When I got back from visting relatives in Poland I got asked all sorts of questions about if my family all slept together in one bed and just the general assumption was made that Poland is a backwards nation with no modern ammenities.
I have been asked what its like to live in a communist country...do they have colour telly , is it true it snows all the time , do people have cars...all this from apparently educated English people....?
When I was in my goodbye party before going there, this swedish colleague asks me "how far from Europe will you be doing this Internship?" Pfffffff!!! Good lord they have good education levels in Sweden!
Hahahaha my Norwegian side is full of joy! That is a proof of the Sweeds beeing generally DUMB! bwuhaah xD
The same reason I am asked them. A lot of English people know little or nothing about Poland, those of us English who have visited Poland are asked questions sometimes.
What's your problem with that?!?
You have to be Polish to know something about Poland now?
OK, obviously PolskaDoll has a lot of knowledge about my country and so you do. Perhaps more than me. LOLOLOL Hands up.
Yes but that's not what you said now is it. Sidestepping. Don't be ambiguous.
Why are you being asked questions about Poland? This is bloody hilarious.
About Polish cooking? How much do YOU know?
You have to be Polish to know something about Poland now?
Apparently, or you can be Polish and not offer anything constructive about Poland at all....Ms Wysp.
OK, obviously PolskaDoll has a lot of knowledge about my country and so you do.
If you have more knowledge then you don't show it. I see today a bad translation from you, insults and anger. So sometimes it seems that relying more on the opinion of someone who researches the country rather than has chip on shoulder about it is more than reliable.
Well, get this, I'm not even Polish (my name is...I am an American) but my little sister who is a scientist tells me all the time about other scientists asking her "how was it growing up under the boot of the communists" or commenting as if she'd endured this....
We grew up in the US. Likewise, during my first deployment to this wonderful country (I'm in Iraq) we worked quite a bit with Poland's GROM special operations types. One of our officers (to use the slang here) "threw me under the bus" and sent me to mingle, thinking I spoke the language. Awkward to say the least....he assumed, I guess, because of the name.
My grandfather grew up in Poland....but I didn't even know what a Pierogi was until I was 23...and my girlfriend who was part Polish had family making these things.
I was even afraid of what horrors might be inside them... so now I try to learn more and more. Grandfather took many secrets to his grave.
Well since that's not QUITE on topic, I'll step aside now.
California, we're talking about the discoteques. A girl, totally surprised asked 'do you have discos in Poland' To my remark 'Yes, and the richest ones even have an electricity' she responded 'wow, cool!'
Many fell for the story that peeps in Poland live in caves and ride camels, for there are no cars, hence no roads. I was actually going for months making up ridiculously stupid visions of Poland and a few of the peeps who were listening to it, totally fell for it.
I will never be offended by whatever Americans come up with, they can be so unbelievably stupid its hilarius.
I'm sure the favor could be returned to your own countrymen...although in fairness some areas of the US are so convinced they are superior to or more enlightened than everyone else on the planet (sorry LA and New York, love you guys...) that it shocks them that everyone else doesn't live in a hovel...even in their own country. Hollywood doesn't help. I grew up in NC...and spent years trying to convince people I did not live in a tar paper shack or want to marry my sister. and I'm an American. My mom was a schoolteacher and one of her friends' sons was a nuclear engineer on a submarine...and he ran into the same thing.
People who judge based on nationality or where you live are stupid period, not just the ones from America who do it.
Not such a silly question considering how the gun-fearing Libs have disarmed police in England. That's it, have a problem with criminals having illegal guns? Disarm the law-abiding and law enforcers... Liberalism's "solutions" are always exactly backwards.
I have heard of this before, that some older generation ethnic immigrants intentionally did this so their children would assimilate rather than cling to their old culture.
Nowadays it seems it is trendy to sh!t all over the culture of where they arrive and demand special accommodation. I’m not saying the Polish are like this by many others are.
1...Does Poland have electricity? 2...Are there any restaurants? 3...Does Poland have telephones? 4...Is there 'Starbucks' in Warsaw? 5...Can you tell me how many prisons are in Poland, please write mi some...(from an actual PF poster)
In Birmingham (England, not Alabama) I was once asked, "Poland, that's near Greenland, innit?"
Also, when preparing to come to my wedding in Poland my brother-in-law asked, "Do they have beer in Poland? Cos I've only heard of vodka and I don't drink it".
