History / Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy. The Testimony of Survivors. [22]

Spot on! Heroes aren't all Rambo types! ADRENOLIN is responsible for more acts of pure bravery than heroísm-:)

History / Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy. The Testimony of Survivors. [22]

Rich, as usual you're being unduly cynical. Heroism isn't "born", it often comes at the spur of the moment!

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Exactly the sort you should NOT avoid, Rich!! If you want your vacation to be just like home....STAY HOME-:))
The smart travellers's the guy or gal who goes exactly to the places the guidebooks either omit or advise against.
Heck, if you don't believe me, ask Rick Steves.

History / Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy. The Testimony of Survivors. [22]

A noble cause remains precisely that even if you don't happen to believe in it! Had the Allies taken such a position, why, we'd all still be living under the jackboot,

if we'd even be living at all!

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Makes sense.

History / Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy. The Testimony of Survivors. [22]

Or an impetuously misguided hero, take your pick-:)

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Agreed.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Nearly twenty years back or so. Still the same country, Johnny. National character never changes completely, only on the surface perhaps.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Yep, gotta side with Oathbreaker on that one I'm afraid. @Mafketis, although frequently middle-aged Poles do for sure harbor an often suspicious nature, I did find the Polish language to be a definite ice breaker, especially among women. Again, only in my own experience.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Poles both those whom I've met on holiday as well as in Poland have a well-deserved reputation for being a forthright bunch, not likely to mince words, as the expression goes, yet famous for their hospitality:-) While I never had any specific difficulties, many Polish people are indeed given to firing lots of personal questions at American-born, Polish-speaking visitors who are thought to be Jewish, e.g. "No, dlaczego pan mowi po polsku?" etc.

However, I'm only speaking from my experience, in Poland as well as at home!

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Faulty logic! It's therefore as "fraudulent" of the native to practice their lacking English on you according to your thinking.

And if they're speaking to you in a language other than their own, they are practicing, just as I am practicing my Polish in Poland

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Oh, horrors Rich! Did you sprain your pride? You know I'm right, so why fight?-: )All countries automatically appreciate it when foreign tourists make a concerted effort to speak their language..even the Poles. I had zero problems whatsoever.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

But an effective one, as you can readily see.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

"Normal, everyday" English need not be excessively or gratuitously vulgar either.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Communication though can be either aesthetically pleasing or ugly and purposely offensive-:) In emergency situations, knowing even a bare minimum of the target language can save a life. You people are simply parroting that '6O's nonsense.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Quit projecting, Ironside! You're only making a bigger fool out of yourself than per usual LOL

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

As but a mere visitor to any country, Poles visiting the States or certainly vice-versa, learning to speak or communicate properly in the target or native tongue of the country is nothing other than sheer common courtesy and respect, as I've expatiated here on a number of occasions. I'd go as far as to say such is a requirement.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

... who are the foreign tourists whom you so despise!

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

...and money, but I guess that never occurred to you.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

Zlo = evil

Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]

In your (most) humble and ethnocentric opinion!

Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]

Brits then obviously aren't as hung up about their masculinity as Yanks-:)

Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]

Englíshmen though I've heard use "lovely" as a term of endearment in contrast with the Americans.

Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]

How about "Jaka sliczna!" as a term of romantic admiration?

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

The Soviet Union had a lot of other cockamamy notions, any resemblance either to the truth or to reality being entirely coincidental-:)

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

If the mother is of Jewish heritage, the immediate offspring is automatically Jewish, like Jesus. Clear enough?

Genealogy / Polish looks? - part 2 [81]

Just look at Duda.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Judaism is matrilineal.

Life / The Pole, as an example of a perfect Russophobe, in a spherical vacuum [42]

Much like accusing Poles of (lingering) Germanophobia, isn't it? Heck, their bigger, expansionist, mega-richer, bullying neighbor to the west maligns, marrauders, and murders her citizens, and now it's kumbaya time at the ol' hacienda? Polish Russophobia's imminently understandable, if for different reasons-:)

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Or to put a finer point on the question, what do GENTILES owe Jews?