Off-Topic / I am Polish and I am offended. [52]

You were subject of different socialization (or aculturalization)in Canada compared to typical Pole, being an immigrant in your heimat again. Plus you are germanophile and Polish. That preference usually blurs or distorts one's perception. And it is kind of contradictio in adjecto when person is a Pole.

Off-Topic / I am Polish and I am offended. [52]

Could you be more specific? Whose fault, which failings?

Off-Topic / I am Polish and I am offended. [52]


Long period you spent in Canada is a very plausible explanation for your current political attitudes. Different cultural model that you embraced is by some posters aggressively imposed to the rest of the forum. Sometimes the model that 'must prevail' is encountering resistance that I see as good counterbalance to tendencies that emerged in special circumstances and now are senselessly imposed to other cultures.

See it as a special case of fight for rights to be different on macro level. We should tolerate the differences. No double standards for molar (society) and molecular level (individual).

I fully understand an ethic Pole who feels like a Pole and nurtures pro Polish sentiments. Just because she or he has the RIGHT to feel that way.

Off-Topic / I am Polish and I am offended. [52]


Attitudes come in clusters, social science says so. It is more likely that person who is pro life will be also visiting church on Sundays, be against gay communities, and vote for the right part of the politicalspectrum.

Unless your cognition deviates a lot from normal human being you are also probably holding more or less coherent views on different subjects, including political.


I don't know you nor that is needed, i just read here and there something you wrote, you are ordinary human like everyone else here. Trener Zolwia would call you lib.


There was one? ;)

Off-Topic / I am Polish and I am offended. [52]


I am just citing relevant literature on social attitudes. Knowing that you are talking to a nurse on daily basis, I almost can feel how 'pompous' ordinary psychological terminology hurts on your side.


Nothing to thank for really, I usually initiate some sort of causal analysis, to give myself an answer why is person X thinking, feeling, behaving like that. nothing personal.

Isthatu2, I post only using this username.

Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

Serbo- Croatian uses the same word. Kustos muzeja.(no z)

Life / 3 reasons why winter is the best time of the year in Poland [58]

My Slavic archetype is sleepy when it comes to winter as preferred season :(((((

I absolutely hate it.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


My guess was that it had to do something with the climate. Not knowing enough I have to assume a lot ...


Why six, why not seven, ten? For example...?


There is no difference, at least I heard so : )))

I have a friend who during his history studies following his newly born religious motives, feeling like a Jesus :) decided to perform that intervention, found a willing surgeon, and revealed the results, oversensitivity followed by desensitization at the end if I recall well. Why would anybody want to feel less there where more is possible and when ultimate phantasy is sexual in its nature? ;)

( I have two more friends who during their adolescence had to be operated because of careless promiscuity, I heard more about the topic than needed from first.... hand? :)))))) In general, they were not thrilled with the results.....

History / Origins of Polish Slavs [138]


Austrian kind of introduction. Apologetic. Negative bias toward phenomenon from the start.

News / Should Poles care who becomes French President or is it irrelevant? [45]


I don't see where else could her votes go? Only to the dark side :)

History / The story about German- Polish reconciliation [194]


The costs are high, are you sure?

News / Should Poles care who becomes French President or is it irrelevant? [45]

After all it comes to this dilemma according to French ppl ; )

instead of this or that , this or this.

History / The story about German- Polish reconciliation [194]

Yes, I prefer human faces on those roads, among managers and over that kind of work, where the proverb Erst die Arbeit , dann das Vergnuegen says it all. Yikes.

Bumpy roads for me and one homeless life bitte ;))

News / Should Poles care who becomes French President or is it irrelevant? [45]


Indeed contemporary historians often lecture futurology :) My question is who benefits the most from that practice?


AdamKadmon's posts are interesting, but they suffer, as mine sometimes do as well, from 'unweeded' sections.

History / The story about German- Polish reconciliation [194]


I had more direct and extended contact with the culture. I ran away in fear ;)))

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

TheOther you got the attitude ; )

German, without unreasonable doubts.....

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

No disappointment at all, centuries pressing from the genome are all that matters ; )

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

How do you feel when west friesisch and north Friesisch selves start to struggle inside plus one Polish self joins the party? :)
is it slavic vs germanic type of division or is it just fun? :))

I hope you are not prone to dissociations! I assessed that you are not , you seem balanced, otherwise I am behaving unethically, ouch.

Love / It is more fun to have sex in Polish than in English. Discuss. [27]

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d3DX9Ho83QI

You are not alone, I understand you ;)

Anyway, somebody said that sexual act is in some way communication with the whole (the rest of the) world (!)

Your line would be do you speak Polish? :D

Mine, well it is known. Since Bratwurst left there is nobody willing to be sexually harassed :((

Life / A new Poland's war - the poor vs the rich [81]

I thought that Rich vs poor was evergreen?

Life / A new Poland's war - the poor vs the rich [81]


I agree. Sadly, I don't think I will live long enough to witness the part II.

Language / Should I just learn German? [55]


Far better than - French consider him Polish, and Poles French ;)

Slavic sentiments I can hear, perhaps it is just me.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

One of our best novels is about Khazars, the title of the novel- lexicon is The Dictionary of Khazars written by Milorad Pavic.

I think it is worth reading. The plot is developing around efforts of officials of Judaism, Islam and Christianity to get Khazars on their side.

Published in english in 1988.

Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

That topic is already elaborated and private opinions are just lay impressions.

Here the quote:
Individualism
The fundamental issue addressed by this dimension is the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members. It has to do with whether people's self-image is defined in terms of "I" or "We".

In Individualist societies people are supposed to look after themselves and their direct family only. In Collectivist societies people belong to 'in groups' that take care of them in exchange for loyalty.

Poland, with a score of 60 is an Individualistic society. This means there is a high preference for a loosely-knit social framework in which individuals are expected to take care of themselves and their immediate families only. In individualistic societies offence causes guilt and a loss of self-esteem, the employer/employee relationship is a contract based on mutual advantage, hiring and promotion decisions are supposed to be based on merit only, management is the management of individuals.

The Polish culture houses a "contradiction": although highly individualistic, the Polish need a hierarchy. This combination (high score on power distance and high score on Individualism) creates a specific "tension" in this culture, which makes the relationship so delicate but intense and fruitful once you manage it.

Therefore, the manager is advised to establish a second "level" of communication, having a personal contact with everybody in the structure, allowing to give the impression that "everybody is important" in the organization, although unequal.

Geert Hofstede researched that area thoroughly, I opened a thread named cultural dimensions which allows comparisons between cultures on 4 dimension he isolated.

Genealogy / Typical Polish Eye Color [77]

Why is Europe so diverse when it comes to eye or hair color?

In other animals, bright colors are usually due to sexual selection. Sometimes the result may be a "color polymorphism" (see box). This is because a potential mate is attracted not just by a bright color but also by a rare one that stands out from the crowd. By enhancing reproductive success, however, such a color will also become more common and less eye-catching. Sexual attraction will then shift to less common variants, the eventual result being an equilibrium that maximizes color diversity.

I as a southern Slav have one blue and one brown allele, dominant is mom's brown, so I have brown eyes. Having slightly below 50% of light eye colors (blue, green) and more than 50 % (lighter brown, darker brown, my sister's devil black without pupils ;)) of darker colored eyes, south Slavs seem not to have preferences when it comes to color of eyes. I heard pro brown (passionate) and pro blue (dangerous) voices, which supports above mentioned explanation of diversity. Nothing stands out from the crowd here. Only very light hair color. So it is unterstandable why most women here when they color their hair they tend to choose light blond nuances.

Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]


Sadly, people do equate those two.

I just wanted to tell you that you are quotable ;)

Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]


For some people like me essentials are- plenty of time and enough sleep- that means freedom. also, That I can distribute my own time the way I want to. To think about things I want to think, in a way I want to. To be able to turn off the phone when I feel like it and so on..

Meet has nothing to do with that kind of freedom.

Love / Sexually liberal ----- Is this a fact or myth for Polish women living in Poland? [61]


I would choose Mode. The most robust measure as in this case(s) should be. Robust.

I have to admit, that this all sounds too messed up even for my ears.

One bacteria should travel as fast as light, that part I think I got correctly ;)

Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]

Causes that play a role, literature says, when it comes to success in interpersonal sphere, affection are

1. physical characteristics
2. personality traits
3. availability

etc.

I would add ses, social/economical (including background and education) status which seems to be crucial. Probably ranked as first filter. (Leftists wrote that handbook:)))

Not being among the prettiest, I had to rely on rhetorics and full adaptation to the interests of the men I was interested in. Everybody loves his/hers reflection ;)

Husband or the boyfriend, same thing...

Off-Topic / Languages you [dis]like [9]

Hungarian. Beautiful country, beautiful people, horrible sounds.