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Joined: 20 Feb 2012 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 16 Jun 2013
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ifor bach   
23 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

So what in your opinion should be done, what authorities of a city, where industrial base basically disappeared in the last several years should do ? Spent half of the budget on revitalization of 2 small, peripherial districts ?

1. Spend money on sensible projects that will give people work, and not pointless advertising slogans such as 'Floating Gardens 2050'.

2. Cut the massive bureaucracy in the city. For example, Szczecin Centrum Renowacyjny employs 30 or more people to do nothing. They are not revitalising the city, so therefore they should not be employed by the city.

3. Put a stop to corruption. The city should be run for the people and not those with influential friends.

Those are three suggestions to start with.
ifor bach   
23 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

Surprise, surprise, I know thrse places :)) And your point is ? Please explain.

Do you really believe the powers that be in Poland and Szczecin really care about the conditions people live in in places such as these?

Such people are just forgotten about in Poland.

Btw, Grzegorz, I'm here to discuss, not to flame. For that reason, I'm putting Wulkan on ignore.
ifor bach   
23 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

Why do you imagine you are so incredibly interesting as a poster that I would want to read your previous posts?

To be honest, you give the impression of being an ill-mannered simpleton.

I had wanted to debate, but you aren't capable of doing so. Goodbye.

So please point out what is your problem with poverty in Poland ? I thought you attack it from far left "they don't care about their poor" position. If that's a case, you are simply wrong.

Have you ever been to Stołczyn or Skolwin near Szczecin?

I can post a video if you are interested.
ifor bach   
23 Dec 2012
Life / Why are Poles obsessed with shame? [19]

Russia sees the west as a rival and competitor. Poland looks to the west like a star struck girl with unrequited love.
ifor bach   
23 Dec 2012
Life / Why are Poles obsessed with shame? [19]

Actually, it's a perceptive observation, and something I myself have noticed in the Polish media. I think those are symptoms of an inferiority complex, being constantly concerned about what people in the West are saying.

Very well put.
ifor bach   
23 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

I was not attacking you, only gave you a practical advice

You were making a personal attack and not contributing to any kind of debate.

Why do you feel the need to react in this manner?
ifor bach   
23 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

Ant63:
I would hazard a guess that the majority of Poles that post here are in the haves bracket and know nothing of the have nots experience of life in Poland.

Yawn...

Do you have much of an idea of how life is like for the 'have nots' in Poland?
ifor bach   
21 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

I've read a lot on Polish forums about the west, France in particular, being a 'multicultural hell'. Does anyone in France care about the unintelligent opinions of some ignorant Poles?
ifor bach   
21 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

I on the other hand think that Poles are wasting too much time and attention on what foreigners think about Poland, Poles and Polish this or that. Come on!?.

Exactly. What would the reaction in the U.K. be to any Polish programme perceived as being critical towards the U.K.?

No-one would either know or care.
ifor bach   
21 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

ifor bach:
Probably, it will depend as much on them as on the character of the host nation.

"Character of the host nation"? What's that and how does it relate to this advice:

ifor bach:
Start thinking of people as individuals, and not as members of national groups.

The two statements don't contradict each other.
ifor bach   
21 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

I rather see people inquiring: "i'm Black/Latino and slightly tanned, will I be beaten up in Poland?". Afterwards: "Hi! I just came back from Poland, people were friendly, helpful and I had a nice time there".

We shouldn't generalise too much. Chances are, you're not going to get beaten up. But then again, you might be. But they might go to London instead, and get beaten up there. Or have a great time. Everyone's experience is likely to be different. Probably, it will depend as much on them as on the character of the host nation.
ifor bach   
21 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

Unfortunately the general acceptance of racist tendencies is higher in Poland than in the rest of Western Europe.

It is simply the result of people having been brought up in a homogeneous society. Many people simply don't know any different. This is rapidly changing, however, almost certainly for the better.
ifor bach   
21 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

If someone lives in Poland one can surely observe what kind of the literature is most popular right now in Poland.

Probably, because there are people and people. What you write about your family may be true of them, but is not necessarily true of all Poles. Just as it is not necessarily true that all foreigners look down on Poles.

To be honest, what you have written shows that you personally are to a degree 'cuturally isolated'. I say this, because you are writing about nationalities as if they were an undifferentiated mass. You see a clear distinction between 'your people' and others. You are obviously defensive concerning your own national group.

Had you been brought up in a muti-cultural environment, you would be less prone to making such sweeping generalisations about millions of people you don't personally know.

Lighten up. Don't imagine Poles are constantly under attack. Start thinking of people as individuals, and not as members of national groups.
ifor bach   
20 Dec 2012
Food / Why carp for Polish Christmas? [157]

Merged: Free Poland's carp for Christmas

A group of animal rights activists in Szczecin are demanding 'rights for fish' outside shopping centers.

/free-polands-carp-for-christmas/

Should fish have rights?
ifor bach   
10 Dec 2012
News / Kaczyński stirs up hatred between Germans and Poles. [20]

Kaczyński stirs up hatred between Germans and Poles.

Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Poland's main opposition party, PiS, 'Law and Justice', during a visit to Opole in Silesia, which has a substantial German minority population, suggested that Poland has been far too 'idealistic' to its German minority.

szczecinian.eu/2012/12/jaroslaw-kaczynski-stirs-up-old-ethnic-hatreds/
ifor bach   
29 Nov 2012
Life / Why is Szczecin the most expensive Polish city? [5]

A survey by onet.pl has calculated that Szczecin is the most expensive city in Poland, more expensive than either warsaw or Kraków.

szczecinian.eu/2012/11/szczecin-the-most-expensive-city-in-pola nd/

Why should this be so?