Hahaha. I'd gladly accept a jew in my family. No second thoughts about thatThere's now way on God's green Earth that Poles are less anti-Semitic than Czechs. Either a terrible polling protocol or the Poles are lying.
Tightly knit - true. Favorable? Not quite, at least it is questionable. From 14th to 17th century indeed it was was the golden age and both groups lived together and worked in relative peace and harmony. Poland or rather the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth (which in fact was a huge multicultural concept) collapsed in the 18th Century which led to many divisions both on ethnic and economic fields. At that time anti-semitism has become the thing in Poland. Poles wanted to fight for independence but Jews minded their own business (it is partly true as some of the freedom fighters were of Jewish origin) and didn't want to meddle. Long story short - antisemitism reached its peak after Poland regained its independence in 1918-1921 and lasted until the war. 2nd WW just antagonized both nations even more. Poland was the main 'theatre' of the holocaust or shoah as Jews call it. Even though Poland did not collaborate with Nazis some Poles were eager to help in solving the 'problem'. Pogroms happened. Many Poles saved jews but many made their life even more miserable. Jews were mostly expelled from Poland in the late '60s through some communist manifesto - since that time there is almost no Jew diaspora in Poland. Many Jews hate Poles because they think we as their neighbors abandoned them entirely. Some Poles hate jews because they were told to do so.I thought Poland had a very tightly knit, and mostly favourable history with Jewish people.
Have the luck to know quite a few Israeli people and my wife works for an Israeli company. They seem to not give a **** about their own politicians saying this all over again. Same way as polish domestic politicians use LGBTQ and Islam and I don't give a **** either. I believe that notion is something that the average polish person should NOT spend a second thinking about - so never felt that was something personal.Normalizing relations you say?
*a random Israeli politician appears and uses the phrase "Polish death camps" 278 times in a five-minute interview"*
nothing personnel, kid
Got me there. Still, we are probably of the same age (+/-5), aren't we? I just prefer spending time outside more often, bookworm ;pIt's a meme, grandpa
You can take solace in that at least Slovaks are more racist than you.
I think this will work only if you have had a chance to meet people outside of your 'cultural bloc' to simply see for yourself. I have an impression that some people (especially those living their lives inThere are so many different real examples of openly racist families suddenly accepting some black or Muslim or whatever fiancé, because the absurd, explicit racist stereotype in their head is so easy to break. Behave like a normal polite human being and they will literally throw their daughters at you.
That's an interesting thought. I am truly curious what you mean by that.but on the other hand everyone east of Berlin is all too happy to tell you how much they hate X or Y group.
I think this will work only if you have had a chance to meet people outside of your 'cultural bloc' to simply see for yourself. I have an impression that some people (especially those living their lives inubiquitousuniform environments) are afraid of this first contact and won't be willing to try.
Yeah, I'm alright, thanks. Not even any morning sickness, the lack even spooked me a little, but it's all good. It just sucks that after the governor-mandated lockdown, I'm on a obgyn-mandated lockdown and lie-down.By the way... @kurczak How do you feel ?
Sounds a bit familiar. I have had mixed feelings after my 6 months of temporary work in the UK n 2006. This was actually the first time I traveled abroad. That was a cultural shock for me especially that Notts is an academic city so it was full of all kinds of different ethnicities. But even there... was something conservative, superior, unspoken even a bit cringy about the locals that I felt in almost every situation and conversation: at work, at some offices, bus stop, etc. I met people of all different sorts... Not all of them of course were like that. I was perfectly aware of my countrymen's 'mixed' reputation (strangely I only heard extremes such as 'your people work really hard' or 'band of thieves and drunkards', no middle ground). But God, how strange it was when the person looked trapped sometimes when I finally revealed where I come from. Later in my life, I met mostly highly educated people from the UK, and it was always a good experience.Conversely, in England there is a veiled awkwardness with every (middle class) white person I interact with. People cross the road to avoid you or ask "politely" where you're going, institutions treat you with suspicion, and often times are person or organisation's very noticeable attempts to avoid saying anything racist around you are more dehumanising than them just being explicit.
Whereas no one in East Europe or China feels this superiority as much as west Europeans.
And even if you do earn some trust and some people will love you whatever your homeland is there will still be people consciously or subconsciously mocking you, questioning your status, discriminating, or even occasionally verbally abuse
Yup, this is so sensation-oriented, typical headlines nowadays. The "black" can be easily exchanged for "women", which I find equally disrespectful.Yeah, this is really blatant if you're black. It often manifests itself as a kind of backhanded reverse, for example you see articles with self-important headlines like "black student gets 3 A Levels" or "black CEO changing the face of business" which is basically 1 step away from saying that black people are incapable of these things.
Knowing that all the people are usually alike I wonder sometimes if black people tend to feel superior. If there are groups that genuinely cultivate that concept? Not through the reactionism to oppression from the whites - I mean just because of true belief. Practicing racism is clearly dominated by white people who even tried to rationalize that in history by looking at the ideal body proportion (sic!). Have black people ever came up with equally preposterous ideas?Personally I actually like this aspect of racism. Every white suburbanite thinks you're stupid, so you get to prove them wrong easily, and thanks to all these "black people lifting themselves out of poverty!!!!!" stories, all the success in your life is attributed directly to you and not to your family or society at large or whatever. The truth is that the area I live in and people I interact with daily aren't that racist to black people at all, so I get the best of both.
Yeah, I'm alright, thanks. Not even any morning sickness, the lack even spooked me a little, but it's all good. It just sucks that after the governor-mandated lockdown, I'm on a obgyn-mandated lockdown and lie-down.
To me it sounds more like it's objectively unsusual (why else write a story about it?), which would make the story underline that black people are in fact not incapable of achieving those things.... for example you see articles with self-important headlines like "black student gets 3 A Levels" or "black CEO changing the face of business" which is basically 1 step away from saying that black people are incapable of these things.