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7 Oct 2012 / #1
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The time is nearing for my first visit to Poland. As I stated in my initial post on the forum, I am an African American man planning on starting a new life in Warsaw after I graduate from my university in a year. In May of 2013, I will take my first trip there as something of a "preview of things to come," if you will. I will be flying out alone and finding housing on my own. I do, however, have a few Polish penpals who have said they want to hangout as soon as I arrive. After discussing this with a few of close friends from my childhood, they seemed to be a bit worried. There was the outlandish, stereotypical "What if those people are really psycho neo nazis who want to kill you" theory and quite a few others that I simply wrote off. I am not ignorant to the fact that everyone on the internet is not who they say they are but I doubt people I've had hour-long Skype cam conversations with for months are murderers. My uncle, who is an African American and Turkish man, said that he did not like the area of Poland he visited a year ago (Katowice) but assured me Warsaw would be fine. He said and I quote, "Katowice has a lot of racists but Warsaw shouldn't be too bad, it is the capital after all." I am not exactly sold on that being an acceptable example of how tolerable it is.
If there are any other African Americans who have can shed light on this, please chime in. I'd also be interested in hearing comments from Polish men and women on the matter. I am typically quiet and well-mannered so I doubt that I'd even be noticed but, on the other hand it would be hard not to notice a black man in a European country that receives so few immigrants. When I mentioned my meek demeanor to a friend, she claimed I was "too handsome not to notice."
The time is nearing for my first visit to Poland. As I stated in my initial post on the forum, I am an African American man planning on starting a new life in Warsaw after I graduate from my university in a year. In May of 2013, I will take my first trip there as something of a "preview of things to come," if you will. I will be flying out alone and finding housing on my own. I do, however, have a few Polish penpals who have said they want to hangout as soon as I arrive. After discussing this with a few of close friends from my childhood, they seemed to be a bit worried. There was the outlandish, stereotypical "What if those people are really psycho neo nazis who want to kill you" theory and quite a few others that I simply wrote off. I am not ignorant to the fact that everyone on the internet is not who they say they are but I doubt people I've had hour-long Skype cam conversations with for months are murderers. My uncle, who is an African American and Turkish man, said that he did not like the area of Poland he visited a year ago (Katowice) but assured me Warsaw would be fine. He said and I quote, "Katowice has a lot of racists but Warsaw shouldn't be too bad, it is the capital after all." I am not exactly sold on that being an acceptable example of how tolerable it is.
If there are any other African Americans who have can shed light on this, please chime in. I'd also be interested in hearing comments from Polish men and women on the matter. I am typically quiet and well-mannered so I doubt that I'd even be noticed but, on the other hand it would be hard not to notice a black man in a European country that receives so few immigrants. When I mentioned my meek demeanor to a friend, she claimed I was "too handsome not to notice."