. Experiencing prejudice should make you not want to do the same to other ethnic groups. Prejudice is bad.

(as an aside, no one has EVER pronounced it "poll-ock" around here.)

News / Coup d'état taking shape in Poland with Soros in background? [59]

You guys know that the Soros conspiracy theories exported to you from America are actually only things that the tin hat-wearing right wing conspiracy theorists believe, right? I mean, we laugh our asses off at that ****. Please don't take whatever you're hearing from America about Soros seriously. Stop your government from destroying the judicial branch and democracy in Poland before it's too late. Trump and Putin are closing in.

USA, Canada / Can you BE Polish without SPEAKING Polish in the US? [256]

Being Polish and being raised in Polish culture, even in Diaspora, makes you Polish. Interesting how everyone refuses to answer whether a person born nonverbal in Poland is Polish or not.

Life / Polish tattoo ideas [13]

Adam Mickiewicz. <3 Everyone will be asking you if it's Lennon lol
There are many beautiful Madonnas from Poland. I like your idea.
There's also the option of getting symbols from our traditional Easter egg patterns, or from folk art.