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Who is poor in Poland? [720]
The problem is that many Poles will stay poor as they don't know how to truly make money.
yes!
ok, maybe I can explain it on a different level, and hear me out, Maarysia, because I'm NOT trying to put anyone down, this is as honest piece of well-meant advice as it gets.
I work with a guy whose mother is from South East Asia, father from the US, the guy was born here. His mother had never left her home country, very backwards, low standards of living by American standards, until she met her future husband and she came to the US. A lot of things seemed silly, naive, so very different than what she was used to, people had different habits, different manners, they'd smile even though they didn't know her, they came from different walks of life, they'd all have different opinions, they'd argue about things she had no idea about or didn't think they'd matter to anyone. It was all extremely confusing at first, she had no higher education, no idea about business, no experience with anything other than running a household, didn't know how to find a job, how to adapt to people's expectations, pure craziness. Her husband was very patient, though, and he'd explain things, one by one, he'd let her meet different people, hear different opinions, get a driver's license, get a job, figure out for herself what life in America is about.
Well, a decade later or so, her husband died, and she took the kid (the guy I now work with) back to Asia, and she started her own business, based on what she learned in America. In her own words, going to America was
the closest thing to having a crystal ball, if you keep an open mind, because what people in the US took as a matter of course about running a business, in her old country was new, unheard of, almost ridiculous to her old friends and neighbors, but it was extremely successful. It was like going back from the future and taking with you all the information about what's going to happen.
So, the guy came back to the US to go to college, he married an American and stayed here, but his mother is still over there, making more money a year than both of her parents made in their whole life.
It's a true story.
See, Poland is like the country that stayed back in time. It's moving forward, but it's not where other countries are today, including the US. So what Havoc and others are saying, instead of
snickering and arguing, and shutting off everything that doesn't conform to the Polish way of life, perhaps it would make more sense to see what more successful people in more advanced countries are doing, and try to do the same. Think about it, what people considered normal in the West 20 years ago was pure crazy talk in Poland. Now the stuff is beginning to be the norm in Poland. But if you looked at the West twenty years ago and tried to do the same, people would obviously call you nuts back then, but you'd be twenty years ahead of time in Poland, and now that the majority of people are just getting used to it, you'd be successfully on the top of the game!
You're taking what Havoc says too literally, it's not about you joining the Navy, silly, it's about knowing what you want to accomplish, being smart, and keeping an open mind, even if it means throwing away the beliefs you held your whole life.
