Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]

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Sure we're talking about the same Poland or are you just being your typically provocative little self?

Off-Topic / American Jew Voice in Poland [93]

Because you are ethnocentric, Rich! You're entitled to your own opinions, but NOT to your own facts.

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

What makes you say that? Is reality uncomfortable to you?

Off-Topic / American Jew Voice in Poland [93]

Yo, Hindus are technically "Indo-Aryan", therefore, although darker-skinned than Swedes or Norwegians, nonetheless belong to the Caucasian race, case closed, acceptable or not.

Off-Topic / American Jew Voice in Poland [93]

Jews again are technically "Caucasians", as are Hindus, Georgians, Turks and any number of other related groups. Whether they are as light-haired, light-eyed and fair skinned as Poles, for instance, it depends on how assimilated the Jews in question are:-)

For that matter there are plenty of shortish, stocky dark-haired, brown-eyed Poles, clearly "white", yet not fitting the stereotype of the blond, blue-eyed Pole of Communist propaganda.

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

Add taut facial features, generally straight as opposed to prominent aquiline noses, lips tending to the thin side, above all, a rather coarse flaxen hair, often fair eye color and a squarish chin.

Height again tends to vary, but on the whole, most Poles (both men and women) tend to be tallish.

Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [61]

I'm traif, sue me:-) He-he!

My tevilin-wearing grandfather was a pork-eating German Jew who LOVED bacon and pigs knuckles.

Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [61]

I'm there, maf, just serve it up and I'll come a-runnin'.

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

Merkel grew up in the former East though, and so knows Russian, though not as well as English, I'm sure:-) Putin speaks fluent German too.

Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [61]

Sounds to me regrettably like low-fat "healthy" cooking has invaded the Polish kitchen as well:-)

Give me a good ol' Polish greasy spoon with lots of fatty dishes, kiszka prepared the traditional way, heaping portions of bigos, pirogi, red cabbage, potatoes, home-baked country bread ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!!! Can't get enough of it, even if someday I'll need a cardiac surgeon.

lol

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

Correct, little other than the proverbial "glorified messenger boy" for HIS boss, the Kremlin...and of course, the KGB. He was a toady and a lickspittle then, and he hasn't changed his spots since. Add to that, a bully through and through!

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

It is also from these two societies that most Jews throughout the world today originate!
Both Poland and Russia especially have ACTIVE, VIBRANT Jewish communities, often composed of both local as well as even "foreign"-born Jews who returned to the land of their direct ancestors.

By contrast, the former Soviet satelites, presently the Baltic States, are but a virtual graveyard for Jews.
The comparison speaks for itself, I think:-)

Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]

Netanjahu nie mial racji, tak jest.

Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]

Exakt, Jaskier!

@Spike31,
IPN-Ustawa jest, ale Duda tekst wreszscie zmienil.

Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]

Choc ja byla zmienila, jak tlumaczysz IPN-Ustawe Prezes'a Dudy przed rokiem? Czy to bylo wlasnie "wolnosc slowa"??

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Thought so. Didn't seem like much of a stretch either. Thanks!

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Wonder whether "Khan" of "Genghis Khan" might have a connection with the identical Arab surname "Khan", such as "Ali Khan".
Any ideas?

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Amen, TheOther!

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

I'm not certain.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Nor am I completely.

What's the alternative though? Surely a person's ethnic origin can be traced somehow.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

The Nazis used to say, "Was er glaubt ist einerlei, in der Rasse liegt die Schweinerei!" - Never mind to whom he prays, the rotten mess lies in the race

Only the uninformed and undereducated believe in a race of humans, undefiled by mixing. It's historically impossible, now proven through DNA testing.
For $99 bucks, a person can pay to find out their ethnic breakdown.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

"Pure " anybody's a lotta manure, period.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

'Course it is.

Now I'll grant ya, Budenz in the late 19th century DID go a bit over the top by suggesting/ theorizing that there was a clear link between the Magyars and the Turks.

This was and is pure conjecture:-)

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

See post #163.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

The transmigration of peoples across the Steppes of Asia and past the Ural Mts. well into (along with further into) the so-called "Hungarian Basin" near the Carpathian region of Eastern Europe is a proven fact, Vlad, no longer some theory.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Bavarians certainly have.

Check out an older photograph of the director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A born Munchner, his face looks almost Circassian!

Love / Foreign Older vs Younger Relationships In Poland [20]

Forty-five and twenty-nine's hardly a Lolita complex:-) Such relationships are much more common than most of us imagine.

UK, Ireland / Are the Polish in the UK actually rude or bitter? [38]

True, Miloslaw!

Poles though often have their preconceived notion about who someone "has to be" blurted out right to their face so fast, a body can barely answer back.

It's fine to be honest, so long as it's constructive commentary. If it's only a question of saying the first thing that comes to one's lips, that seems to me just

so much raw, undigested bile, reeking of social halitosis.

I prefer, if a person has nothing polite, at least constructively pleasant to say, simply keep quiet or one risks a wasted expense of negative energy.

UK, Ireland / Are the Polish in the UK actually rude or bitter? [38]

Many Poles ARE for sure blunt to a fault, direct, opinionated, and frequently in one's face if they have something to say. They surely are not "rude" in the sense of being

intentionally unpleasant. Like the Israelis, they waste little time with chit-chat or warming up in the bullpen.

This is has been my experience.

Genealogy / Polish surnames of Hungarian / Ruthenian / Rusyn origin [14]

Makes as much sense as any explanation. Thanks, DominicB!