don't want to associate with being Polish. It's a sad reality,
Maybe it used to be like that, but nowadays no one has to be ashamed of being Polish.
Polish immigrants contribute to the world
Maybe it used to be like that, but nowadays no one has to be ashamed of being Polish.
It's a sad reality, but equally applies to other Eastern-European nations too
To a lot of nations.
People rarely look at their own country objectively. Also, if they go to a place where there are a lot of migrants from their country, they shudder at the scuzziest ones and feel envious of the ones who they perceive as having achieved the most.
A 45 yo Polish male emigrated to Iceland. It is a cold country with cold people, he claims.
So there was a moment when I thought: this island is a dream, but I can't find my place in this country.
Why, when Iceland is the happiest country in the world after Finland and Denmark according to the 2022 World Happiness Report?
- Icelandic PR is inflated, certain advantages are exaggerated. In theory and at first glance, it is a very tolerant and politically correct society. However, I think that they are trained in this correctness. An Icelander will never tell you directly what they think of you, but they will show you without words that you are like air to them. Because of this, I often feel unnecessary here and definitely a worse person. For example, a randomly met client with whom you dealt with an issue at work two hours earlier will not answer you "hello". He will treat you with contempt because you are a foreigner. Living here since February, I experience more stress than in the last decade in Poland. I am coping with it more and more. It is really hard to cope here as a foreigner and alone.
One of the customers asks me every week: "Have you learned Icelandic yet?" and that's where our conversation ends.
One of the Icelandic writers invited me to an event for people related to literature. They even paid me for it, asked me to speak, and I could do it in English. They were very cordial. But nothing more came of it. Contacts don't deepen because the Icelanders, although very nice, are only open to a certain point. If you don't speak their language, it means you're not from here and you remain a stranger.
So there was a moment when I thought: this island is a dream, but I can't find my place in this country.
Why, when Iceland is the happiest country in the world after Finland and Denmark according to the 2022 World Happiness Report?
- Icelandic PR is inflated, certain advantages are exaggerated. In theory and at first glance, it is a very tolerant and politically correct society. However, I think that they are trained in this correctness. An Icelander will never tell you directly what they think of you, but they will show you without words that you are like air to them. Because of this, I often feel unnecessary here and definitely a worse person. For example, a randomly met client with whom you dealt with an issue at work two hours earlier will not answer you "hello". He will treat you with contempt because you are a foreigner. Living here since February, I experience more stress than in the last decade in Poland. I am coping with it more and more. It is really hard to cope here as a foreigner and alone.
One of the customers asks me every week: "Have you learned Icelandic yet?" and that's where our conversation ends.
One of the Icelandic writers invited me to an event for people related to literature. They even paid me for it, asked me to speak, and I could do it in English. They were very cordial. But nothing more came of it. Contacts don't deepen because the Icelanders, although very nice, are only open to a certain point. If you don't speak their language, it means you're not from here and you remain a stranger.
Polish immigrants contribute to the world
They don't unless these were gifts..
When I immigrated to the US, I, as every other immigrant, didn't give a damn about "the world".
They don't unless these were gifts..
When I immigrated to the US, I, as every other immigrant, didn't give a damn about "the world".
He also notices positive traits of Icelanders. E.g,, their immense trust.
Although I have also made some promising discoveries here. For example, when you are sick, all you have to do is call and tell the doctor, and he will issue a sick note. Just on your word, on faith. What would happen in Poland if we could do that! Everyone would be sick all the time.
I had been renting a flat in a family's house for just a few months and when they went on holiday to Tenerife, they suggested that I use their part too. "Do some bigger washing, take a shower. We don't lock the house," they said.
When the owner of the place saw that I was shovelling and clearing snow every day without protest - and in February it took me four hours to even dig myself out from under the snow - he offered me a longer stay for a lower price, the one from before the season. When I was getting my driving licence, he let me test drive his new Volvo.
Although I have also made some promising discoveries here. For example, when you are sick, all you have to do is call and tell the doctor, and he will issue a sick note. Just on your word, on faith. What would happen in Poland if we could do that! Everyone would be sick all the time.
I had been renting a flat in a family's house for just a few months and when they went on holiday to Tenerife, they suggested that I use their part too. "Do some bigger washing, take a shower. We don't lock the house," they said.
When the owner of the place saw that I was shovelling and clearing snow every day without protest - and in February it took me four hours to even dig myself out from under the snow - he offered me a longer stay for a lower price, the one from before the season. When I was getting my driving licence, he let me test drive his new Volvo.
Przelotnyptak1 - | 388
1 Jan 2025 #36
I can tell you so much that there's nothing on TV about Poland, nothing at all
Oh yeah. A recent story about a British journalist complaining about Polish television fraudulently showing blond,blue eyes, happy Polish children instead the true picture of a dark-skinned, with facial hair little monkey-like critters, and that was a complaint from a nationally acclaimed journalist, not some retarded dweller from the Scottish bogs. That one incident showed all you need to know about the opinions held by Brits. Not every Brit thinks that way, true. but even one
is one too many, and for God's sake, from the fricken journalist in the twenty-first century.