Life / Racism in Poland - the future [441]

MareGaea, I'm more happy that you haven't been around that much.

Everything "UsefullIdiot", said in his above post is actually true. Not true in the sense that he made it up and says it's true, but true in the sense that he/I can actually prove what he said with links, pictures and history books. What's up with bashing that? Are you afraid of the truth?

Dariusz

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]

Beelzebub; where in Poland do you live? I come from the Katowice area, and all the people I met there are cheery, positive, hard working and never really complain. In case they do, I haven't heard it yet. Everytime I visit, I see new malls, new roads, new buildings coming up. I see the new skyscrapers coming up over the whole of Poland, like the one in Sopot, I see europe opening up itself for financial rewards through hard work and business opportunities. I have several polish friends here in Norway who actually dream of moving back home and getting a better start, thanks to the money they saved up while working abroad. A couple of them have started building houses and establishing business connections...I have to say, from my personal perspective, I haven't really felt that "the world is coming to an end", feeling from any of them. Sure, the system isn't perfect, but it's getting there. Every month I read good news from Poland.

Maybe a polish man hurt you, and you now feel a little angry at him because he was polish? Maybe you just don't get the polish "mentality" of saying one thing, but meaning another? My wife is polish, grew up most of her life in the states, and is with me here in Norway now. The norwegian mentality is quite different from the states, she does not understand irony, which is HUGE in norway, so we've had quite a few funny moments...mostly with her as the victim...but all in good spirit...she doesn't get upset or question norwegian people because of that. If I'm really wrong here....sorry!

Dariusz

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]

I have to say, half of the negative comments about poland/polish life could just as well be exchanged with "norway". A horrendous tax-system, incompetent state workers, bad roads, no infrastructure, 30 year old trains, old people lying dead in their apartments for moths before anyone noticing, everything useful, like cars/motorcycles costing twice as much as in neighbouring sweden, really stupid politicians who want to control every aspect of your life from what you eat to when you have to go home from the pub..

Poland has the same problems as any other country. Of course, since many of us know the polish system pretty good, it's easy to bash it, but just ask any other european about his government and general status of their country, and they will repeat most of what you say...in one form or another. The difference is that Poland is actually getting better, while things in Norway are getting worse....

Dariusz

Life / Poles are not racist [873]

SeanBM;

I actually had to do an extra security check in the army, because my father had a polish passport. I got a pretty good and expensive education from them, but got stuck mowing the lawn outside the officers quarters for a whole month, before I finally got to talk to the intelligence officer, and tell him my dad being Polish really didn't pose a threat to the norwegian national security....so they let me do my assignment. But what if I was lying, and was a spy? They did give me access to some secret material. Anyhow...

Who imports a million immigrants? Germany, England, France, Holland, Spain, Sweden to mention some. Norway is such a small country, but if we weren't I promise you we would have our own million too. By 2050, Oslo will have 50% non-norwegians. Can you say c**p?

We should go to North Korea and check it out! See how they treat us. And bring a photo of a Barrack Obama to show them.

Dariusz

Life / Poles are not racist [873]

SeanBM; Hmmm...I'm actually not really clear on what you meant by that last statement...care to elaborate? (I would like to reply...)

Dariusz

Life / Poles are not racist [873]

The point is, if no third world person would come into Poland, there would be no racism to speak about in Poland.

But if you imported 1 million africans to Poland, there would be an OUTBREAK of racism, and you would see dozens of anti-racist organisations pop up like mushrooms in the springtime. There would be debates in schools, in the government. There would be anti-racist protests, marches, concerts and so on. Millions of Zloty would have to be allocated for government programs to stem this sudden outbreak of racism, and a new minister of diversity would have to be elected, along with his or her's own cabinet of little workers.

There would be a whole INDUSTRY of anti-racism activities going on 24/7....

So let's see...no coloured people in Poland = No racism, lot's of coloured people in Poland = Lot's of racism!

I know, I know, but then we would not have "diversity", like kebabstores or different music, or, or....eh...."diversity"...but isn't that a low price to pay for not having racism??

So how do you stop racism? Stop importing people of colour to an european nation. (For those of you who will complain about inbreeding, we have lot's of european countries to mix with!).

Dariusz