Life / Communication and Polish culture [7]

Mishima Yukio's generation wasn't exactly crazy about us stinky, loutish, primitíve round eye either, so the dislike cuts both ways, as I've expatiated here at some length.

Life / Communication and Polish culture [7]

Don't judge them by YOUR standards of culturally or socially "correct" behavior-:)

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Earthly thoughts

Life / Communication and Polish culture [7]

Do try your level best not to impute ethnocentric notions to another culture. Poles I know and have worked with for years simply have often a more up front way of expressing themselves than Anglo-Saxons are used to.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Blew what? Folks here once claimed a Catholic could never be President as their allegiance would be to Rome, not AmericaLOL

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Julian Tuwim and Artur Rubinstein considered themselves proud Polish Jews, historically Jewish, but Polish by birth as well as nationality!

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

I don't want gentiles to "emulate" Jews, just allow us to live together in peace.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

You're Russian then. Awwrigt, be cagey, don't tell. You'll trip yourself up eventually anyhow. As far as your post, both Germany and Poland scarcely had a monopoly on anti-Semitism. How about Romania, Ukraine, and Russiá?

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

As a German, you'd be familiar with such in your country's history, unless you also happen to be Jewish.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Kennst du vielleicht "The Milgram Experiments"? Do you know the Milgram Experiments perchance ?

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Education is the key in combatting bigotry aka ignorance.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

@Novichok, I am assimilated, but not a convert.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Go back to grade school!

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Catholics were a majority, Jews weren't!

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Assimilated Jews were loyal Poles, Germans, French etc.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Never?! Really. Guess you were more fortunate than most:-)

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

People, why should anti-Semitism remain such a shock? Look at the facts. Practically no other European country has been as staunchly Roman Catholic as Poland. What language did to serve as the glue to hold together all German lands, faith did for the Polish people.The Church preached that the Jews crucified Jesus and the Poles swallowed it hook line and sinker, with precious few exceptions

Travel / Architecture style in Poland [24]

Having lived in as well as travelled through Germany, Bavaria would without a doubt be the most majestic and breathtaking, Upper Bavaria such as Werdenfelser Land in particular!

Language / Words with subtle differences in Polish language (or are they complete synonyms?) [8]

Makes sense to me too.

Language / Words with subtle differences in Polish language (or are they complete synonyms?) [8]

Apropos, have often wondered whether or not "swiat" and "swiatlo" might be distantly related. Merely a thought as I've been unable to access a sufficiently thorough Polish etymological dictionary-

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

Why are you threatened by him?

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Please read #525, CAREFULLY this time!

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

Funny, Hitler basically said the same thing LOL

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

Probably because most of us already know your agenda. Oh, by the way, champ, WE'LL kindly be the judge of what is "revolutionary" and "profound", not you :-)

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

Typical Reagan Era Trumpist! Why exploit low-wage foreigners? The work culture of Northern Europe must change.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

@DirkDiggler, tell assimilated Polish Jews like Tuwim or Tadeusz Róziewicz that they aren't "Polish" or have no true polskosc.LOL

History / What makes you feel Polish? [167]

...don't forget the ground up cracked pepper corns plus a hard boiled egg! Cures all ills. Do you at least enjoy Zubrówka?

History / What makes you feel Polish? [167]

How Polish do you feel when you drink bimber?

Po polsku / Kobiety odrzucają politykę kościoła [56]

Johnny nie rozumie niczego o nauceLOL

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

He, Pileckí, Socha, and Lolek Wójtyla are among the true heroes of Poland!