USA, Canada /
PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]
Sorry, but if you claim to be Polish-American, then you should be fluent in Polish (not just in listening/speaking) and you should actually have spent a decent amount of time in Poland. Holding a Polish passport and voting Jarek doesn't make you Polish!
no, polish americans don't have to be fluent in polish.. they should be fluent in english, however. it doesn't seem that you understand the meaning of the term
It's because the American Polonia are idiotic to the point of hysteria about it. Look at for instance, the British Polonia from post-WW2. That generation has more or less successfully integrated - and while there's plenty of Polish names about, the grandchildren consider themselves to be British, not Polish. They accept that they come from Poland originally, but they don't go on constantly about it - they are British to all practical extents. Really, I can't say a bad word about the post-WW2 British Polonia.
that made 0 sense dude.. it's the same instance with the US polonia.. wtf are you going on about?
Then you get the American Polonia, who are frankly idiots. They consider themselves to be Polish,
the same generation as the english one you are comparing them to doesn't see themselves as polish but american.. again, wtf are you talking about?
yet they don't speak the language,
huh? oh but many many do speak polish.. there are schools, churches, doctors, lawyers etc. all in polish in chicago an d nyc and other places.. moron
nor do they have any interest in the country. They vote for people like Jaroslaw Kaczynski based on what's reported in the English press -
so, do they show interest or not? voting and keeping up on what is going on in PL sounds otherwise.. you can't have it both ways bucko..
nd they constantly preach about how great it is to be Polish - yet they're about as Polish as I am
lol.. seems you wish you were polish.. fat chance, limey boy
The fact they even use words like "Busha" tells you about them!
you're a real moron.. it's a word from prior centuries.. wtf is it to you anyway?
Then there's the fact that many of them can't even pronounce their name properly - I'm sorry, but you can't claim to be Polish if you can't even say your last name properly. Then you get the fact that many of them claim that their great-grandparents came from Poland - yet when you listen to them, you discover that they emigrated before 1920. Most of them have absolutely no concept that Poland didn't exist for 120 years or so.
yes, there were no poles 120 years ago.. and then you wonder why i and others call you a dolt.. hmm.. lol
But then again, what can you expect from the descendants of very poor Poles from the turn of the 20th century?
and you are just a jealous punk.. get over yourself..
So then if someone goes to college and learns the Polish language fluently, learns how to pronounce their last name perfectly, learns more Polish history, and then discovers that their grandparents emigrated in 1921, they switch from not being Polish to being Polish? Is that how ancestry is decided? It doesn't make sense.
to shallow minds like this limey, yes.. lol
They're still not Polish, because they won't have spent any significant time here. If they move here and live the rest of their days here, then maybe, just maybe, they can be Polish. But otherwise? No.
you truly outdid yourself today.. lol
The problem is that most American Polonia have no concept of what they might actually be ethnically. It's highly unlikely that many of the American Polonia are actually genetically 100% Polish, especially as many of them are descended from Poles who came from the Eastern part - which was a complete melting pot for so long.
That's why I get irritated with the 100% TRUE POLISH crowd - because many of them don't have a clue.
hey buddy.. you are the one without a clue and working on some huge assumptions which are wrong.. you're a real dummy.. go have a shot of vodka and give it up.. lol
Get over your self, you said your not Polish, go care about something else useless.
that's right.. he's just a village idiot. haha
