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legend   
7 Jun 2011
Life / New Polish generation prefers black culture? [145]

I cant speak for Poland (havent been there too long).

But I can say that in general in America/Canada a lot of white people have been exposed to black culture and some of them enjoy it. The same is true for Poles over here.

We can say that part of black culture is rap maybe. When I grew up I listened only to rock/alternative (by choice) and christian songs (fed to me). Later I discovered metal and like it to this day.

Sometimes I got bored and have found some rap and/or hiphop songs.

Actually the two bands I have listened to (I dont know what to call them rapper group) have some interesting lyrics which mostly are true. So not all rap songs are "dumbing" down.

I will agree that is certainly possible that a lot of rap songs is maybe violence, going against society (oh some metal is this too), some rap songs speak badly of white people (if a white guy sang something bad about black guy he would get kicked off air, etc).
legend   
7 Jun 2011
History / Teaching our kids about Poland's History [57]

Ya I live in Canada they did not say ANYTHING about Poland in any history class
(Elementary or High school... in College I never took any history)

Okay okay there are 2 exceptions:

1)Copernicus was Polish
2)Poland was invaded by Germany to start WWII.

Other than that NOTHING.

It was not until after elementary school that I started to learn about Polish history and damn I loved reading about it... except the parts where we lost :D

This reminds me of Bush saying dont forget Poland when the stuff in the Middle East/Asia started to happen.
legend   
7 Jun 2011
News / Warsaw is the natural capital of Europe, not Brussels [67]

As a Norman Davies book reads:

Heart of Europe- The Past in Poland's Present.

Poland is in central Europe, historically center of many conflicts, looks like a heart, and the people are awesome :D
legend   
5 Jun 2011
News / What must be done to improve politics in Poland? [72]

When it comes to politics in Poland I rather not think of it because from the little I have heard its all a giant headache.

With that said though can anyone explain to me the main parties?
Or a link would be nice (preferably English because I read slow like a turtle in Polish).
legend   
4 Jun 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

haha 10/10.

Hahaha. What's that, you little halfbreed racist? Still hurting that your grandparents ran away from Poland instead of defending this glorious homeland?

yaya accusing him of being racist (typical nonsense).

UK has the second highest overall crime rate in Europe, and that violent attacks have increased by 77% between 1997 and 2009.[6]

In England and Wales, there were 880,000 "Violence against the person" crimes in 2008-9, equivalent to 16 per thousand people.

guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/feb/06/ukcrime.prisonsandprobation

compared too:

Crime in Poland is lower than in many countries of Western Europe.
The 2005 surveys placed Poland below the European average, with victimisation rate lower than in Ireland, England and Wales, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Estonia, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden and Norway.[1] Newer studies (2009) report that the victimisation rate in Poland is constantly decreasing...


and dont get me started on USA.
they have like a bizillion people in prison.

so in summary PolskiMoc was right.

Westerners are way more criminal oriented,

Amen.
legend   
3 Jun 2011
History / Kingdom of Poland Map [14]

euratlas.net/history/europe/1600/index.html

This is the best website I have found.
It shows Europe from 1AD-today
If you want to change the years just select it on the left hand side.

/krolestwo-pols kie

jezus maria... look at the size of that thing. the creator/painter must have been drunk :D
legend   
2 Jun 2011
Life / How do you celebrate Easter in Poland? [29]

-- Attendance at Good Friday services (rarely)
-- making pisanki (parents do)
-- blessing of Easter baskets on Holy Saturday (parents do)
-- Easter breakfast (yes)
-- żur, hard-boiled eggs, kiełbasa, ham, pasztet, babka, mazurki, sernik, sękacz (of course!)
-- Wet Easter Monday (śmigus-dyngus) (when I was a child not now)
legend   
2 Jun 2011
Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]

Its probably Nazi propaganda left over. You still sometimes hear it even in North America.
Funnily enough Polish people have one of the highest IQs. Of course there is stupid ones and smart ones but its an average based off of tests done. Of course IQ does not say everything but its one indicator.
legend   
31 May 2011
Genealogy / Polish DNA? Poles have the most genes in a group includes Balts, Macedonians and Greeks. [263]

Amazing (good and bad). I can say I am somewhat skeptical about this but somehow parts of it make sense. I think the whole Master Race stuff is kinda ****** regardless if its Polish, German, Jewish, etc.

I mean real Aryans are from Iran. Blonde hair seems to be quite popular with Germanics as well though (even those without Polish/Slavic blood) for example Danes, Swedes.

I am curious where are you getting these IQs from?

I have seen some sources which really downgrade countries IQs and others exagerate them as to high.
The only study that makes sense Ive seen is that Germans, Dutch and Poles have the highest IQs in Europe.
legend   
31 May 2011
Feedback / Daily/Weekly Polls (suggestion) [19]

Was it the negative responses?

Was it a forum based poll where people expressed their issues?

Something else was wrong?
legend   
31 May 2011
Feedback / Daily/Weekly Polls (suggestion) [19]

It would be nice if there was daily or weekly polls on this site.

Example:

How Polish are you?
1)I live in Poland/born in Poland
2)Born in Poland/live somewhere else
3)Born elsewhere/live in Poland
4)Have Polish family
5)I am not Polish

etc, etc. (Yes I know my example has flaws in it).

What do you think?
legend   
31 May 2011
History / Der Spiegel: World War II articles [4]

There is a bunch of Ukrainian/German mixes here in Canada (and probably the US and elsewhere).
I wonder why?

And the same is true for Polish/German.
Such is life.
legend   
31 May 2011
History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

Here is a photo of the Nazis meeting the Soviets on September 20th, 1939. It is even less than 3 weeks.
But still, I didn't mean to be derogatory here, MW.

There were still parts fighting after 3 weeks (I think in central Poland they meet but some corners had people fighting).

I just wanted to point out that pictures dont tell the whole story (in your case its probably legit)
Remember Italians took pictures of Polish cavalry and all that stuff which was just propaganda.
One time Polish cavalry beat a German infantry division and then tanks rolled in to massacre them.
(But the calvarly never charged the tanks or anything ridiculous like that).
legend   
31 May 2011
News / Poland to scrap scholarships for 50,000 students [8]

Thats a nice building in that picture. Here the universities/colleges are ugly (on the outside).

I think people should not be excluded from post secondary because they are too poor.
I prefer a country that is literate and has education than some place in USA where soooo many people dont even go to post secondary.
legend   
31 May 2011
UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]

Wow. PolskiMoc perfectly said really.

10/10

Oh but me questioning the Holocaust could land me in jail in some nations sadly by the Zyd control.

Thats so sad tbh.It just proves more that they are in control of things.
Here in Canada (the biggest pro-zionist country out there) instant jail + fines.
I think the same is true even for Germany. I mean look what has happened to Germany (and the rest of the world). Its completely 'controlled'.

Israel has Apartheid against Palestinians but that is okay!

Unfortunately true. When Jews kill its fine according to media "Self Defense". When someone has a bad opinion of Jews they get hanged by the balls.

62 million Slavs died in the Largely Jewish Bolshevik Revolution.

Its very very sad that people dont know this.

Lenin and Trotsky and many others all Athiest Jewish "Russians".

youtube.com/watch?v=OkKJmPsV4Tc
Enjoy :)

(Some morons think this is a conspiracy haha).
legend   
31 May 2011
Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

/blond_hair_map1.jpg

Interesting map... I cant believe Eastern England and Scotland have more percentage of blonde hair then Poles though -_-

On my dads side everyone has dark hair and on my moms side blonde.
Funny enough I have dirty blonde hair though.
legend   
31 May 2011
Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]

Im a Slav and if you saw me you would think im the whitest person on earth.

I would think the majority of slavs are 'white' but there has been a lot of mixes.
legend   
30 May 2011
Life / Why are Polish people so obsessed with race? [160]

I hope the topic creator realizes that all these things were LONG before WWII, Nazis, Hitler, etc.
Secondly we hate Hitler and what we say has nothing to do with the Nazis.
In fact Polish people have like 1000 years of experience with Jews so we know what to say.
legend   
27 May 2011
History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

We fought unlike many ***** countries. What the **** did your country do huh?
You sign a treaty for a reason. Every country would get invaded and ran over regardless of preparation.
Significant action? We fought. Plus Poland was the 4th largest ally contributor to the war even. We fought on more fronts than any allied country.

I dont think you understand the power of Germany and Russia and their numbers.

Poland prepared to the best of their abilities moron. Think of Russia vs Ukraine what would happen.
It would be like a fat guy sitting on an ant.

Well, there were no flies in Poland after 3 weeks.

Its called a resistance. We had the biggest one in Europe (AK, Bch which my grandparents were part of).
At the same time we had troops scattered throughout Europe.

Is there an ignore feature on this site? Too many idiots.
legend   
27 May 2011
History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

Absolutely. The UK declared the war against the Nazis immediately after the attack, sent its troops during the war on the continent, gave the planes, weapons, food to the Polish soldiers and now this embarrassment of the XXI century quacks pathetically that the Britain did nothing. Shame. It isn't even worth wasting words.

Britain did almost nothing. Declaring war without SIGNIFICANT action is pointless.
They dropped a few fliers here and there and maybe bombed a few ships.
Quite a reaction by the Brits.

They gave planes, weapons, food, etc to Poles (and others) after France was raped but that was afterward. We are talking about 1939 here not 1940 or 1941.

Another reason they were giving Poles and other nations supplies was because Britain needed all the help it could get. If it wasnt an island it would be run over faster than Poland and France easily. A week tops :)

They sent troops to the war which then ran like flies to dunkirk and hell knows where.
legend   
25 May 2011
Law / Does Poland have the most prehistorical and strictest banking system in the world? [57]

Here in Canada my last job paid in cheques. Its still one of the main to do things :|

My dad visited Poland first time in 25+ years and he basically said that parts of Poland were more advanced than NA and other European countries.

Its common sense that in Canada and US not everything is modern.
legend   
24 May 2011
Language / How to pronounce the Polish word "w" in sentences? [15]

What does OP stand for? But yeah that's great information, thank you it helps a lot! I was listening to it on rosetta stone and I couldn't hear the w at all when they speak the sentences.

How is Rosetta stone? Do find it is good in learning languages like Polish?
legend   
24 May 2011
History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]

If they had control of central bank where money is printed, I could say maybe..

They do. Its called the Fed Reserve. Funny enough the 5 top figures of this Fed are all Jewish too :)
legend   
23 May 2011
History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]

Was it anti-jewish-source.com?

Not quite. When it refers to Jews it means (Jewish by blood, son/daughter of Jewish mom, and religion).
For example people dont think Bill Gates is Jewish but he is (his parents parents or something like that).
You seem to know about Jewish people so you know what Morano is yes? Bill Gates is one of them.

Written by Michael Epstein

Jewish Americans are the most powerful and influential ethnic group in America. Jewish Americans make up 2 percent of the U.S. population yet comprise 40 percent of U.S. billionaires.

18% of jewish households have a net worth of $1 million or more. More than 55% of all Jewish Adults received a college degree and 25% earned a graduate degree.

More than 60% of all employed Jews are in one of the three highest status job categories: professional or technical (41%), management and executive (13%) and business and finance (7%).

Over 45% of large gifts made to charity are made by Jewish Americans. Over 50% of Jewish Americans live in just four states: New York, New Jersey, Florida and California.

When "one" says? Somewhat racist, don't you think?

no I think the idea of calling someone racist is overblown today and so in most cases I ignore it.
In America you say black guy likes fried chicken and its racist (thats bull****).
legend   
23 May 2011
History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]

"The Jews" or just people who are Jewish?

People who are Jewish. When one says "The Jews" its not refering to all the Jews but some influential rich Jews who live in America.

What is it about? About the numbers of $$$$$ ? Then, check out top 100 richest people of USA, as I said above. They are not more than 10-15 people.

I read a source that says 50% of American billionaires are Jewish. Thats quite large for only 6 million people in the US.