Work / Polish nurses, gender and salary [32]

A bachelors isn't necessary, and as a rule nurses have a lower professional status than nurses in the UK. Partly this is due to the enormous oversupply of doctors who got on the medical course too easily and can get away with lower professional standards. There are some excellent nurses in Poland however they are hampered by other people working as nurses who don't have the same standards or level of ability.

They are all sadly very underpaid, which doesn't encourage applicants for the work and those few - and I mean few - who are truly professional nurses have to reconcile themselves to having the same professional status as people who fall very far short of the professional standards that the best of them have. Most earn less than £400 per month.

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

What are the roots? Basic prejudice. Any attempt to justify it falls flat on its face. We've heard it all before, but maybe you've got one that nobody for the past 2 centuries has pretended to believe.

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

Who's to determine? It's self evident; that all humans are created equal.

You come across as very cynical.

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

All assumptions about people are necessarily false without unambiguous evidence about the person themself. Not any guff about how they look or sound.

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

It's a danger to confuse culture with race and even more dangerous to make too many assumptions about someone based on the culture they were raised in. Racism is do much about making false assumptions.

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]


If that actually made sense, it would be amusing. However it doesn't - racism is always wrong.

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]


Or more likely an example of someone who doesn't hate. Racism is never a 'shade of grey'. It is always wrong.

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

Don't be so silly. There is no 'golden mean' where racism and other forms of fear and hatred are concerned. Something is either positive or negative, and all racism is negative.

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

Any racism is too much.

Travel / Best place to exchange money in Poland? [98]

No. Their rates are never the best and their service is very slow.

Real Estate / Renting in Poland - tenants' rights? [51]

Re the monthly admin charge (czynsz) it is either included in the rent (in which case the landlord deals with it) or it isn't (in which case the tenant pays). The former is more usual than the latter unless the landlord lives a long way away. They don't always want the spoldzienie - or the tax office - to know they have a tenant.

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [331]

In effect,There is a grain of truth in what he says. But only a grain. The British, for example, often do speak foreign languages; we learn at least one from age 7 or 8 and often a second at high school. However wherever we go people want to speak English to us. You can't blame a busy shop assistant in Paris for replying to us in English when we ask for something in French but here in Poland they take it to an extreme.

A couple of examples. I've lived here for years and like to think I speak Polish well - certainly well enough to give evidence for an hour in court during a complicated lawsuit and to deliver U3A lectures in Polish. When I'm here, I don't usually speak English from one week to the next. And my accent is good enough for me to pass as Polish (for a while anyway) if I really try hard. Yet a few weeks ago I was in a restaurant and ordered for myself and my guest in flawless Polish. Yet the waiter (whose English was so basic as to be almost unintelligible - he didn't even know the word 'fork') insisted in replying every time in some sort of English. And about a year ago, I was in a bar that I've been a regular at for 12 years with my closest friend (who doesn't speak English). For around half an hour we were talking about betting systems and why they mathematically don't work. All in good Polish. Then a guy leant over and said to me "How you like stay? How long you are visit? What hotel you?"

So people are criticed for not making the effort to learn Polish but treated with extreme ignorance by a certain type of Pole when they do. In effect you're dammed if you do and damnedest if you don't. No wonder so many people feel they don't have to.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

What makes you think that a. he'd be doing the same thing or that b. the government haven't thought about that? They aren't PiS, so they do actually think!

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

And the issue is that if he has what you describe as health problems then he is in any case unfit tor work. If he is fit for work, then being 66 is no longer a reason for the state to retire him on full pension.

Unless you know of some magic source of money.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

That's just nit-picking. There's an aging population, life expectancy is increasing and there's a finite pot of money for social provision. The current government are working with the same situation that any other party would - except PiS would simply duck the issue or make promises that they could never fulfil. Or hope that prayer would solve the problem.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]


There are always jobs to suit and given that the increase in retirement age is partly due to more and more people staying fit and healthy for longer, we shouldn't make assumptions. Anyway, nobody here is expected to perform a task at work that they are unfit for.

Life / Scars of Communism on Polish culture. [55]

Elbows.


Just as communism was touted as a belief system, some of them here think that capitalism is an ideology too.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Very well said.

Genealogy / I have Jewish DNA, but only know of Polish ancestry . [120]


Exactly ;-)

Though as well as just hanky panky, there were also thousands of families who converted over the years.


Swings and roundabouts - you shatter an illusion but gain an Israeli passport.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


Exactly

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


She'd probably never seen the real thing.

Genealogy / I am of Polish descent (i am something called kashoop). Kaszub, Kashubian? [19]

The prime minister of Poland has Kaszub roots, so does Gunther Grass who described them as "too Polish for the Germans, too German for the Poles.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

I think some of the people from the US (almost certainly victims of genital mutilation themselves) are introducing this because they don't have much else to say in favour of it.

Really, it's bizarre to confuse any underlying anti-semitism (or lack thereof) with not mutilating a child - it's hard to imagine anyone even thinking about that.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


Actually it was brought up a couple of pages ago, but never mind.

You actually cited Africa as a good example. Ridiculously suggesting that


is somehow a citable source for complicated medical studies but incompetent to perform a particularly basic (and primitive) genital mutilation!

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Agreed 100%. It's part lt trolling, partly cultural imperialism and partly some individuals working off their own inadequacies about being mutilated.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


You'd be surprised how clean it is, especially in hospitals.


So why choose Africa at all as an example to advocate genital mutilating. After all, you brought the place up.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

I've certainly been in hospitals in Africa - and none of them looked like, as you called it:


What things that you've seen 'countless times' helped form your sparkling insight into both international hospital practice as well as the pointless practice of circumcision, whether in Africa or elsewhere?

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

There speaks the voice of someone who's never been there!

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


Unfortunately they only show a short term lower rate of 1.3% as opposed to 3% who have nasty complications from the operation. Details cited in posts above.

Life / Scars of Communism on Polish culture. [55]


Exactly. The weather and the fact that more people use public transport rather than warm cars have a lot to do with this.


I agree - however I'd say that the thread title is somewhat loaded - as if everything that came from the PRL was negative and everything in the US which he compares things with is positive.