Do you think that Polish people are rude?

Rather be considered too polite than considered rude as a nation is what I say :0)

Well in Norway in General if you don't do something against the public or the largest part in an situation it's ok. Like when somebody sneaks by the last person in que it's like no big deal, but when that person sneaks infront of everybody except the first person then EVERYONE "banns" that person, even the one infront of that person. you go against the state/public you get banned. It is also very like in Denmark as one fella has described here also.

And what language would that be?
Mine is Polish and I use those words often and when applicable?


What's so polite in asking a stranger how s/he is if you don't really care and all you want to do is just to pay for that roll of toilet paper and... keep on rolling.

with sarcasim like that you have to be british ;0)

there was no sarcasm P, just astute observation

Yeah, with arrogance like that there is no way you aren't British ;-)

I sent him a message :) all in good fun.

as-tute: definition small flying pocket of air coming from ones backside.. lol

I'm still waiting to be mooned by a bunch of hot Polish chicks. This is acceptable rudeness ;) To be positively encouraged :)

Oh, Hi Muniu ;)

nothing like speaking your mind.. ok so I will fulfill your wish. you want chicks you got it!

youtube.com/watch?v=uosdjxC-CWs

I have been to poland 3 times and have not found them to be rude.

They just stare at me - Im Indian. But that's not being rude. Just curious.

You think Poles are rude? Try Finland.
In short: If you want to move to a place where no one appreciates your hard work but quick to jump at you if you did an iota of fck up then move to Finland.

I'm Polish and in my opinion Polish people are less polite than English. There are many reasons to this - some of them have already been discussed at this forum...

I would like to draw your attention to two more. Firstly in communism most of Polish 'intelligence' (lawyers, doctors, journalists, writers, priests etc) were killed by Russians who 'believed' in the working class and that a 'simple' folk is easier to control. There was a gap in developing of the couture (Poland had to wait for the new generation of 'new intelligence' to grow).

Secondly most of us - polish People who come to this country- are not very well educated. We work in building, cleaning, catering (sorry for generalizing). We can not fairly represent the Polish population.

And one more thing: In my opinion Polish people are much more polite to people they know (they are more rude, or just neutral, to strangers). This could be an effect of the fact that under communism Polish people couldn’t trust anybody, even children at school were brain washed) so people kept distance, didn’t smile to each other on the street, didn’t trust their neighbours etc.

I work in an English language college in Oxford (relax: I don’t teach English:-). Most of our students at the moment are Arabs - lovely people BUT - they come across as...rude (mainly because they don’t use 'please and thank you' quite as often as people in this country). Well - it isn’t their fault. They just try to communicate so they say 'give me this now'...

What I want to say is: yes, there are rude Poles - plenty of them, people with whom I (being Polish myself), wouldn’t feel comfortable at all. But please, before judging, try to think whether it's rudeness or just lack of English and lake of confidence. After all we have a big complex of being less cool that those to the west of the iron curtain.

the foreigners i've met told me that i am...

PS- FYI... i don't mean it... ;P

Many Poles here say that they are rude and intolerant. When I question them, they scowl at me as if to say, 'how do you know, foreigner?'. Then I know they are right ;)

Well personally i am not a rude Polish person. but i have noticed some of my people are rude

Some of any country's people are rude :(

hi i totally agree with you. Im from Afghanistand and most people judge that Afghan people in bad way. i understand what you mean there are some rude people in any where wheather its uk, poland or Afgahnistand.

I don't think Poles have as much social intelligence as other cultures.
They have no qualms about blocking pavements so that other people have to go onto the roadway to get past them; they don't generally stand out of your way for you; don't hold doors open for others, nor say 'sorry' if they bump into you. Poles think nothing of barging into on the pavement, as though you weren't there. It's weird.

You don't notice this as much in Poland, but it stands out more in Dublin when you come into contact with Poles.

this is an often-heard excuse. if this is so, why are the people of Cambodia so friendly and polite?

You could have a point there. Certainly in some big cities like Lodz the majority of the resident urban Poles are only a generation or so away from the village and their rural origins. It might simply be that they are not used to living in such close contact with so many other people. Manners are said to be a social lubricant (like KY jelly I guess) and it's no accident that countries which became urbanised quite early have some of the best reputations for 'manners' (holding doors open, not pushing onto the bus, not spitting in the street, not sitting on their balconies with a beer and only wearing their underpants and a baseball cap etc.)

They are only after your money ,as a foreigner they see westerners as "walking ATM machines".

It depends what you mean by social intelligence and also what comparisons you choose to make.

Like in The Bronx, Harlem or South Brooklyn?

Some are grateful when you open a door, some aren't. The oldies have no appreciation for the most part. There was one today who I had to call sth nasty as not only did she not say thank you, she also grunted at me.

The same happened to my fiancee. We were coming out of a meat shop and this old hag decided to enter before letting us out the narrow automatic doors. It's like you are not there sometimes.

Are these countries, Zed? Go read the post again.

Re-read. Regrouping:

so other words countries such as Italy, Greece or some of the Middle Eastern ones are ahead of England in manners.

Yes z, highly urbanised countries like Italy, Greece and the Middle Eastern ones are renowned, correctly or not, for having good manners. Did the 9 mins it took you to respond include the time spent moving your finger across the screen as you re read that post or was it figuring how to use the keyboard?

Please take your time to think - I don't want to pressure you!

So all we need to establish now is what good manners are.


You are flattering yourself. Speaking of good manners, do you really think all I do is wait to respond to your posts?

Precisely Dariusz. I've said this elsewhere that the Japanese like to slurp their noodles. It's actually bad manners not to. We find that rude and intrusive. Very odd given that the Japanese are less intrusive, preferring instead to keep to themselves.

slurp, slurp;)