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Americanization of Poland - good or bad?


Miloslaw 19 | 4,974
9 Mar 2020 #31
Many Poles have left the city for the suburbs

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.
Lyzko 45 | 9,436
9 Mar 2020 #32
Interesting, thanks Milo!
Was in Greenpoint a heck of a lot more recently than in either Acton or Ealing ('76).
Miloslaw 19 | 4,974
9 Mar 2020 #33
@Lyzko

Hey, get it right, it is Aktonn and Ealink..... :-)
JakeRyan
11 Mar 2020 #34
Bad of course, US is long past its great era (40s-80s).
JakeRyan
11 Mar 2020 #35
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.
johnny reb 48 | 7,116
11 Mar 2020 #36
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.
Lyzko 45 | 9,436
11 Mar 2020 #37
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:-)
JakeRyan
11 Mar 2020 #38
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).
Lyzko 45 | 9,436
11 Mar 2020 #39
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.
jon357 74 | 22,050
11 Mar 2020 #40
when in Europe are you from

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.
Lyzko 45 | 9,436
11 Mar 2020 #41
Pretty fair guess, I'd say.
'Scuse the typo:-)
JakeRyan
12 Mar 2020 #42
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.
Lyzko 45 | 9,436
12 Mar 2020 #43
You most likely being in either Slovakia, Bulgaria or the Czech Republic, by process of elimination.


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