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Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]
Modern people remember Poland as either partitioned (if they are interested in central european history that is) or occupied or commie...nothing of which speaks especially of freedom.
Not of having freedom, but... well, Drang nach Freiheit. Polish history since the partitions is one chain of fights to restore Poland.
What makes you different to others??? You know...Germans the mechanics...French the cooks...Italians the lovers...Polish the...?
...troublemakers. That's the thing.
Polish history in the beginning was a typical European one, then we got first modern democracy in Europe. And it worked, surprisingly, for quite a time. Then it deteriorated, as is typical too (although not to the extent that might be envisioned as based on the popular propaganda), and then Poland was not. But Poles stayed there, and didn't like it, and 'for ours and yours freedom' started. Poles on all available fronts, from Hungary to USA.
This might have been one of the reasons, the result I want is such: Poles are never happy with what is there. Give him a shovel and tell to dig a trench, he'll start digging lengthwise, then will get bored and will change the direction of sweeps. After a while he'll drop the shovel and go looking for a better wheelbarrow, or for the WD40, because the not so bad wheelbarrow has a squeaky wheel. And then he'll say that this trench is useless anyway, but he has to dig it, so he gets angry and finishes sooner than expected.
You get two Poles and three opinions. My neighbour has built himself a nice brick house, I am building a quaint wooden cottage, wood is good for you, brick is passe.
Nice people, though, on balance.
Restless... results both good and bad.
Well, that was my take on it, and now let's see what other Poles think of it.
Now I'm going to be mad at you, you blasphemous you: Wawel chocolate factory, producing kasztanki and mieszanka krakowska (cukierki/galaretki w czekoladzie or Krakow Chocolate Covered Jellies Mix) is doing great job. Ha.
Oh, kasztanki... right, good stuff. And mieszanka krakowska. Except those jellies, bueh... The best is, wossname, you know, ground almond... So I said 'they can make this and that good'.
Please do like me still... or start to... they say you're quite a looker...
not really, they lost the traditional recipes when they sold it, some old employee walked with it.
didn't know that.. but this would explain my unpatriotic feeling of late, and I thought my taste was somehow deteriorating... Anyway, they must've saved quite a lot, it's still a good stuff.
