Americanization of Poland - good or bad?

The same is true of London, for the original Polish immigrants.
I am the last of my family not to have moved out.
The more recent immigrants came into the old Polish strongholds of Acton and Ealing ( or in a Polish accent Aktonn and Ealink) but because of rental and property prices have now moved further out to Greenford.Which is now almost completely Polish.

Interesting, thanks Milo!
Was in Greenpoint a heck of a lot more recently than in either Acton or Ealing ('76).

@Lyzko

Hey, get it right, it is Aktonn and Ealink..... :-)

Bad of course, US is long past its great era (40s-80s).

The smiling in big corporations is fake. I don't like the toxicity they have and the fake smiles don't amount for real friendliness. You can feel when someone's fake.

Are you saying that fake smile is worse than a frown ?
I personally would rather be around a person smiling all the time rather than someone frowning all the time even if the smile may be fake.

Frowns are generally not fake and we know full of drama.

On the other hand, it someone's always smiling (often the habit in both the Midwest as well as the South), kinda hard to trust 'em.

Either a neutral or honestly angry demeanor when called for is much more believable.

Think somehow that the US has taken her cue a great deal from certain Asian societies, in which non-stop smiling even when bearing bad news is fairly commonplace, I'm told. My business dealings with Asians have also borne this out.

The Arabs, don't forget, are known to smile just before plunging the scimitar into the back of their enemy:-)

No, all I'm saying is most desk jobs are toxic, especially those in big companies. So even the smiling doesn't help make them better. Too much office politics, I've never met such nastyness and backstabbing in a small company. Big ones are like high school times 3 or 4 due to the numbers of people being larger (in Europe our classes at his are smaller, at big corporations you often work on a floor with 40+ people).

Once more, when in Europe are you from, that is, where on the continent do you reside?
Curious only as to which country you are speaking about.

Judging by linguistic transference into English, I'd guess it's a country with a South Slavonic language. Perhaps Bulgaria.

We could take bets on it ;-)

he does make some good points about large organisations though; they can be toxic. Smaller businesses are better than creeping corporatism.

Pretty fair guess, I'd say.
'Scuse the typo:-)

I'm speaking about big, foreign-own corporations (3 US owned and one French). Ine based in Slovakia, the other - in Czechia and two based in Bulgaria.

You most likely being in either Slovakia, Bulgaria or the Czech Republic, by process of elimination.

In 1977 the Polish communist TV made a film based on Chandler`s Trouble is my Business. They used American cars, suits and blondes to recreate the atmosphere. And Polish palaces to recreate multimillionaires` dens. And they hired cult actors. No wonder the film was very popular.

I watched it several times for my fave actor who plays Marlowe.
Amasing that so many people are killed at the end. America!!! Free access to guns!

youtube.com/watch?v=wov7D5JgZ5U&t=1685s

I think the US Embassy lent it to them.

I doubt it. They hired cars from private owners - Polish and foreign.

It's so obvious the Polish mainstream media parrot whatever the US mainstream media (aka CNN) tells them to. I read both the American and Polish news and when it comes to international issues, the media in Poland is always 100% aligned with CNN. They got so cheeky that they basically translate the news from English to present it as "independent facts" to Polish people.

CNN "reporters" don't trust their own words. They lie for the paycheck.

They don't "interview", either.

They argue. Questions are just bait.

Like: Why do you hate your mother so much?

They are not reporters, rather political pundits masquerading as reporters. CNN is just an extension of the DNC, all fake news.