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Posts by PennBoy  

Joined: 7 Dec 2008 / Male ♂
Last Post: 29 Dec 2013
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PennBoy   
30 Oct 2010
Genealogy / Is tallness common among Polish people? [201]

Nazis experimented by inseminating German woman by Serbian dinaric highlanders.

Is there any written proof of that today?
PennBoy   
30 Oct 2010
News / Upping the speed limit in Poland [92]

is this a wise move:

It took me 3 1/2 hours to get to the Warsaw Airport from Stalowa Wola where i used to live, distance of 230.95 km.
PennBoy   
31 Oct 2010
Language / The Future of Polish Language [179]

It's already been influenced alot by English, just from the time communism fell in Poland look how many new words appeared. I think there's no need for that, surely you can make up a new Polish word for its English counterpart.
PennBoy   
31 Oct 2010
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

oh and BTW, thank you so much for your knowledge of poland those who did come
later, your experience can help us to understand how it was then.

well i'm a dual citizen, came here in 1991, from the 80's i just remember the long lines in front of stores and greyish buildings lol.
PennBoy   
31 Oct 2010
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

Isn't it two very different things?

Well technically if you're an American citizen you're an American, of Polish descent, doesn't matter that you're not American born. Some people see it that way some don't, at least on paper it's that way.
PennBoy   
1 Nov 2010
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

My father grew up with what people on PF would consider a "real Pole", someone who grew up in Poland and moved to this country.

Exactly, i was born in Poland moved here when i was 9, yet some on this forum had the audacity to call me a Plastic Pole, since i don't live there no more. I of course feel more Polish but since i've lived here for so long and am a citizen of both countries i also feel a bit American.
PennBoy   
1 Nov 2010
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

Going by the name, I was strongly assuming it but obviously the name itself is not always showing one's origin and if then it's going so far behind that the person really doesn't know of any connection whatsoever.

True there are English Americans in the South, who are descendants of some of the first settlers came there in the 1600 or 1700s, they've been there for so long they're not sure where their family came from, so they just identify themselves as American.
PennBoy   
1 Nov 2010
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

But many Polish Americans resent being grouped in census reports as just 'whites', when other groups (Afros, Hispanics, Asians, Amerindians, etc.) are getting special perks and privileges based on ethnicity.

In the last census there was no column to write in or check Polish, or Irish, or German, just white.
PennBoy   
1 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Greenpoint is still Polish? Nightclubs and bars for Poles. [18]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint,_Brooklyn

We don't know everything about Greenpoint; we are not even sure how many Polish people live there. While Polish institutions have not collected solid data, U.S. statistics indicate that five years ago there were 17,000 Poles in Greenpoint, including those members of the community born in the United States. That's fewer people than we may have thought, but still a sizeable group, especially since they constitute over 43 percent of the population in the neighborhood.
PennBoy   
2 Nov 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

The Lithuanians are to pass legislation which will eliminate 2/3 of Polish schools. Poles are not immigrants in today's Lithuania like some posters here compared Pakis in UK. You need to understand that first. These kids will now have to go to Lithuanian schools. Let's say they will be allowed to speak Polish during breaks. Wow.

Exactly, they didn't just arrive there in recent years, they've lived on that land for hundreds of years, at one point that WAS Poland, like it or not. I like it how the Polish government isn't letting this slide and is keeping the pressure on.
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

how many have mixture of polish with some other nationality. -> I have no kids but my entire family is a Swedish/Norwegian/Polish mix (the kids that is)

You must be from Minnesota or Wisconsin as there are many people of each of those backgrounds in those states. It depends on which region of the States one lives of course, in general Poles mixed mostly with Irish and Italians, same religion was important when choosing a mate.
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [617]

This looks like a long an intense thread.. I will have to read the whole thing..

I will say I am an Polish/Belorussian/Ukrainian Jew who was born in USA. I am about 3rd generation American..

It's true that many American Jews (those who descend from Polish Jews) identify themselves as both Jewish and Polish and that's all fine, there's one in my neighborhood who on a huge flag pole has a big Polish flag flying all year round, only takes it down for the Jewish holidays putting an Israeli flag up for a few days. And there's the ones that blame us for what happened to their people on our soil, as if it's all our fault.
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Democrat Obama is half German and the now second most powerful man, the speaker of the congress Republican John Boehner, is full German!

Ha! Beat that!!! :):):)

...yesIgoogledthat...

Yea but Spanish is becoming the first language so how will they reach the people?
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Homeland Security estimated that out of some 20 million illegals in the U.s, 18.5 million are Mexican, now i wonder how many of the remainder 1.5 million are non Hispanic and how many are non white, and finally how many are white?? maybe half a million, how many illegal Poles are there?? i'm guessing few, i see very few new faces from Poland in my neighborhood, Poles don't come here in large numbers no more they go to Western Europe. Can make more or less the same money, be there legally like human beings, not watching out for the authorities, and board a plane for 50 euros go home for the weekend to Poland.
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Ethnically, Poles are a mess, but nationality wise, they're clearly Polish.

Really? i have no problem distinguishing a Pole from a non Pole, there is something as looking Polish

I suppose that's why we use the term "dumb Polack".

Woah!! he didn't say anything for you to use language like that, and if you think we're dumb or Polacks why are you in Poland??? say that to someone on the street
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Can you tell if someone is half Polish? what about a quarter? what about a Polish Lithuanian?

hahahahaa, a half Pole or quarter Pole isn't a Pole, but only half or quarter. Even if he/she is half something very often they look fully or mostly the other ethnicity, so it didn't make any sense what you were trying to say.
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
Genealogy / Polish Surnames Anglicized? [48]

Steve Wilkos from the Steve Wilkos show, former security on the Jerry Springer show, dropped the z from his original Wilkosz Polish surname.
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

I am saying that we are people, with mixed up DNA, that when you talk about ethnicity I think you are talking about something that just doesn't exist in real terms. And when I talk about nationality it is more like culture.
That you can't tell a Pole from a Czech in reality (DNA) but if you speak Polish you would be able to tell the difference in language (culture).

But Poles have some outside admixture but it's almost perfectly evenly distributed, a lil bit of German, bit of Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Jewish, Russian, all mixed well with the original Slavic genes, and there is a face of a typical blond Pole, a brunette, or dark haired, there's like 3 or 4 looks to an ethnicity when you see it you know what someone is.
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

well, a quarter horse is still a horse ;-)

is a half wolf half human still a human or a werewolf? i think appearance changes

Polish?

Jewish

Him?

Polish gay guy, probably from Poznan :)

What about him?

and Jewish once again, no offense of course he just does
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Congratulations you got 0 out of 3.

No of them look Polish, anyone who knows what i'm talking about would agree with me, if i'm wrong, then why can I and just about anyone else tell what ethnicity someone is just by looking at them??????

Either that, or you're a dumb Polack.

Son you have some serious issues, or you get offended too easily, he said nothing for you to say that twice.
PennBoy   
3 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Too late, your answer is invalid after me telling you the answer.

We could play again if you like, I will get three more contestants and you can tell me their ethnicity, right?

I could do this all night but it feels like I am just teasing a child.

Funny how you picked out people that don't look typically Polish