News / North Koreans working in Poland and in Denmark [36]

About the latter, sadly, you're right!
Hence the utter stupidity of Trump's remark re: more Danes, Swedes or the like coming to work in the States vs. Mexicans or other "Third Worlders".

What could the dude have been thinking?

Lets steer this back to Poland

Po polsku / Czy jest warto odwiedzić Szczecin? [34]

Tak?
Dzieki:-)

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

He's sheer hopeless, Pawianku!
Just throw in the towel on that one.

Po polsku / Czy jest warto odwiedzić Szczecin? [34]

No, wiec ktore miasto ma najwiekszy?

Po polsku / Czy jest warto odwiedzić Szczecin? [34]

Niestety jeszcze nigdy nie odwiedzilem Krakowa, ale miasto ma najpiekniejszy Stare Rynek w Polsce, prawda?

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

@Cojestdocholery, what on earth are you babbling about?
The Jews OFFERED to pay those who helped save their lives by giving them refuge, for heaven's sake! It is their fault if they wouldn't accept it?

News / North Koreans working in Poland and in Denmark [36]

Why, Johnny?
The answer is because Trump and his ilk practically live on outsourcing to cheaper-wage countries. If Denmark wishes to remain "competitive" in a globalized, US-dominated, Capitalist society, it's going to have to face facts and those facts, however unpleasant, are that a North Korean, with or without knowledge of either English or the local lingo, will be way, way, lower in wage than a Dane!

Law / Visa to Poland? Invitation by a Polish student? [21]

You're leaving Zimbabwe in order to go to Poland?
Did I get you right? Maybe you meant you're LIVING in Zimbabwe:-)

I figure you wrote that your fiance's a male nurse.
Does your fiance speak much English and do you intend to learn Polish?

Merely curious, that's all.

Good luck though,

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Right on, Pawianku!

News / Poland Plans New Canal from Vistula to the Baltic. Drought? [12]

Wasn't aware, thanks.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Milo, apparently you haven't understood any of my posts in which without fail, I've always made it quite clear that not ALL Poles were or are anti-Semites!

Might help if you re-read them.

Work / Is teaching English the only way for a foreigner to work in Poland? [30]

Sounds a lot like the US.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Kaszub,
I cannot begin to recount to you all the number of Jews reunited after the War with their saviors who kept them in hiding throughout much of the last years from approximately '43-'45, often at risk to their own lives. Furthermore, these quiet, unsung heroes and heroines wouldn't even take money or compensation offered to them by those hidden Jews!

I too get a lump in my throat when recalling such vivid testimony.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Many are, many aren't.
Same with any group, one can't in good conscience generalize.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

You missed point....as usual.
We're commemorating the Warsaw Uprising of 1944!

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Yo, Cojestdocholery,
I'm the least "traditional" Jew you're gonna come across in a long while, so quit dumping all Jews into the same heap!

I've been saying for years that if Jews are truly the "Chosen People", let them act like it, rather than hiding filthy deeds behind pious fraudulence, Brooklyn slum lords, for one.

The latter is what makes many thinking, enlightened Jews ashamed to admit among gentiles that they're Jewish.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

At the risk of repeating myself, clearly the Warsaw UPrising,was a triumph of the spirit, no two ways about it.

Off-Topic / I blame the Poles [36]

Amen!

Po polsku / Czy jest warto odwiedzić Szczecin? [34]

Pommern = Pomorze

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

@Cojestdocholery,
It is YOU needs to be educated about the history of the Jews in Europe!

As with many people, you allow anti-Semitic prejudices to interfere with your objecitve judgement.

Po polsku / Czy jest warto odwiedzić Szczecin? [34]

Tak, juz wiem.
Nawet dzis w niemieckich podrecznikow geograficznych jest napisane STETTIN, nie SZCZECIN, WARSCHAU, prawie nigdy WARSZAWA, tylko w nowoczesnych mapach szkolnych!

News / Poland Plans New Canal from Vistula to the Baltic. Drought? [12]

Merged:

Is Poland as affected by drought as Germany or Norway?

Having read about much of Northern Europe suffering so under the sweltering heat and certain drought conditions, I was wondering how Poland has been faring under current circumstances.

Po polsku / Czy jest warto odwiedzić Szczecin? [34]

Interesujace. Nie wiedzialem.

Po polsku / Czy jest warto odwiedzić Szczecin? [34]

Ach, teraz zrozumialem:-) Szczecin czyli Stettin, gra slowa, czy nie?
Dzieki,

Po polsku / Czy jest warto odwiedzić Szczecin? [34]

Ale dlaczego, pawianku?
W 1996 r. bylem po prostu na pobycie w Niemczech a tymczasem podrozowalem z pociagiem od Berlina do Szczecina:-)

Nie zrozumialem Twojego zdania. To jest zart?

Po polsku / Czy jest warto odwiedzić Szczecin? [34]

Gdy bylem przed wieloma latami w Szczecinie, bardzo spodobali mi sie piekne kawiarnie, sklepy oraz slynne Stare Miasto!

Wtedy to bylo lato, przyjemna pogoda a wszystkie ludzie siedzieli na Rynku porozmawiace ze znajomymi przy kawie czy szklance wina. Przytulny czas.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Jews typically tended to shy away from certain professions, more owing to the fact that all applicants or aspirants, if you prefer, had to show evidence that they were Christians, as much as any other possible reason!

Even much later when many Jews decided to convert, they were often met with continued hostility, deemed in most cases as trying to almost weasel their way into to gentile society, instead of as merely trying to eek out an honest living.

Either they were (as Jackie Mason likes to quip) "too Jewish" or, in the jaundiced eyes of the powers that be at the time, "not really Christian enough", worse still, as pretending to be the same as everyone else if only to curry favor and overtake the society.

Either way, the Jews couldn't win.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Excuse me, but I've endeavored to make a distinction between Polish gentiles and Polish Jews:-) Clearly, I didn't make myself plain enough.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

In English too, there's "Hope springs eternal."

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

@Rich,
"Assimilation" actually refers to the degree to which anyone feels comfortable within a society, adapts to most local customs or conventions, and above all, sees themselves as a part of rather than apart from their chosen community:-) Naturally, language to be sure plays a key role as well.

Assimilation certainly does NOT mean, nor has it ever meant, to jingoistically accept any or all dogma, doctrine etc. force fed down their throats. This is not assimilation, this is pure idiocy!!