Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]


No. He's a good man - I know the fellow, believe me.

You want bad Germans? Go to politikforen.net and read some threads about Poland :)
BB is the chairman of German Polonophiles Association, compared to some people there :))))

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In addition to all this, you make telephone calls to German agricultural machinery factories
if some distressed Polish forum member is in desperate need of information on, for example,
out-of-production round ballers.

You're a good ambassador, BB, and a good man too. Keep up the good work! :)


I got old. Couldn't be arsed anymore.

Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]


You see - there's no widespread positive stereotype of Poles. Thank you very much German
and Russian propaganda masters!


...cavalrymen! :)

Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]


Well, you do have Steffi Graf - I'll give you that.


I am not sure if "proud" is the right word and I can't speak for all Polish people, but, for
example, I had an opportunity of getting acquainted with great works of English and French
literature (in original languages) and I was able to compare them to the masterworks of Polish
writers. The conclusion that I drew was that Polish literary culture is of the same caliber and
quality as the aforementioned ones (despite centuries of opression, persecution and physical
elimination of our elites, artists, scientist etc.) and is less known worldwide, simply because it
is quite impossible to appreciate it without the knowledge of Polish language and culture.
It's similar as with Irish writers - we wouldn't hear about Joyce, Wilde, Becket or Yeats if they
had written only in Irish Gaelic. Polish writers, in most cases, wrote only in Polish.

Besides, we have survived over 1000 years as a nation, with common language, culture,
custom, traditions and feeling of national unity, surrounded by powerful enemies who were
trying either to assimilate or destroy us. Moreover, our culture itself was able to assimilate
people from all over Europe - we had German, Scottish or Tatar settlements throughout
history and now descendants of those people are perfect Poles :)

I believe that Poland brings something valuable to the European variety of nations with our
unique Latin/Slavic civilization, with our love of freedom and traditional values and that makes
me, if not proud then certainly not ashamed of my ancestors and heritage.


Who's Torq?

;)

Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]


I for one find most stereotypes about Poles completely unfitting... and when they picture
Poles as backwards, xenophobic car thieves, I don't like that.

*believe it or not - I've never stolen a car in my life! :)*

Unfortunately, there will always be negative stereotypes about Poland, as we can't compete
with centuries of anti-Polish German propaganda: untermenschen, Polnische Wirtschaft,
Pole-Kathole (whatever that is supposed to mean) etc. etc. and anti-Polish Russian propaganda:
stupid Poles (Soviet Union started hysterical anti-Polish propaganda, after we kicked their red
empire's ass in 1920 - stupid Polaks were not able to appreciate "the progress" that communism
was bringing them), traitors of Slavic cause, Latin thorn in a healthy Slavic body etc. etc.

Simply, German and Russian propagandas put together had much more money and possibilities
to spread lies about Poles than we could ever do to counter those lies.

Besides - we are, on average, more intelligent, more honest, more handsome and spritually
and morally superior to any other nation in the world (and that of course doesn't arouse
warm feelings towards us in all those lesser nations).


Decency, humbleness and modesty, I'd say.

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [226]


Would it be Polish nutters against German nutters only, or can we use our foreign legion too?

*I hope we can use Crow as an auxiliary unit* :)

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Good way to practise one's German too. When I feel confident enough with mine, I might
register and wreak some havoc too ;)

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [226]

Thread attached on merging:
German Politics Internet Forum

I wasn't sure where to put it (couldn't find "Comedy" section :)).

Here goes - German Politikforen...

politikforen.net/showthread.php?t=98976

...an extract from our dear friends and neighbours' discussion board:


Hey - Hans, you can wiederkommen anytime you want, I have no problem with that.
The catch is - your own eastern lands are depopulating and your population is shrinking
every year (apart from immigrants). So maybe before you start wiederkomming to Poland,
think of building up your own population growth :)

Oh - and you got it right - I am very stolz of my deutsche kultur (especially my favourite
deutsche writers: Mickiewicz, Słowacki, Prus, Kraszewski, Dąbrowska, Herbert and others :)).

There's more of that on this extraordinary comic site! Those of you who can read German
will enjoy a good laugh the comedians on politikforen give us.

*and who said Germans have no sense of humour??? :-))))*