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George8600   
11 Mar 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Yes, you look 'dumb like turk', lol

''dump like Greek'' is the correct sentence.

I'd say you have some Greek in you, or maybe some Roma.

Just because the guy has a tint of olive skin he's Turkish, Greek, or even Roma (whom are very dark)? I've seen tons of Poles with that skin tone, I am Greek and I have pale skin just as I have met many Turks with pal skin as well.
George8600   
11 Mar 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

I'm 1/4 Polish, 1/4 Greek and 1/2 Serbian

Wow I can always see the beauty in mixing Polish blood with Mediterranean blood in women. :-)
George8600   
11 Mar 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Well yea, but the other half of me is Polish which keeps my body pale no matter how long I stay in the sun. :-/
George8600   
20 Mar 2010
Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

i think it's all good as long as everybody get's discriminated equally. :D

Worst logic.....ever. lol

greeks

I am half-greek living in the US and have never dealt with a single racist comment (some jokes) but that's all. Nor have I met a Greek-American whom by any means hates other Americans.

Yeah, right. Mr. & Mrs. Utopia

You can laugh at Utopia, but Thomas More had a grand solution in there about racism....

Stalin installed many Jews in high level positions throughout Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, etc because he knew the communist Jews were more loyal to the Soviet movement then the countries they lived in.

Stalin? A friend of the Jews? Is that a joke.....
I see his propaganda is still brainwashing minds over half a century later...

Well you know, in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, over 95% of the people that live in these areas are of the ethnicity that correlate to the area....

ie, you might think of Japan as one, but 98.5% of the Japanese population....is Japanese.

The rest are mostly Korean and Chinese immigrants.
George8600   
31 Mar 2010
Love / My husband is Polish and I was wondering why he drinks all the time. [66]

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Can that graph you posted be any smaller? o_O lol

Also I love the new 'ads by google' insisting Alcohol Rehab Treatment under our threads. Lol I think it knows more of a solution than of the posters on here do. Who knew that google technology would one day take over the our very job on this forum? Creepy. lol.

Anyway, can ya' blame him? Have you ever drunken Chopin Vodka? The stuff's addictive.

But seriously...if there is a problem and I say this before it gets much much worse like it does with excessive drinking in the vast majority of relationships, insist rehab, helping/finding his problems/depressions and coping with them, or dumping him at last resort if things get out of hand....

Good luck! ^_^
George8600   
31 Mar 2010
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

king polkagamon

Oh brother...you know the answer to your own question Southern. It's a cultural thing just like it is with men. Also no, homosexuality is very sparse in a country that's over 98% Catholic....surprise surprise.
George8600   
31 Mar 2010
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

The CIA worldfactbook says 95% Grunwald. Also I didn't say that homosexuality (a thing of pure nature) wasn't existent, I meant the openness of it. Also Poland is 98.6 % Polish with the huge numbers of emigration this year. :-(
George8600   
31 Mar 2010
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

My guess is less than 50% of Poles are religious.

that's a joke. I have lived in Poland and almost every other person I see wears a
cross. Maybe in France UK or Sweden it's true but I doubt Poland. Also the study was conducted by the EU in their europollmeter reports which asked Poles directly just as they asked France ans Sweden. There's no reason to lie. If your so intimitaded by religion in Poland then just don't go there.
George8600   
6 Apr 2010
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_difficult_language_to_learn

The website you posted was written by a Pole native in the language, and states no sources other than his generalizing comments he has with readers below the article. there are tons of articles like that which claim that Italian, no German, no wait Japanese are the hardest to learn. Which to believe? The way I see it, there isn't one.

Linguistic neurology is so little understood that the rankings of difficulty are different for all. Factors may include what family their native (first language is), the age which they picked up the second language, their method of learning and time spent (some learn it better conservatively in a classrooms while others use software that teaches it inversely), their IQ level, etc. etc.
George8600   
15 Apr 2010
Life / Poetry and Poets of Poland [58]

So one thing that I have always been into, is Polish poetry. I don't know what it is, it just grasps me and connects with me better than any other modern poetry. I am also a lover of classical poetry where the French and Germans might come in, but I too am keen on Polish classics as well. So any poetry readers or considering to be?

Has anyone ever read from Symborska? Her modern/post-modern poetry won Poland a nobel prize in literature. Moreover, any other very famous ones? I have had the pleasures of meeting Jacek Dehnel and Tomasz Różycki in person and they too are very well known in modern Polish poetry.

For anyone beginning or already into it, I highly recommend the popular book 'Six Polish Poets' which is an anthology of the best of modern polish poetry and is written bilingually in English and Polish.

It ships internationally I believe, and you should be able to find it in any bookstore in Poland if you live there.
George8600   
22 May 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Hi Tomasz ^_^. People tell me the same thing too, but that's because I am half Greek and half Polish. You can probably find my picture if you click a few pages back on this thread. Anyway, I people call me this since I have light brown eyes and black hair along with pale olive skin (which would be a true olive if I was 100% Mediterranean). Either way, none of the ethnicity you noted are really Mediterranean but more or less related to their own genomes such as the Hungarians or Romanians whom are descendants from the Magyars, the Bulgarians who are southern Slavs, the Ukrainians, Tatars who are Slavic tribes. In fact the Tatars are the main Slavic tribe for poles. So I would say that you are indeed polish if you test positive for Tatar haploids. The theory people tell you I would say is false. I would say climate, melatonin, or personal/parental genetics play a factor. Any mixing with Poles (which is very little believe it or not) has been purely Caucasoid. Many genetic tests have proven that Poland is more homogeneous than one things. Truth is, through history many places like Galicia and Silesia have been occupied purely for military and conquer-ship empire reasons. Most foreign populations that moved there soon migrated out when their land was lost and Polish people have migrated to these places in mass. Especially for Silesia where all the Germans were driven out by the Marshall Plan and Soviet Forces and resulted in millions of Poles from Warsaw migrating to this area. As for Galicia, it has it's name from a mere short-lived Napoleonic conquering. Galicia is Greek and Italian for France.

Anyway, you might have Mediterranean blood in you. Again the ethnic groups you mentioned aren't really Mediterranean. What would be is: Italian, Greek, Macedonian, Turks/Anatolian, Southern French, Spaniards, etc.
George8600   
31 May 2010
Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [112]

Oh what a nice topic to bring up. I myself am more into modern Polish films since that's what my library mostly offers for rental in the foreign section. It is nice though and a detailed collection.

Here they are:

Katyn

Wesele

Da Vinci

Anioł

Jeszcze tylko ten las (English: Just Beyond This Forest)

The Peasants

Komornik (English: Debt Collector)

Seksmisja (Worst movie ever!)

Knife In The Water (Roman Polanski's first and only Polish film)

Pan Tadeusz

Trzeci (Good movie!)

I also have this website: polishfilms.org

But it's more or less a festival with indie films that aren't widely available...but I think those are the best!

If you like other foreign films I recommend the Cannes website, they have every film listed that has ever been screened there.

Enjoy ^_^
George8600   
31 May 2010
News / US to deploy Patriot missiles to Poland [405]

Those aren't patriot missiles. According to the news Obama has put this on "hold" (like so many other things @_@) since his talks with Russia several months ago.
George8600   
4 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

By dark what do you mean? Poles in general aren't dark...they simply aren't pale like most far eastern slavs. They tend to have a more richer, rosier, more deeper white complexion...sort of like germans. When I think dark I might think the Mediteranean with olive skins and what not. The yellowish olive skin tone you speak of is me. I have pale olive skin but that;s because I'm half Greek and half Polish. I also have brown hair I guess. Also Poles never really mixed with Magymars(Hungarians), Romanians, or Swedes so much. These ethnicites arern't visible in genetic tests.
George8600   
6 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / Any Poles in Orange County, CA? [40]

Yep--that's Orange County for ya...there is a serious lack of Poles and Polish cuisine :(

And every other place in the US except Chicago and New Jersey maybe. Truth is, Poles are under-represented in the US. Look at Chicago, the Italians, Greeks, Ukrainians, Irish, and even Germans have their own "towns" and "city centers" and the Poles who greatly out number all these groups have little to nothing. :-(
George8600   
14 Jun 2010
History / The Two Saddest Nations on Earth... Poles and Jews [243]

Aren't there thousands of Israel, Hillel, and Jewish forums on the internet for these?

It was a thing of the past and now it's over. The current Jewish census in Poland is less than 5,000 people. What we should be worrying about is the surge of Ukrainians and Germans into our country.
George8600   
13 Jul 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Complete BS, I hate to generalize but Mediterranean women (esp. Greek and Italian) are the most stuck up self centered women that think they're better than everyone. Polish girls are so much easier to get along with either as friends or accepting of a date and have much greater personalities.

Now I know each country has it's bad and good, but this is the overall analysis from the many women I have met in these areas. And by met, I don't mean in "bed", I mean in person or as friends or on a date/simple relationship.

& Before you call me biased I am Greek myself and half Polish.

You can come to our beaches in mediteranean sea and change your skin.

Yes you'll also get a good exercise running the beaches from the sex-deprived Italian and Greek men; lol
George8600   
19 Jul 2010
Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]

The genetic marker for most people of slavic origin is the Haplotype r1a1.

A single haplotype doesn't necessarily mean that populations are the same. R1a1 is BARELY enough to categorize anyone as slavic. Here is a map of it:

Map

It's most common is Poland, and is just as common in Ukraine as it is in the Mediterranean....so no go. I can tell you that Greeks and Turks don't look like Ukrainians even though they practically have the same frequencies of R1a1.

While Polish people and Ukrainians do share genes these are mere general slavic genes. However they don't for example have any Tatar Haploids which are found in about 64% of the Polish population. Haplotypes are elementary genetics. It is rather several distinct haplogroups that characterize an ethnicity in particular...as opposed to a single one which can barely label a family of genepools such as "slavic".
George8600   
19 Jul 2010
Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]

How can Poles have more Tatar haploids than Ukrainians? Crimea is IN Ukraine!

Are you aware that Poland has practically shifted over west since it's original founding over one-thousand years ago, dragging the populous with?
George8600   
20 Jul 2010
Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]

"Shifted over west" since its original founding over 1000 years ago? I don't think so, George.

Blame my history teacher.
George8600   
25 Jul 2010
Love / Do Polish date Spanish people [50]

know how Spanish or Italian men treat foreign girls

Throw Greek men in there too. I've seen it happen in front of my own eyes with italians and greeks. I hate to generalize since I'm half Greek, but it is true that most of these men seem to have some sort of a childish 'superiority complex' over these women. It's disgusting...