Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]


Come on, surely that can't be fair, they were caught on the hop:)

Work / Why Poland employers are afraid of hiring any foreign nationals? [171]


Actually stats show that they three times less likely to commit crimes than the locals.

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]


yes, there is nothing more endearing than expats getting together and ******** for HOURS about what a horrible people these Poles are.

[quote=beelzebub] Yet another example of the Polish knee jerk "blame someone else and deflect" tactic. It's inevitable. Can't you ever just say "yeah that's something we should work on" without saying "but"?]

As soon as they do that your ego grows tenfold, and you start telling everyone how they do it back home. And back home is not really doing all that well right now.

[quote=beelzebub] to illustrate the Polish trait of taking credit for something they didn't have anything to do with was a matter of coincidence that this all occurred while Poland was in this particular stage of it's economy. With the massive amounts of credit Poles live on]

Yes just like the American recession and abysmal economic performance is nothing more than a coincidence.

[quote=beelzebub] we ARE saying is that modern Polish culture has some huge changes it will have to undertake if it want's respect.]

That is coming from somebody from a nation whose idea of culture is a fat American in shorts getting up in the morning, and hoisting the flag on his or her front lawn. You can keep your respect to yourself, it takes culture to recognize culture.

[quote=beelzebub] the massive amounts of credit Poles live on]

what claptrap, have you forgotten from which country you come from.

[quote=beelzebub] Nobody is saying Polish genes are defective...]

And I suppose that is breaking it to them really gently.

Yes the Poles are a proud people, but they are better aware of their shortcomings than anybody else, so yes they might find it a bit personal coming from somebody who hasn't got a clue what they have been through pointing it out to them.

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]


[You NEED the investment but your ego prevents you from even admitting that.[/quote]

The above person seems to have a serious inferiority complex.

Yes, kind of like Arab oil money is fueling investment in the US. And lets not forget Chinese money. A Rich nation having to borrow from a poor one how immoral, decadent and indecent is that? I suppose that is why Obama has take to bowing before a Saudi King.

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]


Actually I used neither. Forgive me for not treating the forum like an essay

Language / What are the Polish words of Mongol origin? [14]

papagarth ( this is , shall we say, a curriocity : I've learned that the Mongols left er, DNA samples in poland, but are there words other than a variant of 'horde' borrowed from Mongolian to Polish ?)

There is a Tatar minority of about 10 000 strong or less on Poland's eastern borders. In Poland they are Referred to as Tatars, and are of the Muslim faith. They have a long history of fighting as mercenaries for various Polish armies. Their original incursion into southern Poland took place in the 12 hundreds, when they practiced their horde activities.

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]

I'am just about to start my Honours actually.

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]


I’ am not sure what you associate with qualified people, but hard work, discipline, reliability and intelligence are usually prerequisites to become one in the first place. I could live ten lives over and these fundamentals would never change. You must be living in some parallel universe on a planet called Bare Minimum.

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]

yes there is some truth in that however, if you had a choice between a John Prescott type and somebody who actually has some sort of qualification, you would go for that person every time.

UK, Ireland / Warning to British people visiting Poland!! Don't get drunk and smash the place up! [447]


So it is three pints now, before you said it was two. if he can't remember how many pints he had well than.....

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]

Well you have to admit though, it's a pretty good indicator of somebody's competance.

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]


I don't mean to call you ignorant, but are you aware of the qualifications of some of Poland's politicians?

Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]


I know a Polish lady here in Australia who was explaining a story at a gathering, involving a hairdresser, and she did not know the word for hair dryer or hair drying. So instead she said that he gave her a blow job:) I almost choked to death on orange juice because of my outburst of laughter

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


From my understanding the people that were targeted were a social class like those who were non-workers. And the whole thing was a genocide.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


By that you mean a national group, which seems distinct from an ethnic group and is classified as genocide if targeted for extermination. like the Cambodian case for instance, were a whole group was targeted, and to my knowledge is classified as genocide.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]

Right, so we go back to the original question why the distinction between ethnicity and national group.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


sorry but this argument still does not make sense to me. According to you there is no way of distinguishing a pole living in Russia from a Russian, if he happens not to have a Polish nationality. And gain this isn't exactly about numbers it is about intent.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]

Ethnic groups would mean Soviets kill all Slavs

Religious groups would mean Soviets kill all Roman Catholics

The Soviets didn't do any of those.[/quote]

I'am still not sure if that is right. according to this how would you describe somebody of Polish ethnicity living in Russia, if you include Russians and Poles in the same ethnic group. Since you don't have to be a Polish national necessarily.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


indeed it is not, but surely ethnicity includes everyone regardless of nationality. So why bother including national groups, unless they mean something different.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


I get you, but that is already covered by ethnicity, so why bother repeating it.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


But surely if they include ethnic before national than why bother with national. after all isn't nationality indicative of ethnicity, or does nationality include groups within a nation like different classes.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]


i think that includes class.

Law / The 'Secret' of Poland's Economic Success [83]

Well their finance minister, jacek Rostowski. has a Master in economics ( from the London school of economics) has a master degree in history, same uni. As well as a Bachelor of Science – International Relations, University College London. He was born in the UK and apart from English, he is fluent in French, Russian, Polish and German.

Born into a Polish exile family in London. During the Second World War his father, Roman Rostowski, served as personal Secretary to Tomasz Arciszewski, Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile and did not return to Poland after the war. In the 1950s, Roman Rostowski worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office with postings to Kenya, Mauritius and the Seychelles where Jacek Rostowski spent much of his childhood.

During the early 1980s he was active in the Polish Solidarity Campaign, a London based Solidarity support group. From 1989 to 1991 during Poland’s great economic transformation following the fall of communism, Vincent-Rostowski was an advisor to the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Leszek Balcerowicz.

In the early 90s Vincent-Rostowski also advised the Russian Federation on macroeconomic policy. From 1995 he has been Professor of Economics and was the head of the Department of Economics at the Central European University in Budapest during the periods: 1995-2000 and 2005-2006 (Post suspended following appointment as Polish Finance Minister.

During the years 1997 to 2000, Vincent-Rostowski was Chairman of the Macro-economic Policy Committee at the Polish Ministry of Finance.He is one of the co-founders of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). He was also a member of the Foundation’s Council.From 2002 to 2004 he was an Economic Advisor to the National Bank of Poland.

In 2004 Vincent-Rostowski was appointed Economic Advisor to Bank PEKAO SA. He left this post in November 2007.He was a member of UK Conservative Party. It was announced in the beginning of 2010 that he became member of Platforma Obywatelska two months earlier.

I would trust him, i doubt if there is a more competent finance minister in Europe, he also won finance minister of the year award from the Banker's Magazine.

Life / Why do you choose to stay in Poland, why not other country? [152]


Do you think they are increasing in Poland though? Or it will never get quite as bad?

Life / You are Polish if... [433]


sounds like residents of any country in world, being criticized by residents from some other part of the world.

History / WAS KATYŃ GENOCIDE? Polish officers were killed [237]

MareGaea
they tried to eliminate its entire Intelligentsia, surely that is bad enough. By targeting a certain group of people because of their station in life and eliminating them for that reason is surely genocide.

UK, Ireland / Warning to British people visiting Poland!! Don't get drunk and smash the place up! [447]


I see what it relates to now, but no i wasn't aware of this thread before. Though it sounds like real BS

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


One thing i hate is how Poles dump on their present gov. have you seen the qualifications of some of the ministers. Take the finance minister Rostowski, or the foreign minister Skiorski for instance. Read their about them on wiki or gov website, and i challenge you to find better qualified gov people anywhere else in Europe.

UK, Ireland / Warning to British people visiting Poland!! Don't get drunk and smash the place up! [447]


lol. farming of course, or was that a demonstration of your dry humor. Come to think of it though probably both.

UK, Ireland / Warning to British people visiting Poland!! Don't get drunk and smash the place up! [447]


you've got me, I'am to slow for these forums i write before i think. The reason for the slow re- population is partly due to the poor fertility of the highlands.

Keep in mind that off topic posts will be binned.

SeanBM
No link, though it was quite prominent in the Media at the time about 7 months back or so on TVN.