Do you think that Polish people are rude?

Some people in PL, though not many these days, do that - also saying thankyou when leaving office block lifts.

Apparently not.

The only country that I have been to that lacked even their own form of polite behaviour was Cambodia. That was interesting though as I had a local man's knowledge of how the Khmer rouge had turned the society upside-down and they lost many aspects of their traditional behaviour. But even with that I met many friendly and welcoming Cambodians.

A huge one here in Poland is the "hand shake", when there are ten people in the place, You shake all of their hands, everyone must take off their gloves and it can not happen through a doorway.

In Lithuania there was the opposite behaviour, if you were conversing with a friend and some of that person's friends came over to say hello, they would completely blank you every time. They don't know you, so that's that.


Harry is not Polish.

He was born in Australia but claims no nation as his own.

Do say it. I don't care if its corny...

Here's my ten cents

It doesn't matter what people's manners are like. It only matters whether you like them or not. Manners are only what we use to judge people we don't like. People have used the whole manners thing as an excuse to hate since the start of time.

Its all about having the ability to tolerate differences in ettiquate (cant spell that stupid french word) There is no common courtesy except that you don't kick someone in the nuts or steal their stuff or bone their girl friend the rest is just whimsical. They are just notions. If you cant tolerate, do yourself a favor and put yourself in a place where you can

WHAT???
It seems I have some apologising to do...This could take a while.

Im Irish too BM and I have been very rude. But what can you do? I'm seriously charming so noone cares if I lack manners or not:-0

They are not rude they just dont fancy answer ten times a day ''I'm good;I'm alright thank you etc just like english one

I think its more like to be honest and not a repeat rubbish all the time if its not a true
Many people asking ''how are you and to be honest I dont think anyone of them give a **** about it how r u feel in the mean time.

Its more like polish people ale going straight to the point of conversation,english loves talking!its doesnt matter is it true or fairytale they just love it!

with polish one its not this same-they like talking but many sentences you can say in one straight option than english doing.
English people are smiling all the time even they think ''you are bloody bastard!''they will not tell you that.
And polish people will gonna tell you straigh to face if it is so.
Thats the different.

You are kidding of course :)

He was reading from the back of a matchbox, let it go ;)

I kind of agree with that. Many people ask me how am I, and they usually expect "Fine thanks" in return. I'm a talkative guy so after me asking about the same thing they are saying fine thank, I usually go deeper with questions and they always seem to be annoyed.. pleasentries.. barf

Polish people are rude, plain simple
"Get out of the country you ******! you come here your gonna get KUR**ED!

Get's to bring the correct information into someones brain quite fast I say.
Wish my fellow countrymen were like that :/

some are and some aren't

now why don't you all fck off, if you please:)

Plagiarism costs, Ironside ;) ;) Right enough, though. Some are and some aren't.

That pretty much sums it up. I'm in complete agreement!

Iwona You sound like a miserable cow. If you dont like our culture why on earth are you here. Go back to Poland where you can be as rude as you like. Really go away.

Yes many Polish are Rude. Very Rude. especially the women.

You are not very bright, aren't you? Iwona posted 3 years ago.

Maybe Iwona the miserable cow went back to Poland?

So maybe she is not a miserable cow after all? :)

I think he calls himself that.

i think that most of westerners are just soft pus5ies

That doesn't mean that you have to be rude and boorish though, McCoy. It's not cool to be that way at all and thankfully there are many that aren't.

Polish are rude but Russians are even more rude.In generał what you see in Poland exists in a larger extent in Russia.

Exiled, you can't go typecasting a nation like that. What I have found from living abroad is that people act differently when they use English. For example, in Japan, they tend to be more flowing when the linguistic peculiarities of Japanese are removed. Keigo (respect language) is less required and relationships become more natural and less determined by social strata, i.e hierarchical concerns.

In Poland, sth similar applies. When they are in their workplaces, there is more wrangling and arguing, this is part and parcel of some establishments here. However, they tend to get a new lease of life when using English. They revel in their learning and I make it my priority to tease that out to the max.

The point is, we are not robots and are often affected by out surroundings. I reacted differently in my Japanese cooking classes, for example. I had a heightened sense of awareness that I was in a different culture and tried to mingle and fit in. The same in Poland but to a lesser extent. I have to be aware of some cultural idiosyncracies here but it's more like home than Japan is.

I get along well with Slavs since they are neighbours.I mean what they do seems natural to me.On the contrary Westerners are often non-reacting to astonishment.

Why not say that you just get on with people based on their individual characteristics? I don't care if you are Slavic, Celtic, African or whatever else, you should be seen as an individual and judged accordingly.

What, like going to the toilet, eating and drinking? Seems natural to me too.

Non-reacting? That's not true at all, it depends what kind of astonishment and what Westerner.

On a general scale of world rudeness, the Poles would be in the top half but that's as general as I'm prepared to go on the matter.

English are reacting,Germans are not reacting.But generally if you notice,the friendlier the nation the more likely to be screwed.

So the Greeks must be very friendly then, right? :0 ;)

Unfortunately yes.Like mediteraneans in general.

Is that deduced from bedroom observation Kebab boy?

You would be annoying if you were not an idiot.

In Poland we say "born-yesterday" on ppl who don't know life. Natalee apparently you have born yesterday. Each man has its own character - don't you find ridiculous to claim that all polish ( especially women...xD) are rude? I'm really sorry you have such a low opinion on us but mind one time you find rude man, another time you meet nice man - such a life! There are no easy rules ruleing the world... so maybe chill out a lil'bit and don't be so upset, frustrated, grumbling and ranting woman - it really truns against you (if its common for you to be like that in everyday life).