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5 Feb 2018
Life / Why are Polish people so strange & unusual? [51]
Perhaps it is my fault for thinking this way. But I am not sure.
I hate to seem like a naysayer; but I've never met a Polish person I feel like I could actually trust. They always seem to be a warm or nice bunch of people; but to me this all seems feigned.
One thing about Polish people that I really have trouble with is that they always seem to act like a clan. If you don't agree with a Polish person, then they will tell the other person; etc. and you will be booted or ostracized from their social group.
Is it just me, or is this true? Or have I been talking to the wrong people?
Polish people also tend to have this weird love/hate thing about them. i.e. Me: Do you know Nikodem? Bartosz: Nikodem is an idiot.
(even though I know that both "Bartosz" and "Nikodem" have interacted/are friends; the other Polish person in this case; (aka Bartosz, here) will always try to cut-throat or speak behind his back.)
One Polish acquaintance of mine once told me: "Polish people are secretly envious of each other; and are only kind to each other but do not let each other know their true feelings. Poles are very jealous people; and they would actually rather want to see the other Polish person fall into the mud; rather than be more successful, than themselves. Although they usually do not try to clarify this to anyone. They also tend to be more naive or slower than other people."
I am a white man, American from the South, but I have talked to various people around the world. I observed that the Polish and the French seem to carry this kind of behavior. I find it to be very odd?
Maybe it seems kind of rude of me to ask; but I have actually never met such people with such a seemingly deactivating; negative or arrogant atmosphere as the Polish... And also a love/hate relationship.
Perhaps it is my fault for thinking this way. But I am not sure.
I hate to seem like a naysayer; but I've never met a Polish person I feel like I could actually trust. They always seem to be a warm or nice bunch of people; but to me this all seems feigned.
One thing about Polish people that I really have trouble with is that they always seem to act like a clan. If you don't agree with a Polish person, then they will tell the other person; etc. and you will be booted or ostracized from their social group.
Is it just me, or is this true? Or have I been talking to the wrong people?
Polish people also tend to have this weird love/hate thing about them. i.e. Me: Do you know Nikodem? Bartosz: Nikodem is an idiot.
(even though I know that both "Bartosz" and "Nikodem" have interacted/are friends; the other Polish person in this case; (aka Bartosz, here) will always try to cut-throat or speak behind his back.)
One Polish acquaintance of mine once told me: "Polish people are secretly envious of each other; and are only kind to each other but do not let each other know their true feelings. Poles are very jealous people; and they would actually rather want to see the other Polish person fall into the mud; rather than be more successful, than themselves. Although they usually do not try to clarify this to anyone. They also tend to be more naive or slower than other people."
I am a white man, American from the South, but I have talked to various people around the world. I observed that the Polish and the French seem to carry this kind of behavior. I find it to be very odd?
Maybe it seems kind of rude of me to ask; but I have actually never met such people with such a seemingly deactivating; negative or arrogant atmosphere as the Polish... And also a love/hate relationship.