History / Not proud of my Polish heritage [110]

I'm fascinated by this thread and the attacks on the OP.

I've recently moved to Poland with my Polish born wife and our children.

I've always been intrigued by my brother-in-law's sense of 'pride' in Poland and his nationalistic / right wing tendancies. I have been visiting Poland after meeting my wife for almost 20 years and come to recognise this 'nationalistic' pride in many people, but never fully understood why. However I am now looking at Poland through different eyes now I live here.

This pride was extremely evident when on my children's first day at school they were expected to stand when the flag was brought into the hall and again when the national anthem was sung. This would be deemed wholly innapropriate in the majority of Irish and British schools

Despite benefitting from millions of Euro in funding from the EU and creating new road sytems and many other capital projects which have tidied up many of the bigger cities and towns, the place is still covered in rubbish and dog faeces. People seem to have more money nowadays with many western European shops in most city centres and a plethora of expensive cars parked in the driveways of numerous unfinished new houses. However the wider environment is a disgrace, rubbish strewn streets, groups of men getting drunk in the open air in the same place for as long as I have been visiting and everyone turning a blind-eye. There is a phrase for this sense of 'pride' in English; Posh hat, no knickers.

......and bureaucracy!!

I will entertain myself observing the Polish psyche and visiting this forum in an attempt to make sense of it.

History / Not proud of my Polish heritage [110]

@Atch
Go raibh mile maith agat le fáilte roimh chách, tá mo Cleann ón nGaeltacht i nDún na nGall.


were ...is the most important word in that sentance, the visit of the Pope a few weeks ago displayed how unimportant Catholicism is now in Ireland, combined with the innumerous sexual assaults by the clergy and don't forget the 800 babies bodies in a cesspit in County Mayo!

Anyway this is off topic, but I will be keeping my eye on how this nationalist attitude affects my childrens' very open attitude to the world, any indication they are adopting the engrained racism, nationalism, superiority, I witness on a daily basis and they will be taken out of state education.

......first post and I am already being attacked too, half expected it, a 'difference of opinion' does not appear to be welcomed in Poland.

History / Not proud of my Polish heritage [110]

@Lyzko
maybe take a trip to the suburbs or to a small village, 'Polish Pride' does not extend to picking up dog-****, cigarette packets or beer bottles/cans. My local church has an enormous amount of fag ends and beer cans littering the grounds. I live not very far from a major city that receives thousands of pilgrims during August, the suburbs of there are full of rubbish, the lack of pride in the environment is shocking.

History / Not proud of my Polish heritage [110]

Ní dhéanfaidh aon ní cearr le mo Ghaeilge, an bhfuil tú líofa sa Ghaeilge? ye cheeky ballax!

Home schooling is the only option, but there is a Montessori too.

TBH, doubt we'll stay here too long, 2 months has been a long time, and trying to re-register a RHD car, christ on a bike! this country is not in the EU, it is still stuck somewhere in the past, it only appears to be in the EU for the cash.

@Ironside ...Hole and ten foot pole mean anything?

please stick to the topic