History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]


I guess there you have your answer....there is no such thing as hereditary characteristics if they can vanish only due place of birth!

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]

Question....what about the many Poles with german heritage??? Or the other way around, Germans with polish heritage....there are so many of them!

German stereotypes or polish stereotypes? Which would you assign them?

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]

Hitler was an Austrian!

That's a main fail about nationalist stereotypes, putting it into ever changing borders....as if a community only a few metres left out of current borders can have totally different/even contrary characteristics!

Germany's borders changed so often, the old HRE was so much bigger, only for example....but somehow most of it's then citizens would never be compared to german stereotypes today...just because they don't fit into modern, actual german borders.

That way lays madness!

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]


You managed with Germans, didn't you? Abit at least?

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]


As we are talking mainly about stereotypes and broad generalizations, of course they/a people can change.....if they were ever true!

News / Army of Poland and other kin Slavic countries [39]

The West should more be like the afghan goat herder...dunno what they did but it worked....against Russia AND the combined West!

:)

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

....of course! :)

Genial = mild mannered??? Interesting....such different meanings for the same word, thanks...learned something again!

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

...schade

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

...oh god, that's genial....:):):)

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


....now that is interesting...and cool! :)


...yeah....heard that one too!

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Thanks, both of you! :)

...but....a lance rider in 1932???

And is there a translation for "Uhlan"? What does that word mean actually?

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

What I always wanted to know...what is an "uhlan"? Is there a comparison/translation to a modern language/ranking?

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


I even might have agreed with you....last year!

I told you 2023 changed alot of standings and opinions....you underestimate that at your own peril....just saying....

Still a Happy New Year to you too, Pawi! :)

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


I truly come to believe that will depend on how an AfD led gov would (will?) handle the immigrant-crisis in Germany. Every survey says that is the absolute main bone of contention between a huge majority of our people and our gov...for years now.

Wars and climate crisis and everythinge else is really taking a back seat to that....

Our green/leftists surely expect from Tusk also a more leftist handling of the immigrants, since they have become a minority regarding this in the whole of Europe and look for support now from Warsaw, that should be interesting to watch if and how they will be disappointed!

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Well....in Germany we enjoyed years of it and our youth is turning against it....or at least away from it!

Tell me if Tusk wants to open polish bordes to all immigrants who want to come and how the young Poles would react to that....

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

Erm....what has the EU to do with the election in Poland?

(Besides being an argument in the election campaign, that is)

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

....better for my cough too! :)

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

AHEM!

History / Polish military in 1939 in pictures. [107]


Interesting Pawi....a different set of rules for Germans and Arabs? :)

*ducks and runs*

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Thank you...and happy holidays to you right back! :)

For the insults....at one time you have heard and said them all, then it gets just repetitive and boring...so you let it be.:)

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Hmmm....I remember these old lectures as I was new to PF....was it Bibzi? Sokrates? Who told me how dumb and unwise and unfair to all our victims it is to make that distinction...as if the Nazis of old had nothing to do with us Germans!

I accepted that....it's one people, with all the good, the bad and the ugly!

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Na ja...we did it with Paris too.....

It seems cities we liked we left standing....(says alot about Berlin, doesn't it:)

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

...wonderful! Looks abit like a romantic painting! :)

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

True!

Have to go...'night all :)

...this polish language of the lone vowels...Brześć...

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Wow! Good work! :)

Yeah....I learned that very early....Germans lost their homes which were rebuild/resettled by people who lost their homes too...got one thinking also from early on!

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

....may I ask for a photo of today, as comparison?

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


I adore these old photos....a window into another time, another world.....so rare!

But they make me melancholic too...all dead and gone now...


*thinks back on the epic Kopernikus-war on PF*

Hach ja....these good, old times! :):):)


They rebuild it wonderfully....

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

"Festung Europa", better sooner than later!

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

...say, is it the same with all dialects?

The only one I find a bit bearable (for a short time that is) is the "Wiener Schmäh"....the dialect spoken in Vienna....but otherwise they are all gruesome, arent' they! :)

(I would even admit that my "Berliner Schnauze" must sound horrible to non-Berliner Germans!)

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

....so, so right! :)

It could help if both try to communicate in high german, but when we are falling back to our dialects...heh:)