News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Never once suggested that Braun represents a majority of Poles, thank G-d!
However, it's not too dissimilar to that Philipp Jenninger chap in the German Bundestag,
oh way back in the late '80's, whose flip comments on Hitler's rise being quite understandable,
caused shock waves throughout the country like you wouldn't believe.

We heard the same thing back then, e.g."Jenninger doesn't represent present German values.." etc.
Let's hope this fella Braun just a crackpot anomaly.

@That's right, Rich. Make the perp a victim and the defender a criminal. Nice one.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

@Paulina, I do indeed know the difference
between the government and the Sejm, as I'm aware of
the difference between your president vs. your premiere!

That doesn't change the simple fact that Braun believes he's
acting in the interests of his country which is a pretty pathetic
commentary on Poland.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Braun is a member of the Sejm, yes?
Well then, according to my logic, he is a representative
of the Polish gov't.

I trust though, that his values do not in any way represent Polish
national values.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

@Crnogorac3,

Jews have been living in Poland since approximately the 13th century, albeit
not amicably, until nearly 600 years after the fact, nonetheless, side by side
with their Christian brethren. Polish Christians and their Jewish fellow citizens
influenced one another in both cuisine as well as culture. Practically in no
other European society was the symbiosis as complete as in pre-War Poland.

For someone who represents the Polish government to engage in such a
despicable stunt, such a hateful message, not to mention in the end anti-
Christian, indicates a mental disorder.

It doesn't take a shrink to figure that one out!!

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

So let me understand something. This fellow Braun extinguished the Hanukkah candles with a
fire extinguisher because he felt such a ceremony had no place in the Sejm??

If so, he really is a cretin and should be hauled up on charges of anti-semitism!

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]

Nearly every education system with which I'm familiar
will naturally reflect those cultural, not to mention religious,
values with which their pupils will be imbued.

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]

Good point, Atch. Pestolazzi included!

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Przelotnyptak,
Seemed to have missed something here. Not all Arabs are jihadists any more than all Israelis
are haters of all Palestinians. Meier Kahane is long dead, thank heaven.

History / Good enough for British - Joseph Conrad? Poland-born novelist. [30]

Most assuredly not.

History / Good enough for British - Joseph Conrad? Poland-born novelist. [30]

Noteworthy indeed that Conrad's mother tongue was Polish when one reads what he was able to compose so beautifully in English.
While there are many such examples of multilingual writers who often wrote in a language not their first language, such as Beckett, Nabokov,
Czeslaw Milosc, Josef Brodsky and others, it's nonetheless astounding.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Przelotnyptak, would you have wanted the Nazis to have taken out their axes to destroy
YOUR people??

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Maf, it depends on whom you talk to.
The Swedish press is obviously not thrilled about having them there.
Yet, I've heard other reports from Swedes with no particular axe to grind!

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

As I've explained countless times, Rich, Sweden is a highly industrialized country,
with a low birthrate, which is desperately in need of foreign labor as there is so little
homegrown work force left as there was in former times.

Somalis seem to fit the bill; they're cheap, they often know English from their home country,
and they're willing.

Actually, I met someone from Somalia here in Fort Lee who was visiting
with his friends from Stockholm. After I addressed him in Swedish, he replied
rather embarrassed in halting English, telling me that while he was expected to
at enroll in an informal, FREE Swedish language course sponsored by the Swedish
gov't., people flat refused to speak to him in Swedish and so was forced to speak English lol

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Rich, China and Japan are a essentially monoracial, culturally homogeneous societies,
quite in contrast to those multi-ethnic. highly industrialized countries such as Germany or the US.

However Japan has a limited immigration culture, all but exclusively from Korea and Southeast Asia,
who by all accounts are treated as were the traditional "wetback" Mexican here at home.

China is a tremendous country, larger even than North America and second only in land mass to Russia.
It's need for outside labor therefore is for all intents and purposes non-existent.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Rich, immigrants, like taxes, are a necessary, if at the same time unavoidable, evil!
Don't you know anything about capitalist economics 101?

Unfortunately, there'll always remain certain sectors of the industrialized world economy
in which jobs can only be filled by Third-world, no longer even First-world, foreigners.

Work / Working in Poland without speaking Polish [75]

Polska mowa, trudna mowa, Alien! Surely even you as a native speaker can appreciate that:-)

Work / Working in Poland without speaking Polish [75]

A good move.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Spot on, Maf, as usual!
Continental Europe, I include Britain here, is not the equivalent melting pot culture
of the United States. It's downright naive to the point of childish to expect traditionally
homogeneous societies such as Germany, Poland or Sweden, for example, to suddenly
fling their doors wide open to non-European, Third World immigrants whose social, not to mention
religious, values are so markedly different from their own.

Sure, we're all human beings whose core values revolve around some form of family unit, language,
community etc. Nevertheless, it's completely unfair as well as unrealistic to place a bunch of Iranian
Muslims into a small to medium sized Polish city, and wonder why there's resentment among the native
locals.

Such a scenario's as unfair to the migrants as it is to the local Poles.

Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [30]

@Cojestdocholery, it certainly is what I said!
As a non-native English speaker, you might not have caught my entire
drift.

Classifieds / Searching for running businesses on sale [2]

Have you received my private mail in this regard?

News / Hołownia - a rising star in Polish politics? [94]

Many singers typically sing convincingly in several languages.
Look at Abba, Nina Hagen, Adele etc......

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Amen, Korvinus! That's tellin' 'em.
@Rich, you continually lump all immigrants into one basket.
That's like throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]

(Hans) Frank though was most emphatically an occupier, rather than
a resident of Wawel. Moreover, it seems certain historical facts have
escaped you, namely, that the Nazis intended to conquer present-day
Poland FOREVER, not merely on a temporary basis!!

Finally, Hans Frank bore the fear-inspiring title of "Gauleiter", thinking
of himself very much as an all-powerful potentate.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]

"Resident" in essence refers in English to the occupant or occupants
of a specific dwelling or domicile.

"I reside at..." signifies that one lives, that is, occupies the place in which
they have established their living space.

A residence can either be permanent or temporary though, this is true.

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

"Junglist"?? You mean information about Carl Jung?
Hmm, wrong church, wrong pew, it would seem.

Real Estate / Some questions about letting out apartments in Poland. [6]

Apparently you didn't receive any of my private mails either.

Off-Topic / Ukrainian language [50]

Hmm, a variety of answers I see.
Many thanks all the same, folks!

Real Estate / Some questions about letting out apartments in Poland. [6]

?? "Undefined"

Real Estate / Some questions about letting out apartments in Poland. [6]

As mentioned prior in my private post to you, I'd consult with your local Polish
Consulate for further info on this.
Markus

Off-Topic / Ukrainian language [50]

@Vlad, objectively speaking, is Ukrainian closer to Polish than Russian?
I was told once that the closest living Slavic language to Polish is actually Czech,
numerous false friends notwithstanding:-)