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

What precisely do you mean by "conformist Asians"? Conformist in the sense of complying with societal rules and norms to a far greater degree than, say, the US, is certainly correct.

However, I don't feel they are overly liberal for its own sake. In this way, they are indeed conforming to general changes which have occurred and are presently occurring throughout Europe.

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

Possibly.

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

Who pressured Sweden into making that decision anyway?

Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

You see, Alien? Your Polish culture is showing.

Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

I agree with Lenka!
Although I've been to Poland only once, I do have years of experience hanging out in Greenpoint, Bkyn., and Poles seem much more conservative regarding age and dating.

It might not be looked at twice for a young-20 something woman to be flirting with or even dating a 60-something fella here in the States, but among Polish people, this is still seen as pervy and to put it mildly, disgusting.

USA, Canada / Cigarettes reach nine dollars a pack in New York [109]

He-he!

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

Now, paw! Don't you start getting PiSsed off too.

History / German Sprache aka speech in Polish films [19]

How right you are, Alien.

Pole 1: Excuse me, mister! Are bathrooms for mixed people of both sex or only one at a time, please?
Pole 2: What you are talking, lady? Both sexes not allowed because we are only one!
American bystander: HUH?????

Translation: The first person wishes to know whether the restroom is a unisex stall and the second person replies that it's actually for men and women. The two Polish speakers understand one another's gobbledygook fluently.

Don't just get me started on LGBTQ or transgender:-)

LOL

USA, Canada / Cigarettes reach nine dollars a pack in New York [109]

Also remember a nickel for a shine??
Just joking there, Cargo pants.

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

It wasn't of their own creation though, Rich, that's precisely the point. Sweden, like The Netherlands, Germany and the UK, merely was trying to keep up with their liberal neighbors and lost touch with the constituent base. Swedish voters were talking, but the state wasn't listening. Put another way, the majority wasn't silent, the government was deaf, tone deaf.

Sound familiar? It ought to; Biden's been accused of the same thing and heaven knows, it might cost him '24!!

USA, Canada / Cigarettes reach nine dollars a pack in New York [109]

Way back when I was a senior in college, around 1982, a pack purchased in New York cost $1.10.

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

Rich, Sweden has simply been bending over backwards for far too long, trying in vain to accomodate Third Worlders in their society.

A backlash is only natural. This is a direct result of the demeaning of Western culture by lefties going back to the Woodstock Era. Everything Asian or African is "cool", everything white European is "suspect".

History / German Sprache aka speech in Polish films [19]

I mean that certain of those Polish actors who spoke their lines in German had such faulty German accents that it was difficult to understand them if one were a native German speaker.

Frequently, people speaking a second language will be better understood by other foreigners, in this case Poles, than by those whose first language is being spoken by the foreigner in question.

I remember Polish acquaintances in Berlin speaking German with native Berliners and being told that their pronunciation was sometimes difficult to make out. However, the others at the table from different European countries seemed to understand the Poles perfectly:-)

Life / Life in Poland for Indians !!! [55]

I know, Cargo pants! It's called "Hollylodz" LOL

Life / Life in Poland for Indians !!! [55]

Upon thinking it over, I suspect being from just about anywhere, but having the right amount of money, will sweeten the pot just a little.

Suddenly, the most reviled foreigner in Poland, such as new arrivals from India, will be treated quite differently if it turns out they're a Bollywood star!

Surely it's no different here in the US.

History / German Sprache aka speech in Polish films [19]

Absolutely correct, Alien!
In certain older Polish movies, especially from the forties, Polish actors were cast as Germans and spoke German properly but with horrible Polish pronunciation, on occasion, barely comprehensible to German speakers.

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

However, Swedes DO indeed care how safe Sweden is, one of many reasons why their country has slowly become so reactionary!

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

With what then is your mythical figure "armed", Rich?
With firearms alone.....or with common sense as well?

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

As the poet said, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Mankind never changes, the world changes around it!

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

Try it, Rich! I dare ya.

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

How come? Afraid you might learn something?

USA, Canada / Moving To Michigan - Help Required [27]

Quit playing dumb. Or perhaps you are not playing after all

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

Our size for one thing. Our heterogeneity for another.

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

Poland is a relatively homogeneous society, albeit a large country by European standards.
Certain countries such as the US or Canada can easily absorb large numbers of immigrants;
Poland is not one of them!

USA, Canada / Moving To Michigan - Help Required [27]

Flint has been having her problems over the past thirty odd years.

USA, Canada / Moving To Michigan - Help Required [27]

Marlenka,
Get ready though for some culture shock!
G.B. Shaw once quipped that the US and the UK are two countries separated by the same languageLOL
I actually know of someone who moved from the Midwest to Poland some years back and found the cultural differences far less than she thought, perhaps because more random Poles are somewhat more familiar with US popular culture through the Internet, social media and so forth, than the average American would be with Polish pop culture. This individual is not of Polish descent, by the way.

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]

@gumishu,
Just because the fella's a Communist, doesn't mean he's Jewish! Were Stalin, Georgi Dimitrov, Tito, Ceaucescu or Kadar Jewish?
You're jumping to a false conclusion.

News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [42]

Ethnocentric bilge! All language is relative and cannot be quantified subjectively in terms of "ugly" vs. "pretty", "dumb" etc..Your opinions are simply a mirror of your own true feelings, all colored by (negative) personal experience.

You're merely reading into a language how you personally wish to read into it.

To each his own, I suppose.

News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [42]

Why, Rich?

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Since the current royal family is essentially of German descent, small wonder that the Poles continue to be seen as interlopers and cheap-labor workforce.

Ever since Albert married Victoria, the Windsor line has become hopelessly intermingled with Saxe-Coburg and later Battenberg aka Mountbatten:-)

The British House still feels it must live down the shame of Edward abdicating the Throne to marry Wally and showing himself a Nazi sympathizer, in the same category as the Mitfords, Lord Haw-Haw, Mosely and the whole bleedin' bunch!