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Posts by Lyzko  

Joined: 12 Jul 2013 / Male ♂
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From: New York, USA
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Lyzko   
8 Jul 2021
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.
Lyzko   
8 Jul 2021
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.
Lyzko   
8 Jul 2021
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!
Lyzko   
5 Jul 2021
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
Lyzko   
5 Jul 2021
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.
Lyzko   
5 Jul 2021
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.
Lyzko   
5 Jul 2021
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.
Lyzko   
1 Jul 2021
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-:)
Lyzko   
1 Jul 2021
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?
Lyzko   
30 Jun 2021
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-:)
Lyzko   
30 Jun 2021
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

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