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Tolerance? I think this term has been misinterpreted recently, especially by left-wing circles. Misinterpretation here consists in bending the meaning of the word to their often evil needs. Tolerance must be categorically distinguished from the indulgence of frivolity. It is necessary to tolerate and support those who, for various reasons and through no fault of their own, remain behind. The concept of tolerance can have no application in the case of willful pests, criminals, deviants and other immoral representatives of our human species. No indulgence for this group. Besides, abandoning the Faith and adopting the Marxist philosophy of life is not a turn from darkness to light, it would indeed be for the average Pole to go off the right path towards darkness. This process could now be observed in almost all of Western Europe. European civilization from the beginning has always been based on three pillars, which are Greek philosophy, Roman law and Christianity. It's like a table with three legs, the removal of one of which will always cause the table to fall. Therefore, the elimination of Christianity and an attempt to replace it with consumerism or Islam will certainly end in a civilizational catastrophe for Europe. It's only a matter of time until that happens, and burying our heads in the sand isn't going to change anything.
@@RobReacts1 No, it's not lazy in the slightest, it's reality. If you don't understand this, it probably means you're lost and unable to tell the difference between true tolerance and permission to be frivolous. I'm sorry, but it's you who, seeing it this way, is taking convenient mental shortcuts. Please see the extra note in my first post. What do you think? Thank you and best regards.
About tolerance in Poland. It is true that due to history many Poles lack knowledge about other nations (in 90's many Poles never did see person of color due to whole Iron Curtain thing) and may be intolerant toward specific behaviors. But it is not true that Poles are racist on principle or toward religion. Poles absolutely do not mind Polish Tatars or Turks (who are Muslims), it is more problem of how someone behave.
o!! that's big true!! Basically Polish think that English "how are you" is rude because you don't really mean it / you're not interested in it at all - so why asking? ;P
@@Cyryl...whatever Well, that's because most people that ask it do NOT care about it, as it's literally just a pleasantry to show that 'you matter', which you're supposed to return with asking them the same thing to show that 'they matter too'. Thankfully this ridiculous notion never latched on in Poland. The only pleasantly ever needed is a quick 'hello' when passing by your neighbor/someone familiar. Other than that, talk about the things that you REALLY care about and it's going to be fine.
That is so true :D Lie about being involved or taking care, and even then do more lies by crapy execution of questions. Then get the same crap as an answer: Oh, fine. B...it done, KPI is finie, corpo ritual done :D we all lie about how much we care and love each other :D
Not every man in Poland works as mechanic, but every polish man is expected to know at least a little in construction or mechanics to do some such stuff at home.
Tell me about it! I am a girl, so I have it easier, but my brother is mocked by all our uncles that he can't do anything, for example do some fixes to his bike. I can't do eaither, but they are harsh only for him, because it is his duty as a man to know this stuff.
I am a speech therapist and I can explain what is so unusual about Polish "kurwa". Most countries use one stroke when pronouncing "r" (there are exceptions, e.g. the French use the back of the soft palate). The Polish "r" is multi-stroke. To pronounce it correctly, you need to tap the tip of your tongue against the palatal roller several times. This makes it expressive and gives the impression of growling when speaking.
Regarding being intolerant, it is not true. Our meaning of this word is very close to the original meaning in latin. Tolerance is our generous gesture to others, we are allowing to live here, we are showing great hospitality, but we are expecting to respect our culture, religion and tradition. If somebody is not willing to respect it, demanding from us change in the way we don't like, we are simply saying go away and don't bother us. Live your life as you wish, but don't expect from us we will change our country for you. Simple as that. And healthy approach IMHO. Look at Ukrainians, they respect our culture and they are welcomed in our houses. There is no other nation with this level of hospitality like Poles, so telling we are intolerant is not fair. We just still remember who is the host and who is the guest. The problem with muslims in western countries is much deeper, with its roots in '50s of XX century. We don't have this heritage and problems and don't need to stick with modern, western definition of tolerance.
That's what I wanted to say. Exactly. I can add that we are highly intolerant to any illegal attempts of people coming to Poland, especially storming borders and aggressive people invading our culture and demanding we changed. No. They can fuck off. It's not a place for someone disrespectful because we will respect your culture as long as you respect ours. If someone comes and starts commenting how we run our place? Only Poles can criticise Poles on how they run their country. We have enough divisions and quarrels, we don't need someone who doesn't understand our history never mind language to tell us how to live.
In short: Tolerance is not acceptance. That's something the "West" seems to have forgotten. When it comes to Arabic nations, or maybe specifically Muslim ones, Poles simply know these people are only going to comply with the norms when they are in a small minority, if at all. I mean, we've seen what happened in Germany when one town council was overran with Turks who promptly banned any public display of Christmas celebration.
About complaining: Poles don't complain as much as you'd think, but when a Pole does begin to do so... You're in for a treat. The ammount of vocabulary this language provides specifically for complaining makes Polish pretty much fun to complain in lmao
We do complain a lot. I know no other nation that complains as much. Complaining is a gist of Polish culture and an important psychosocial phenomenon, historically determined and deserving deeper studies.
Some people curse a lot and some people don't say it at all, this one a popular curse word in Polish, but people who overuse it are perceived as lower class usually. As for tolerance, most people in Poland are not politically correct and will not like you just because you came from another place. You need to earn the trust and if you do, you will find friends among Poles. Ukraine situation clearly shows that Polish people are not some xenophobes but at the same time they don't want people in Poland who will cause trouble and so are not open to let just anyone live in Poland. In general, if you share Polish values you will be welcomed but if not, Poles will have no problem with telling you that you're not welcome here. That's why Poland was open to taking in millions of Ukrainian refugees but were absolutely against taking in tens of thousands of people from the middle East.
I totally agree with you: we are very open to help anyone in needs without even thinking about it nationality, religion, gender ect... until you behave :). If you live in society like everybody without any riots or crime or intolerance of our culture, you can be an alien from MArs and you're still welcome :)
I agree with both parts. I'd just add the cursing really depends on the environment - e.g. in mine it hardly ever happens and when it does it's perceived as a really bad thing. And nobody uses k-word around me, luckily :)
In regards to "court" a woman. I think what they meant is that Poles in general are very respectful towards woman. We'll open doors for them, grab heavy bags of of them, help them out in most physical tasks even if we do not know them (especially elders). I heard it from a foreigner one time that he saw another foreigner slapping a girl he was with (visiting Poland) and all of a sudden he was surrounded by 20 man trying to bit him up. We have a saying "You do not hit a woman even with a flower" (meaning you do not hit a woman with something extremally fragile/soft(?)). It mostly comes down to history when man fought for Poland against invaders when Poland did not exist for 123 years. Many generations would be brought up by woman teaching them respect, history and patriotic values. Many say that man did their duty to a country fighting for it, and woman did it at home upbringing another generations of Poles. 123 years is a lot of time when Poland could stop existing with 2-3 new generations but thanks to brave woman (who were actively hunted and killed for passing on polish culture) it endured.
5:38 that applies to immigrants mostly, everywhere and all the time. You could say same thing in Poland about Men from Ukraine -> most of construction sites crew is currently 80-100% Ukrainian (with Poles being like architect, team leader, maybe operator of highly specialisted machines). And Woman are mostly cleaning houses (similiar to Mexicans in USA) or working in the closest store as cashiers... These are jobs that require none (or almost none) knowledge, don't require sophisticated skills, or language... I'm well aware that there are also lots of people doing advanced jobs, which i couldn't do -> like doctors, chemistry or enginering specialists, teachers etc. But how often do you see them? People mostly see workers at construction sites or cashiers in shops...
With Vodka it's more of a tradition. When we do drink hard - vodka is implied. Vodka is a cheap way to get drunk and you can get it nearly on every corner, but as you noticed it's more personal. A lot of guys just like to gather and drink a beer or two. Gals may prefer just meeting for a bottle of wine, but for example if there is a wedding - Vodka is being poured by liters.
Obviously, the most annoying stereotype about Poles is that we are thieves. While it was more frequent during the soviet times, when people were deprived of even the basic things, it is a long gone past now. We do have quite a large pay gap amongts various levels of society and and in the poor neighbourhoods crime is obviously higher, but it is not normal for majority of people nowadays.
13:35 Personally I think that people from the internet around the world find Poland and polish people irrelevant, which is not true. Many people from the west have no idea about the history of Poland and are surprised how much it affected the history of the world. Also, in those numerous videos where Americans learn about Europe geography they are surprised that Poland is not a small micronation, but the biggest country in Central Europe.
Once, my friend noticed that I naturally overtook my friend and let her pass at the door. He asked me why I'm doing this out-of-date thing. I answered: 'Women always first because you never know who was hiding behind the door. But the true is we've got it in our blood. Mostly from our homes as well as from common culture, films, books, poems. Social behavior is simply an important part of Polish education and anyone who does not learn it will have a hard time.
About complaining - we like to complain but it's like... We say it's bad but at the end of the day, we pull through. So Pole will say "Yeah, life is bad. But I manage!"
For me It is surprising that the word "kurwa", although it is used so often that it serves as a comma in a sentence, is still probably the strongest Polish curse. It has lost nothing of its power.
It's the powerful combo or Polish "R" right before Polish "W" :D I don't use that word and if I really must express negative feelings with one short word I say something like "drewno" (wood) or "morwa" (mulberry) or I simply say "Rrrrr"
every time somebody talks about stereotypes i get reminded of that scene in Men in Black 3 where Will Smith is stopped by the cops in the past- You think i stole that car because i'm black? I mean i did steal it but not because i'm black.
This thing with vodka is changing throughout years. I think younger generations prefer softer beverages. Our grandads or dads couldn't imagine a meeting with their relatives or colleagues without vodka, but younger Poles nowadays prefer beer or even flavoured beer-based drinks (like radlers, Somersby, Captain Jack and so on). Even more, because in few last years even "zero percent" beers are getting more and more popular, and with almost every month shops are offering something new in this category. So this stereotype is partly true and false at the same time.
Nie używam słowa ,,k...a", ani żadnych wulgaryzmów. Nie lubię, nie znoszę przekleństw. Nikt z mojej rodziny, znajomych nie przeklina. Nawet kolega mojego męża hamuje się przy mnie. Poprosiłam o to grzecznie. Wielu ludzi nie używa takich słów, choć wielu ich NADużywa.
@@RobReacts1 Nie, w Polsce nadal to wulgaryzm, taki z "rynsztoka". Prawdą jest, że próbuje się go trywializować. Kiepski aktor przeklnie i ma ... rechot zamiast braw. Tak się zmieniamy na niekorzyść.
Rappers and young people overuse the K word. The sad part is they mistake bad language for being honest, straightforward and cool, which is a huge misstep in actually being any of those. I call it rebelling against the old ways gone wrong.
Co daje razem 151%. Czyli pijemy dużo. Niektórzy koneserzy nie gardzą ponadto innymi trunkami - brandy, whisky, rumem, bimbrem, a nawet ouzo. Niestety danych procentowych podać nie mogę. Ale, jak to mówią, alkohol pity z rozsądkiem, nawet w dużych ilościach - nie szkodzi.
In 80's polish people drunk a lot of vodka. Now it changes a little. Of course young people on parties still drink vodka, but in many occasions where earlier vodka has been used taoday beer is more popular than this 40-30 years ago.
I've been on the train recently in Poland and a woman entered my compartment cabin expecting me to put her heavy luggage onto the shelf above. She was expecting me being a gentleman like and help her and I was but she didn't say even thank you and was acting as it was something she deserved. Then she put her nose into the phone, played some short reels, talk with someone on the phone while ignoring me and me 100% even when I was attempting to read a book. I changed my seat and moved away from her leaving her alone in the compartment before Gdansk hoping she'd struggle with her suitcase herself when getting out.
Watch a famous Polish film "Dzień Świra". Scene on the train. There you will learn everything about the situation you were dealing with and much, much more. 👍😂
Don't know much about intercity trains, but as a daily commuter on regional ones, seems to me you must have simply gotten unlucky. Most people I see are nice, either not expecting help or being very polite about it. Most people are willing to help as well, it works both ways. The only major gripe I have is people drinking.
"Poles drink a lot of vodka" - I don't agree. Maybe these Poles are living in UK and they're celebrate everything drinking vodka? I don't know anyone who drinks vodka anywhere else beside the wedding party
Masz rację. Mam dużą rodzinę, często się spotykamy, ale nikt nie przeklina, nikt się nie upija. jakieś piwko, albo dwa na grillu, jakieś wino, czy drinki przy innych okazjach, ale żadnego pijaństwa. Współczuję tym "polskim Anglikom", że u nich w Polsce było inaczej.
As a Pole I also thought that drinking a lot of vodka is a true stereotype, but I was proven wrong on many occasions. Apparently, it all depends on the region and the people. Some drink a lot, some do not drink at all. As for being mechanic/construction worker, I feel like it's just a go-to for people without education. But that'd be probably everywhere.
Poles are one of the best programmers, they had a great contribution, for example, in the initial development of OpenAI/ChatGPT and looking back, they have done much, much more.
I agree on paying the bill equally, but I like when man is opening a door for me, just because sometimes doors in public facilities can be really heavy, and I am a small woman, so it is truly helpfull when a man would open doors for me. Not because I am better or something, just because it's nice to have little help sometime.
00:34 The original meaning from the past is "a woman who works in a chicken coop" (from "kur" = chicken, cock). Then it evolved to mean "a woman with bad hygiene", then "a woman who sleeps with many men", then "a prostitute", but nowadays, it's like the English F word, which is basically an expletive, used just for expressing emotions, or in your brain's idle time when it's processing the next word to say ;J 03:24 Well, the question was whether Polish people drink A LOT of vodka, not _how often_ do they drink it ;) They don't drink it very often, but when they do, they usually drink a lot of it :) But yeah, it depends on a person. 03:33 We complain a lot, but not because of negativity - we simply don't like suboptimal solutions and crappiness, yet we have to deal with a lot of it every day. So we complain about it, to express our disappointment in our reality. We point out flaws, because we want stuff to improve. But it doesn't improve, which drives us crazy. 04:56 Hahah that's weird, because I remember that being the opposite a decade or two ago ;) A Brit would say that he's fine and everything is OK even if he was bleeding and barely standing straight :J Could it be that Polish immigrants contaminated you with their tendency for complaining? :g 09:23 I think that depends on how the immigrant behaves. I think that most Poles wouldn't mind an immigrant who is well-behaved and accommodate to our standards of living, learn our language and culture, etc. The problem with Muslim immigrants is that they usually don't - instead, they try to live according to _their_ standards, and even try to enforce their standards in countries they come to. And this is not something a Pole would tolerate. So it's not about the race or nationality at all - it's about the fact that we're hospitable to our guests, but only if they can behave as ones. And if they want to be more than just guests - they want to be one of us - they need to learn our ways and live like us. Of course, you can still find people who are genuinely racist, or people who are xenophobic (especially in smaller villages). But this is true about pretty much every country. 12:57 Great way to put it :J They want equality, but only when it benefits them. But when it comes to paying for dinner, or carrying heavy stuff, they switch to their damsel in distress role instantly :q 13:35 To me, the most annoying stereotype is that Poles are thieves :J Well, maybe not annoying, because I don't care that much, but I would say the most unjust.
You become Polish when you know what tone and in what circumstances to use "kurwa" ;) A joke is quite common - strange The Constitution of the Republic of Poland does not start with the preamble "We, kurwa Polish nation...". Complaining is our national sport xD It is possible that it is also our driving force because we can always have something better. In Polish culture, certain behaviors are not regarded as being a gentleman but as being well-behaved. The same as thanking for opening the door or for helping to carry heavy things. Interestingly, in Poland, it is the woman who shakes her hand first, the custom assumes that I may not be willing to shake it ;). Kissing a woman's hand in greeting is a vanishing custom. Polish pilots during WWII in Great Britain charmed many Englishwomen with this custom.
Im polish and I like my equal chances with men, intellectual as biologically we are build differently. But I love be a woman in the house! I think most of Polish women appreciate their place in family. I’m a high professional, but when I can…I clean and do my home as should be.
On 1-year-old birthday in Poland would be vodka XD Not from this child, of course, but for its father and uncles, maybe grandfather if he can drink (mothers and aunts too, but thats less common).
Vodka was for sure most popular drink in generation of our parents and grand parents (millenial here), younger people drink much much less and mostly beer, also full abstinency or almost full from choice is much more frequent now. As it goes for polish woman I would say... kind of?... depending what you consider as "fully dressup", cuz it's true that it's hard to see a polish women in sweats on the street, but it's not like streets are full of women looking like they are going for party or something. Women are dressed properly and nice in 99.9% of cases.
I don't know anyone among my friends or among my family who would drink vodka, except for such situations as a wedding. When I meet my friends, we mainly drink beer, wine or drinks, nobody drinks vodka from those I know. The last time I drank vodka 35 years ago.
Yes. This is due to bias, I believe. When foreigners ask 'do Polish people drink a lot of vodka?' they understand by 'a lot', drinking it on a regular in everyday life. But for yer average person in Poland they may take it as drinking a lot AT A TIME. Which Polish people do tend to do...rarely, for special occasions. You'd be hard-pressed to find a wedding, birthday party or such without a lot of vodka. But most of those people won't touch vodka again until another party some months or years down the line.
@@kikixchannel Myślę że ten stereotyp tkwi w głowach samych Polaków, u niektórych może to też być nieco dziwny powód do dumy, zwłaszcza wobec obcokrajowców - "ile to my wódki nie pijemy"...To była prawda jeszcze za komuny, ale z każdą dekadą to przekonanie coraz bardziej staje się mitem.
As a Pole i can tell you interesting fact why so many of us are able to make renovations and repairs ourselfs. Just because our fathers taught us, and their fathers taught them. Thruth is that lots of us are working in the UK as renovators without any special school or something like that.
A bit of trivia: -Chicken has two genders, rooster which translate to modern kogut and older kur, and hen that translate to modern kura and older kurwa.
13:18 I think we should just split the bill. You pay for what you wanted. Unless you agree to pay all as a gift (to be extra nice) or if it's your date's birthday or something.
@@RobReacts1 I have some married relatives that would sometimes joke around like: Person 1: I say it's a date so I will pay for your ice cream dessert, Honey. 😊 And the Person 2 is just like: ....we share the bank account
11:43 side note: most people in Poland work from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. ;) I personally work from 7 a.m. till 3 p.m... traffic is definately better 1 hour earlier, also allows to have more time after work :)
Do we say a lot of "fuck" oh yeah. I may not be the best reference because I work as a construction engineer. Do we drink a lot of vodka? As a nation - yes. I personally prefer drinks (I didn't do the bartending course so that I wouldn't use it now). Are we negative? Yes. When two Poles greet each other and ask "how are you", the standard answer is "the old woe doesn't want to die" (pl.: Stara bieda umrzeć nie chce"). Do we all work in construction and as mechanics? No, but all of us know more or less how to do basic home or car repairs. Personally, as an eight-year-old child, I learned to paint walls, mix plaster and fix toy cars that my brother broke. Women go out into the street only dressed up. No. Most Polish women do not wear make-up because they do not have time for it, and only recently cosmetics of good quality and at an affordable price have appeared in Poland. Until 2000, there wasn't a single place in my hometown that sold mascara. Nationalism and intolerance. People are rather curious about other faiths and nationalities, but there is a very small, loud, radical group that unfortunately is very visible. Polish men know how to court a woman...lol! No. I lived in a dorm with almost all men (there were 10 or 15 women in the whole dorm. 20 if we count people working in the administration) and maybe two of them knew what to do. The most annoying stereotype? Pole = deeply believing Catholic. It's bullshit. Most people "believe" because such traditions were handed down by their parents. Faith in Poland is very shallow, the problem is that Poles are very attached to this tradition. Most go to church twice a year, for weddings, baptisms and funerals. If you are looking for something awesome to react to, I highly recommend a video made during first lockdown (Orkiestra online #wdomuzagrane - Co mi Panie dasz). This is my own stereotype about Poles. In times of crisis, they can do beautiful, brave and unexpected things.
2:28 True and untrue at the same time. Vodka is chosen as the main drink during all official meetings, such as: weddings, business meetings (if the nature of the business allows drinking), family holidays (Christmas, Easter). On the other hand, during casual meetings such as: friends after work, at a barbecue, by the fire, in the bosom of nature (a bench in front of the house, park, by the water), drinking alone (stronger alcohols should not be drunk alone), then beer reigns supreme. Wine is a good choice for a date with a loved one, and for New Year's Eve - champagne or more often (because it's cheaper) sparkling wine. So I guess it's like most countries in the world.
Interestingly in 90's this word was only used exclusively by drunk rumdums provided that they were agitated. Now after campaign popularizing various curses it has changed, it is used not only by drunk jakes but also by teenagers and even unconscious kids
Rob, fun fact: I read that we have drinking in our DNA because of years of alcohol usage. It was an official study, not some dumb fb or tiktok thing, lol.
Few comments might be needed here: 1) word "kurwa" isn't only polish word. It's in every Slavic language, and means "women who sells herself" or is just a swear like "duck". But, it's not only group of languages that word appears in. It's also in Romanic languages and Germanic languages: "curve" or "curva", and means, well, "curve". 2) About vodka. As you already know from previous videos, Poland disappears from map in 1795 for 123 years. Before 1795 Poles didn't really drunk vodka, most popular were beer and mead. Vodka made popular when russians came as occupants and bring it with themselves. Unfortunately, it's still quite popular drink at polish parties. 3) About intolerance. It's more complicated than "Poles doesn't like Blacks". Thing is, that common thought for Poles is that everyone can be Pole, as far as he is behaving as one. You might be from Nigeria or Vietnam and can be Pole if you feel as one and behave as one. Of course there is big Indian/Pakistanian communities in Poland and there are accepted as hard working and calm people, but there is one quite irritating thing, that they don't learn polish and live in theirs closed communities which is not really liked in Poland.
We do love to complain. That's why there's an easily fixable issue we tend to take our time when we fix it or we don't fix it at all, because if we fix our issues we wouldn't have anything to complain about 😂
About the Vodka myth - it's both a myth and truth because it has been changing. Back in the CCCP days, if you wanted to drink something stronger than a beer, it would have been vodka. If you're lucky maybe you got something from behind the iron curtain, but generally it was vodka. On top of that, vodka was a rare commodity - at some point everything was rationed, so people who got vodka traded it for other things. If you were going to have a wedding in the family, everyone needed to chip in and trade other things for the alcohol. Obviously, I'm talking about legal alcohol, as moonshining was at it's best at the time as well ;) And the truth is, after '89 it started to change and is changing to this day. If you dig up statistics, we're more of a beer drinking nation now. And as you said Rob, it's gonna depend on the person, because the do have a choice now.
0:29. I would say only people with basic education use: "f*ck", "sh*t" as a comma in every sentence... most people that overuse curse words are usualy physical workers doing simple jobs. "Kurwa" is basicaly a rude word for prostitute, but it's often used to add strong emotions to sentence ( ofc for those people, who dont know how to communicate in more civilised manners)
@@RobReacts1fc, it isand everyone uses them from time to time, but if a simple sentence consist of 4-5 Kurwa and literaly other 5-6 words... and every single sentence is like this... that's not realy a reasonable way of communicating- these 'kurwa' words loose their emotional value and become nothing more then a comma, or... 'errr...' when someone needs a second to think. I personaly think of people who comminicate in such way as pretty primitive ones... dress'em up with rugs, give a thick wooden stick and nobody would spot a differance between them or a caveman... 😂
Actually, "kurwa" is very bad curse word. A generation ago one would hear it only from lowlifes and such. Now everyone is proud for using it. It's disgusting.
What are you talking about? What does an equal society mean? Can you give birth to a child? Can any man do that? I really like being a woman who is given flowers etc. I have never felt discriminated against as a woman. Everyone should have the right to build relationships in their environment according to their wishes, regardless of gender, and not based on the absurd views of a small but very vocal group of women. Soon they will start shouting that the cat wants to be a dog and the dog wants to be an elephant.
I think the most irritating stereotype for me is that "Polish sounds like German". Probably yes, in some cases. But the pronunciation is completely different, in most schools,German is the second foreign language, the first is English. Many people I asked about it said it was one of the worst lessons, probably because the school system is terrible and the country's history unfortunately coincides with language learning. - As for other countries - We don't like our neighbors, except maybe Czechs and Lithuanians. It's nice to see some of their delicacies, culture,These people. No matter what Pole you meet, he will always be in harmony and friendship with Hungarians. We treat the French with such indifference, some say it's a beautiful place, others say it's dirty sewers. We treat other countries according to the person. I cannot speak for all the people in my country, but I will speak for myself.
Actually you ware right with vodka. It was really popular before '90 and still used often by older people but as you can see on video non of the younger guests like vodka. Currently most popular alkohol drink is beer.
When it comes to intolerance, Poles do not like those who want to come just to take benefits, or those who intend to isolate themselves, cheat or disrespect local people. It is very easy to gain the respect of Poles by showing that you work like others or that you assimilate in any way. The fact that a dish originating from Turkey, kebab, has become one of the "national" fast food in Poland and you can find kebab restaurants everywhere, mostly run by Arabs. There are also restaurants from East Asia, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, etc.
9:11 It deals with the society. Novadays people don't see each other that much in cities. In small towns and villages it is different. People do dress up. Why? They know some one they know (neigbhor or famielie) will see them. In a shop, in church in office... People in cities are used to beaning invisible in the crowd, in a mall, in multiplex cinema so who to dress up for?
Stereotype of being intolerant is completely untrue. Poland has long tradition of being a multicultural country. In the 14th century King Casimir the Great issued statute of Kalisz (which in fact was made in 1264, but at that time it worked only in Greater Poland region, King Casimir made it a nationwide act) which guarateed freedom of faith for all of the Jews and was making them official polish citizens. Needless to say in a short period of time Poland has become main/one of the main hubs of Jewish diaspora in Europe and at that time even world (that's why later, during ww2 the biggest Ghetto in Europe was the Warsaw one). Years later, after forming Commonwealth every elected King of PLC needed to sign "Articuli Henriciani" pol: "Artykuły Henrykowskie" providing incl. national and religious equality of all of the citizens of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The king had to promise that he will never try to persecute any of the PLC's religions. Poland was also named "a country without the stakes". Modern day Poland is the same, maybe You'll find racist people, but in fact they are minority and most of them are casuals or as we call them "dresiarze". One girl on yt made a video about that intolerance topic. It's in French, but has english subtitles ruclips.net/video/53RXJh7yryE/видео.html You can also react to it if You want. Personally as a Pole I love meeting people of other nationalities :)
Surprised about our own vodka opinion Well it's alcohol of choice during parties, but not daily drink, except margin od society, it's birthday celebration drink of choice, while on BBQ and other minor events we go for beer As vodka is like water, good base for many drinks as it doesn't come preloaded with flavour
The thing about Poles being intolerant is like 96% of people in Poland are Poles. It's mostly like that because after WWII the Communists did this whole displacement thing with moving people from Polish Eastern Fringes (current Ukraine) to so called "Reclaimed Lands" (previously Germany). And then most of the other nationalities and immigrants live in bigger cities and even here they're barely noticeable. I live in Warsaw I can can spend months without seen any black people. Asiand and Middle-Easterners are a bit more common. But go to a smaller towns and there are just Poles. There are whole generations that never met anyone from a different race.
I'd call it xenophobia, in the literal meaning of the word. Poles simply do not know much about different peoples, so they're scared of them, they distrust them. Doubt there are many actual hateful people around.
10:35 I think it's more like we like our community closed, it's not really that we are racist or something we just don't like outsiders, we keep close. It's more common in older generation but we young people are a bit like that too. Out history isn't funny, occupation, world war 1 and 2, communism etc. Many bad things that happened to us were caused by other nations. We just don't trust others, we are cautious, we don't want others mending in our country. It's not that we don't like them for their sikn colour or religion, we just don't trust them because they are not Poles, and we are scared of what may happen if we let others in. We are stubborn people, we like to do things on our own, we like our privacy. Nowadays it's more like I'm doing my thing you do yours if you will leave me and what's mine alone I don't have anything against you. But politics are always sore point, we argue with each other and better leave it alone if you're not Polish cause you will be accused of mending in other country government for your own benefits and will be viewed as trying to change us and make us do thighs, basically another communism. And it's not open hate or distrust it's more caution and distance at first, if you prove us wrong, that your intentions are not malicious, let us get to know you you will met wonderful and open people. Just break the wall and be open, we will open up for you when we will trust you.
5:45 that's untrue... ofc, there are such people, but it's more possible that they are being prepared to inheirit business their parents have -> whether it will be a farm, a shop, or company hiring 1000 people, these are places where people will learn.... Most people will learn their skills at school. Back in 1990's Poland had loads of job-focused schools which tough skills required to do specific jobs(like managing a hotel, or car mechanics, train mechanics, ironworkers, welders, cooks etc.), but after the reform of education system in Poland in 2000, most of these schools were less popular and some of them collapsed-> everyone wanted to go to high school and college to get a degree. Back in early 2000's only few of these job-focused schools were still on market and many had to change their profile to get any revenue. From those times most popular jobs picked by those people were: car mechanics, beauticians, hairdressers. So some jobs that were less popular now are having lack of skilled people to do them. Problem got even worse after entering EU, because a lot of these skilled people emigrated - they are doing same jobs are here, but are paid in Euro. Now imagaine how hard it's to get a compenent people to make a small or bigger renovation of your apartment/home: you either have to get into half year long queue, pick a random people offering such services (but results are usualy unsatisfying) or do it yourself...
Nah, for descriptions we use "w huj" wich can be used to describe: lenght, time, income, money, weight, speed,height, anything that can be described by a number.
I am polish and I barely drink vodka. Basically -students drink a lot because they become adults, leave home and feel free to do anything without consequences. Its a stupid age
1. Word "Kurwa" can mean multiple things. Most popular are "F*ck" and "Wh*re" 2. Polish people drink often and can drink more then most other countries (on avreage). I would say the problem was the question, bc it was worded "...a LOT of..." - and this is all about the amount, but what about time? If American drink on one evening (once per week) the amount of alcohol that Polish guy through entire week who drinks more? Polish guy, but he drinks some of it every day of the week. To know how to drink is all about drink enough not to get drunk. And yes it subjective, but in general Poles drinks often. I for example drink vodka meybe once-twice per year and Its by far my most favorite drink from vodka, beer and wine. 3. _"Where two Poles there three opinions"_ - We are the sum of our history. We got sacrifaced all the time, while protecting the west. We helped, we got betrayed, sold out and now marginalized by EU calling us Facist country. Remember that for Poland war ended in 1989. The time from Soviet ocupation is still there, when you couldn't speak what you wanted and do what you wanted. Thats why most people in Poland instictivly hide their expresion if there is no reason to smile. Of course when being in conversation or with bunch of firend (even strangers) we try to be kind and respectful. Also in my opinion _"People didn't changed, the times changed"_ 4. The question is strange bc it implies "all" which is false, bc it has to be falce by the logic itself. And no, most man don't learn from fathers the work from their job, but they learn about the stuff around the house. Take car of the lightning, plumbing, how to lay tiles in the kitchen for your wife etc. its just that here if you finde a man or a woman they are jack of all trades (not all of course). 5. Idk I am a man. But from what I have seen "lots of make up" is not so true. In here if woman goes on a date and the guy has 50% off bonuses he is called "economical/frugal" and not "skimpy". At least most of the time. And woman has simillar (not the same) mind set. Not all! They of course use make up, but I wouldn't say much in any stretch of imagination to that word. (sadly more and more younger woman does that). But yea they are always put thogether ready for almost everything. High heels no. Polish woman is all about comfort and "be read to run bc Germany or Russia are invading again" mind set. So no High heels. 6. Lie. Tolerance is not the same as acceptance. If you come to our country and you show respect to our culture, we will show the same respect to yours. But don't try to introduce your culture to ours. Its Poland, our country, our culture. There is a saying in our coutry (roughly translated): _"Do as you wish Tom in your own home."_ - and I think its describe Polish people precisly. If you want to live her, you can. But your own culture should stay inside your own home/house. After all you could take 1mil. Japanes people and make a city 100% like in Japan but in Poland, but then you ask yourself a question, why not just send them to Japan instead? Poland is Poland, Japan is Japan, Germany is Germany, UK is UK etc... 7. We are a little more chivalrous then the west man, bc our woman (majority) still respect us (thanks feminism). If I were in USA for example... lets just say that I wouldn't be. Lets End with that. What is the worst stereotype? - That my country is outlaw country, facist, far right (we are not its just that all west is so faaaar on the left that our little right is far right). Btw. Sry if I sounded a little agressive, I didn't mean to I was trying to give one of perspective of some of the poles. Nice video and have a good night.
9:32 in most parts of poland all ppl are welcome, many ppl would help ppl from other countries that don't have where to stay, the goverment may don't like it but most of ppl don't care.
In my experience, the older generation tended to be vodka lovers. Maybe it was due to the fact that in the times of my parents or grandparents, the selection of alcohol was limited. Vodka, beer, wine (usually homemade) and more vodka.
If you want to know about how "kurwa" is powerfull in PL you have to watch some videos dedicated to that. About this imigrant thing with muslims. Its not about racism. Its not about culture. Its about reason where this imigrant problem came from. It was part of hybrid attack from rusia and belarus. They use their airlines to transport this people to belarus border and force them to break into poland. Poland-belarus border werent closed when it was started. If they go into border post, show documents etc they will probably past into poland and later maybe to Germany. But they dont want to go trough docu check becose... a lots of them where recognized(on photos) as wanted terrorists. So they try to cross border illegaly. And belarus was looking for weak points in Poland border to drop imigrants there. They even give them tools to destroy barricades, fences and cross rivers etc. When it comes to gentleness, of course, it's a matter of upbringing. But it seems to me that in general Poles treat women with more respect than, for example, in the US. But it is the result of two things. 1. Polish culture is rather traditional, which means that a man feels responsible for a woman. One of the examples you may have seen in the video. The fact is that men in Poland, when walking with a woman on the sidewalk, usually go from the side of the street to cover her in case of danger. 2. Polish culture is rather traditional which means that women want to be treated in this way. This of course changes with the younger generations. That's why there are more and more women who will be eaten by their own cats when they die because no man wants them. By devouring feminist pulp on the Internet, they want to be independent. But accustomed to tradition in Poland, they want to be treated like traditional women (respect, care, privileges). This leads to the princess paradox. Where everyone has to treat her like the greatest creature in the world. And she can treat everyone like peasants.
We CAN drink a lot of vodka - I think, that’s the point, and we can still „walk on the line” after, but actually, we, as nation drink more beer. Like Chechs.
3:35 i can aleardy say... most ppl i know aren't like that but some are. it depends on who is that person, kids and most of adults are nice but teenagers like at age 14-18 can be mean. its my opinion, ofc different ppl from poland can think abt it different but me, as a polish girl think abt it like that.
I think us the Poles being intolerant is definitely a myth. I mean I saw lots of Muslims or people like that in Poland just living and nobody complained. The things with no immigrants was that we in Poland by that point already knew how those people behave in Germany or France. Because, duh, The European Union and open borders. And we the Poles actually hear and see *a lot more* then we let on. So we already knew the danger therefore we said *"NO"* . Simple as that. I mean I heard the story about the no go zones in France *FIFTEEN YEARS AGO* from a neighbor who used to work there and just got back. And I had no reason to think that he was lying.
@@queenxx1690 They were calling us russophobes too for being wary of Putin's Russia. Now look at them all. The West should honestly know at that piint that being namecalled is nothing new for us the Poles and that we honestly couldn't care less at this point. We just do what we have to do and if the world wants to be against us - so be it. We've been in that situation more than once in our history and we're still here. It takes a lot more than nasty but senseless words to take us down.
@Rob Reacts Well about this vodka drinking, it's not that difficult. Yes, if you talk to a particular polish person at random and ask them if they like vodka, there's like a 50/50 chance they will say yes or no, it does come to person, i myself am kinda repelled by it and i prefer Rum or Whiskey, also i don't drink a lot and i'm generally lightheaded, BUT there's a big but. If you'd ask if Poles in general drink a lot of vodka, the answer is always yes. What you said about 1 year old birthdays isn't actually far from truth xDDD Like you can imagine, 1 year old party, the kids won't drink ofc, but it's always an occasion for your father and uncle to "spout" a shot of vodka... maybe two... or 5... well, half a litre on two is nothing, right, might as well finish it? So on daily life you'd say many poles don't drink vodka, but come at a wedding or a new year's eve party and suddenly there's like 2 abstinents, 3 other people that don't drink vodka and only some wine or champagne, and the remaining 95 people are loading so much vodka you might as well order a cistern. There's also many people that drink every weekend/ friday and on top of that many alcoholics that drink daily or almost daily. For every family around 50% of relatives will enjoy vodka and on occasions around 70-90% of relatives will drink it. It's not that much of a myth, that's a lot, and i mean, A LOT. My grandpa is 89 years old and he still loves vodka. All my male relatives from that grandpa's side of my family like it, and the male relatives from the other side of my family enjoy it sometimes too much 😅 Trust me, ask a Pole for "drunk uncle/aunt stories" and every single one of them will have a bunch to tell.
Polish just drink a lot, not only vodka. There are special stores that sell alcohol, cigs and snacks. Only this nothing else. And they are everywhere. In every part of the city, you can walk out the house and get in that shop. Its called "monopolowy"
2:28 Not even kidding, thats exactly what happens here, the kids dont drink of course. Even if you dont like vodka, you will probably drink a lot of it.
I hate this stereotype about vodka. Frankly speaking, as a Pole, I know hardly anyone drinking vodka regularly. Among people drinking alcohol those drinking beer or wine are more common.
In my circles we drank vodka most often I'd say, might have just been our preference. For me there's no point in drinking alcohol if you don't wanna get drunk, at least somewhat, so why not bring out the big guns? Never enjoyed the taste of alcohol in anything. Though I'm a teetotaler now, so perhaps it's really just me :D
For dinking one we have saying - dziś są urodziny Ani, ani moje ani twoje, that translate to - today is Anna's birthday, neither mine, neither yours. That make less sense in english, cuz anna's and neither bouth translate to polish "ani" so it is to say, we don't have occasion, but it is not a problem, we don't need one to drink. ;)
Broooo, it would be so good to one day like talk to you and explain a lot of these things - where phrase/stereotype/joke comes from, what is the opinion around the world about it and what is the truth. Especially with like tolerance. Did you know that when ancient romans were killing Christians in coloseum for fun, on the terrains of Poland women could be warriors, women could be chosen to rule in like settlements etc. Did you know that in Poland intolerance towards Jews never existed? In 1600,1700s when Polish kings were elected (democracy far earlier than in other countries), they had to agree and sign certain documents that guaranted freedom for all people regardless of their religion etc? Did you know that when Polish troops in Napoleon's army were sent to Haiti to suppress a slave revolt against french colonizers, they saw humans in these black slaves and saw that they are fighting for their freedom so they decided to help them against french and they won. There was always a law there that prohibited the granting of citizenship to people from outside Haiti. Those Poles from Napoleon's armies who helped the Haitians fight for freedom were the only ones for whom an exception was made. Did you know that in most european countries being homosexual was against the law? In Germany, the last person convicted of homosexuality was released from prison after 2000. In the meantime, there has never been a law in Poland prohibiting orientation other than heterosexual. And no one ever paid any attention to what other people's likes and dislikes were. Also in short - the truth is that Poland has always been the most tolerant country. Despite this, unfortunately, now the world is throwing slanders and lying sentences on Poland, which is why it is considered the worst, most intolerant place. And the truth is that slavery never existed in Poland. It is here in Poland that everyone who feels part of Poland has always been able to feel at home. Europe could learn from Poland tolerance and openness to other cultures.
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Tolerance? I think this term has been misinterpreted recently, especially by left-wing circles. Misinterpretation here consists in bending the meaning of the word to their often evil needs. Tolerance must be categorically distinguished from the indulgence of frivolity. It is necessary to tolerate and support those who, for various reasons and through no fault of their own, remain behind. The concept of tolerance can have no application in the case of willful pests, criminals, deviants and other immoral representatives of our human species. No indulgence for this group.
Besides, abandoning the Faith and adopting the Marxist philosophy of life is not a turn from darkness to light, it would indeed be for the average Pole to go off the right path towards darkness. This process could now be observed in almost all of Western Europe. European civilization from the beginning has always been based on three pillars, which are Greek philosophy, Roman law and Christianity. It's like a table with three legs, the removal of one of which will always cause the table to fall. Therefore, the elimination of Christianity and an attempt to replace it with consumerism or Islam will certainly end in a civilizational catastrophe for Europe. It's only a matter of time until that happens, and burying our heads in the sand isn't going to change anything.
@@wladyslawbukowski Don't make it a left vs right thing. That's very lazy!
@@RobReacts1 No, it's not lazy in the slightest, it's reality. If you don't understand this, it probably means you're lost and unable to tell the difference between true tolerance and permission to be frivolous. I'm sorry, but it's you who, seeing it this way, is taking convenient mental shortcuts. Please see the extra note in my first post. What do you think? Thank you and best regards.
@@wladyslawbukowskiI It's true.
About tolerance in Poland. It is true that due to history many Poles lack knowledge about other nations (in 90's many Poles never did see person of color due to whole Iron Curtain thing) and may be intolerant toward specific behaviors. But it is not true that Poles are racist on principle or toward religion. Poles absolutely do not mind Polish Tatars or Turks (who are Muslims), it is more problem of how someone behave.
Yeah, don't ask a Polish person "how are you" if you are not actually interested in how they are :P
o!! that's big true!! Basically Polish think that English "how are you" is rude because you don't really mean it / you're not interested in it at all - so why asking? ;P
@@Cyryl...whatever Well, that's because most people that ask it do NOT care about it, as it's literally just a pleasantry to show that 'you matter', which you're supposed to return with asking them the same thing to show that 'they matter too'.
Thankfully this ridiculous notion never latched on in Poland. The only pleasantly ever needed is a quick 'hello' when passing by your neighbor/someone familiar. Other than that, talk about the things that you REALLY care about and it's going to be fine.
That is so true :D Lie about being involved or taking care, and even then do more lies by crapy execution of questions. Then get the same crap as an answer: Oh, fine. B...it done, KPI is finie, corpo ritual done :D we all lie about how much we care and love each other :D
Not every man in Poland works as mechanic, but every polish man is expected to know at least a little in construction or mechanics to do some such stuff at home.
It is Polish home survival.
"If you are born poor then either adapt and overcome or die. And here we are." -probably someone
Tell me about it! I am a girl, so I have it easier, but my brother is mocked by all our uncles that he can't do anything, for example do some fixes to his bike. I can't do eaither, but they are harsh only for him, because it is his duty as a man to know this stuff.
Polskie wakacje. Bierzesz dwutygodniowy urlop i robisz remont mieszkania. ;)
While "kurwa" does indeed translate as "w*ore", it's more like the English word "f*ck", but more versatile.
Google can't decide if it wants to translate to whore or fuck 🤣
@@RobReacts1it depends on context. Sometimes is means "stronger" adjective
@@RobReacts1 Google is able to translate this word no more than a few times a day 😂
@@RobReacts1 google doesn't understand Polish language 🤣
Yes, apparently average "ku...wa" usage is 22 per day according to polish news.
The word "ku....wa" is attractive because of the "R" in the middle, which can only be pronounced and accentuated by a "true Pole" 😂🤣❤🇵🇱😂🤣
Dales tak przepiękną wykładnie tego określenia ze chyba lepszej już w życiu nie przeczytam 🤣🤣👍👏❤️🔥
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Tak jak mówił Dwight z The Office:
"'R' is among the most menacing of sounds. That's why they call it murder and not mukduk."
R jest spoko, ale W jest taką wisienką
@@Qoobon_ Szczególnie jak mówi Anglik. Wtedy to jest "w" = "ł".
U Polaka tylko "Rrr" 👑👑💥👑👑
I am a speech therapist and I can explain what is so unusual about Polish "kurwa". Most countries use one stroke when pronouncing "r" (there are exceptions, e.g. the French use the back of the soft palate). The Polish "r" is multi-stroke. To pronounce it correctly, you need to tap the tip of your tongue against the palatal roller several times. This makes it expressive and gives the impression of growling when speaking.
Regarding being intolerant, it is not true. Our meaning of this word is very close to the original meaning in latin. Tolerance is our generous gesture to others, we are allowing to live here, we are showing great hospitality, but we are expecting to respect our culture, religion and tradition. If somebody is not willing to respect it, demanding from us change in the way we don't like, we are simply saying go away and don't bother us. Live your life as you wish, but don't expect from us we will change our country for you. Simple as that. And healthy approach IMHO. Look at Ukrainians, they respect our culture and they are welcomed in our houses. There is no other nation with this level of hospitality like Poles, so telling we are intolerant is not fair. We just still remember who is the host and who is the guest. The problem with muslims in western countries is much deeper, with its roots in '50s of XX century. We don't have this heritage and problems and don't need to stick with modern, western definition of tolerance.
That's what I wanted to say. Exactly. I can add that we are highly intolerant to any illegal attempts of people coming to Poland, especially storming borders and aggressive people invading our culture and demanding we changed. No. They can fuck off. It's not a place for someone disrespectful because we will respect your culture as long as you respect ours. If someone comes and starts commenting how we run our place? Only Poles can criticise Poles on how they run their country. We have enough divisions and quarrels, we don't need someone who doesn't understand our history never mind language to tell us how to live.
In short: Tolerance is not acceptance.
That's something the "West" seems to have forgotten.
When it comes to Arabic nations, or maybe specifically Muslim ones, Poles simply know these people are only going to comply with the norms when they are in a small minority, if at all. I mean, we've seen what happened in Germany when one town council was overran with Turks who promptly banned any public display of Christmas celebration.
About complaining: Poles don't complain as much as you'd think, but when a Pole does begin to do so... You're in for a treat. The ammount of vocabulary this language provides specifically for complaining makes Polish pretty much fun to complain in lmao
We do complain a lot. I know no other nation that complains as much. Complaining is a gist of Polish culture and an important psychosocial phenomenon, historically determined and deserving deeper studies.
Some people curse a lot and some people don't say it at all, this one a popular curse word in Polish, but people who overuse it are perceived as lower class usually.
As for tolerance, most people in Poland are not politically correct and will not like you just because you came from another place. You need to earn the trust and if you do, you will find friends among Poles. Ukraine situation clearly shows that Polish people are not some xenophobes but at the same time they don't want people in Poland who will cause trouble and so are not open to let just anyone live in Poland. In general, if you share Polish values you will be welcomed but if not, Poles will have no problem with telling you that you're not welcome here. That's why Poland was open to taking in millions of Ukrainian refugees but were absolutely against taking in tens of thousands of people from the middle East.
I totally agree with you: we are very open to help anyone in needs without even thinking about it nationality, religion, gender ect... until you behave :). If you live in society like everybody without any riots or crime or intolerance of our culture, you can be an alien from MArs and you're still welcome :)
I agree with both parts. I'd just add the cursing really depends on the environment - e.g. in mine it hardly ever happens and when it does it's perceived as a really bad thing. And nobody uses k-word around me, luckily :)
In regards to "court" a woman. I think what they meant is that Poles in general are very respectful towards woman. We'll open doors for them, grab heavy bags of of them, help them out in most physical tasks even if we do not know them (especially elders). I heard it from a foreigner one time that he saw another foreigner slapping a girl he was with (visiting Poland) and all of a sudden he was surrounded by 20 man trying to bit him up. We have a saying "You do not hit a woman even with a flower" (meaning you do not hit a woman with something extremally fragile/soft(?)).
It mostly comes down to history when man fought for Poland against invaders when Poland did not exist for 123 years. Many generations would be brought up by woman teaching them respect, history and patriotic values. Many say that man did their duty to a country fighting for it, and woman did it at home upbringing another generations of Poles. 123 years is a lot of time when Poland could stop existing with 2-3 new generations but thanks to brave woman (who were actively hunted and killed for passing on polish culture) it endured.
5:38 that applies to immigrants mostly, everywhere and all the time. You could say same thing in Poland about Men from Ukraine -> most of construction sites crew is currently 80-100% Ukrainian (with Poles being like architect, team leader, maybe operator of highly specialisted machines). And Woman are mostly cleaning houses (similiar to Mexicans in USA) or working in the closest store as cashiers...
These are jobs that require none (or almost none) knowledge, don't require sophisticated skills, or language... I'm well aware that there are also lots of people doing advanced jobs, which i couldn't do -> like doctors, chemistry or enginering specialists, teachers etc.
But how often do you see them? People mostly see workers at construction sites or cashiers in shops...
With Vodka it's more of a tradition. When we do drink hard - vodka is implied. Vodka is a cheap way to get drunk and you can get it nearly on every corner, but as you noticed it's more personal. A lot of guys just like to gather and drink a beer or two. Gals may prefer just meeting for a bottle of wine, but for example if there is a wedding - Vodka is being poured by liters.
It's not only matter of a price, in my opinion, but also "weight" of a hangover. I agree with rest of what you said.
Obviously, the most annoying stereotype about Poles is that we are thieves. While it was more frequent during the soviet times, when people were deprived of even the basic things, it is a long gone past now. We do have quite a large pay gap amongts various levels of society and and in the poor neighbourhoods crime is obviously higher, but it is not normal for majority of people nowadays.
That is generally right.
Nevertheless, we deserved the stereotype.
@@grawl69 Hmm then are all Germans fasci.sts? ;]
13:35 Personally I think that people from the internet around the world find Poland and polish people irrelevant, which is not true. Many people from the west have no idea about the history of Poland and are surprised how much it affected the history of the world. Also, in those numerous videos where Americans learn about Europe geography they are surprised that Poland is not a small micronation, but the biggest country in Central Europe.
*Polish people
Yea, Poland in its history was a damn wall between Russia and "the west". Which mostly worked
Once, my friend noticed that I naturally overtook my friend and let her pass at the door. He asked me why I'm doing this out-of-date thing. I answered: 'Women always first because you never know who was hiding behind the door.
But the true is we've got it in our blood. Mostly from our homes as well as from common culture, films, books, poems. Social behavior is simply an important part of Polish education and anyone who does not learn it will have a hard time.
About complaining - we like to complain but it's like... We say it's bad but at the end of the day, we pull through. So Pole will say "Yeah, life is bad. But I manage!"
"Kurwa" literaly means "whore" but I would argue that it is much stronger word, one of the strongest we have
Yeah, and it's a great base for building up some really heavy curses 😅
I think "jebać" is even harder, if only just because it's more rarely used (we're more used to kurwa).
@@tymondabrowski12 z powodzeniem można te słowa łączyć - o to na kilka sposobów.
K-word is the strongest because it has a great phonetical combo inside which allows us to express a lot of negative feelings just pronouncing it xD
And means "prostitute" too
The question is where they found people for that video.
For me It is surprising that the word "kurwa", although it is used so often that it serves as a comma in a sentence, is still probably the strongest Polish curse. It has lost nothing of its power.
It's the powerful combo or Polish "R" right before Polish "W" :D
I don't use that word and if I really must express negative feelings with one short word I say something like "drewno" (wood) or "morwa" (mulberry) or I simply say "Rrrrr"
every time somebody talks about stereotypes i get reminded of that scene in Men in Black 3 where Will Smith is stopped by the cops in the past- You think i stole that car because i'm black? I mean i did steal it but not because i'm black.
This thing with vodka is changing throughout years. I think younger generations prefer softer beverages. Our grandads or dads couldn't imagine a meeting with their relatives or colleagues without vodka, but younger Poles nowadays prefer beer or even flavoured beer-based drinks (like radlers, Somersby, Captain Jack and so on).
Even more, because in few last years even "zero percent" beers are getting more and more popular, and with almost every month shops are offering something new in this category.
So this stereotype is partly true and false at the same time.
Nie używam słowa ,,k...a", ani żadnych wulgaryzmów. Nie lubię, nie znoszę przekleństw. Nikt z mojej rodziny, znajomych nie przeklina. Nawet kolega mojego męża hamuje się przy mnie. Poprosiłam o to grzecznie. Wielu ludzi nie używa takich słów, choć wielu ich NADużywa.
As I said in the video. I think it's now just a form of expression more often than not rather than profanity
@@RobReacts1 Nie, w Polsce nadal to wulgaryzm, taki z "rynsztoka".
Prawdą jest, że próbuje się go trywializować. Kiepski aktor przeklnie i ma ... rechot zamiast braw. Tak się zmieniamy na niekorzyść.
Rappers and young people overuse the K word. The sad part is they mistake bad language for being honest, straightforward and cool, which is a huge misstep in actually being any of those. I call it rebelling against the old ways gone wrong.
About drinking in poland.
It is about 50/50
50% drink vodka
50% drink beer
50% wine
@@magdabogart6592 1% denaturat 😂😂😂
Co daje razem 151%. Czyli pijemy dużo. Niektórzy koneserzy nie gardzą ponadto innymi trunkami - brandy, whisky, rumem, bimbrem, a nawet ouzo. Niestety danych procentowych podać nie mogę. Ale, jak to mówią, alkohol pity z rozsądkiem, nawet w dużych ilościach - nie szkodzi.
In 80's polish people drunk a lot of vodka. Now it changes a little. Of course young people on parties still drink vodka, but in many occasions where earlier vodka has been used taoday beer is more popular than this 40-30 years ago.
Beer is so much worse for health, I wish vodka will come back as a main alcohol of choice
I've been on the train recently in Poland and a woman entered my compartment cabin expecting me to put her heavy luggage onto the shelf above. She was expecting me being a gentleman like and help her and I was but she didn't say even thank you and was acting as it was something she deserved. Then she put her nose into the phone, played some short reels, talk with someone on the phone while ignoring me and me 100% even when I was attempting to read a book. I changed my seat and moved away from her leaving her alone in the compartment before Gdansk hoping she'd struggle with her suitcase herself when getting out.
Watch a famous Polish film "Dzień Świra". Scene on the train. There you will learn everything about the situation you were dealing with and much, much more. 👍😂
To przykre .
Well Rob, you’ve got bad luck and met, well, a cunt 😅. She should ask you for help and thank you later.
Może to Ukrainka była anie Polka 🤣🤣🤣
Don't know much about intercity trains, but as a daily commuter on regional ones, seems to me you must have simply gotten unlucky. Most people I see are nice, either not expecting help or being very polite about it. Most people are willing to help as well, it works both ways. The only major gripe I have is people drinking.
"Poles drink a lot of vodka" - I don't agree. Maybe these Poles are living in UK and they're celebrate everything drinking vodka? I don't know anyone who drinks vodka anywhere else beside the wedding party
Where do you live?
Masz rację. Mam dużą rodzinę, często się spotykamy, ale nikt nie przeklina, nikt się nie upija. jakieś piwko, albo dwa na grillu, jakieś wino, czy drinki przy innych okazjach, ale żadnego pijaństwa. Współczuję tym "polskim Anglikom", że u nich w Polsce było inaczej.
3:26 fun fact : after WW2 in year 1946 in poland 15-20% of our country profits were made from selling/makeing of alcohol
We invented vodka, so how not to drink "too much of it" 😂❤🇵🇱
Arabs invented vodka
As a Pole I also thought that drinking a lot of vodka is a true stereotype, but I was proven wrong on many occasions. Apparently, it all depends on the region and the people. Some drink a lot, some do not drink at all.
As for being mechanic/construction worker, I feel like it's just a go-to for people without education. But that'd be probably everywhere.
I think its probably beer. Like most countries
Poles are one of the best programmers, they had a great contribution, for example, in the initial development of OpenAI/ChatGPT and looking back, they have done much, much more.
I agree on paying the bill equally, but I like when man is opening a door for me, just because sometimes doors in public facilities can be really heavy, and I am a small woman, so it is truly helpfull when a man would open doors for me. Not because I am better or something, just because it's nice to have little help sometime.
00:34 The original meaning from the past is "a woman who works in a chicken coop" (from "kur" = chicken, cock). Then it evolved to mean "a woman with bad hygiene", then "a woman who sleeps with many men", then "a prostitute", but nowadays, it's like the English F word, which is basically an expletive, used just for expressing emotions, or in your brain's idle time when it's processing the next word to say ;J
03:24 Well, the question was whether Polish people drink A LOT of vodka, not _how often_ do they drink it ;) They don't drink it very often, but when they do, they usually drink a lot of it :) But yeah, it depends on a person.
03:33 We complain a lot, but not because of negativity - we simply don't like suboptimal solutions and crappiness, yet we have to deal with a lot of it every day. So we complain about it, to express our disappointment in our reality. We point out flaws, because we want stuff to improve. But it doesn't improve, which drives us crazy.
04:56 Hahah that's weird, because I remember that being the opposite a decade or two ago ;) A Brit would say that he's fine and everything is OK even if he was bleeding and barely standing straight :J Could it be that Polish immigrants contaminated you with their tendency for complaining? :g
09:23 I think that depends on how the immigrant behaves. I think that most Poles wouldn't mind an immigrant who is well-behaved and accommodate to our standards of living, learn our language and culture, etc. The problem with Muslim immigrants is that they usually don't - instead, they try to live according to _their_ standards, and even try to enforce their standards in countries they come to. And this is not something a Pole would tolerate. So it's not about the race or nationality at all - it's about the fact that we're hospitable to our guests, but only if they can behave as ones. And if they want to be more than just guests - they want to be one of us - they need to learn our ways and live like us. Of course, you can still find people who are genuinely racist, or people who are xenophobic (especially in smaller villages). But this is true about pretty much every country.
12:57 Great way to put it :J They want equality, but only when it benefits them. But when it comes to paying for dinner, or carrying heavy stuff, they switch to their damsel in distress role instantly :q
13:35 To me, the most annoying stereotype is that Poles are thieves :J Well, maybe not annoying, because I don't care that much, but I would say the most unjust.
A stereotype of a German opinion of polish people is summed up in a joke about tourist advertisment "Go to Poland, your car is already there."
00:34 ?Interesting. Some evidence?
@@Diveyl *Polish
That's just one of the theories for the etymology of the word, OP, not the true and only one.
@@Diveyl go to Germany, your ancestors' wealth is already there👽
They said Yes, vodka is popular but on the other hand said beer is more popular. I strongly believe it recently has changed
You become Polish when you know what tone and in what circumstances to use "kurwa" ;) A joke is quite common - strange The Constitution of the Republic of Poland does not start with the preamble "We, kurwa Polish nation...". Complaining is our national sport xD It is possible that it is also our driving force because we can always have something better. In Polish culture, certain behaviors are not regarded as being a gentleman but as being well-behaved. The same as thanking for opening the door or for helping to carry heavy things. Interestingly, in Poland, it is the woman who shakes her hand first, the custom assumes that I may not be willing to shake it ;). Kissing a woman's hand in greeting is a vanishing custom. Polish pilots during WWII in Great Britain charmed many Englishwomen with this custom.
Older peoples drink vodka, younger drink beer wine
Kurwa is used in polish in similar amount fuck is used in english od say
Im polish and I like my equal chances with men, intellectual as biologically we are build differently. But I love be a woman in the house! I think most of Polish women appreciate their place in family. I’m a high professional, but when I can…I clean and do my home as should be.
On 1-year-old birthday in Poland would be vodka XD Not from this child, of course, but for its father and uncles, maybe grandfather if he can drink (mothers and aunts too, but thats less common).
In my area (Lower Silesia) there is absolutely no alcohol at any child-related party. But obviously we drink a lot on any other occasion
Sometimes I feel complaining is a way to socialize in Poland
Well as I said, I think the same in England!
Vodka was for sure most popular drink in generation of our parents and grand parents (millenial here), younger people drink much much less and mostly beer, also full abstinency or almost full from choice is much more frequent now.
As it goes for polish woman I would say... kind of?... depending what you consider as "fully dressup", cuz it's true that it's hard to see a polish women in sweats on the street, but it's not like streets are full of women looking like they are going for party or something. Women are dressed properly and nice in 99.9% of cases.
I don't know anyone among my friends or among my family who would drink vodka, except for such situations as a wedding. When I meet my friends, we mainly drink beer, wine or drinks, nobody drinks vodka from those I know. The last time I drank vodka 35 years ago.
Yes. This is due to bias, I believe. When foreigners ask 'do Polish people drink a lot of vodka?' they understand by 'a lot', drinking it on a regular in everyday life. But for yer average person in Poland they may take it as drinking a lot AT A TIME. Which Polish people do tend to do...rarely, for special occasions. You'd be hard-pressed to find a wedding, birthday party or such without a lot of vodka. But most of those people won't touch vodka again until another party some months or years down the line.
@@kikixchannel Myślę że ten stereotyp tkwi w głowach samych Polaków, u niektórych może to też być nieco dziwny powód do dumy, zwłaszcza wobec obcokrajowców - "ile to my wódki nie pijemy"...To była prawda jeszcze za komuny, ale z każdą dekadą to przekonanie coraz bardziej staje się mitem.
As a Pole i can tell you interesting fact why so many of us are able to make renovations and repairs ourselfs. Just because our fathers taught us, and their fathers taught them. Thruth is that lots of us are working in the UK as renovators without any special school or something like that.
Yea, I would happily have a pole fix my house! I actually had a pole fit my nest thermostat
A bit of trivia:
-Chicken has two genders, rooster which translate to modern kogut and older kur, and hen that translate to modern kura and older kurwa.
13:18 I think we should just split the bill. You pay for what you wanted.
Unless you agree to pay all as a gift (to be extra nice) or if it's your date's birthday or something.
Or your married 🤣
@@RobReacts1 I have some married relatives that would sometimes joke around like:
Person 1: I say it's a date so I will pay for your ice cream dessert, Honey. 😊
And the Person 2 is just like: ....we share the bank account
11:43 side note: most people in Poland work from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. ;) I personally work from 7 a.m. till 3 p.m... traffic is definately better 1 hour earlier, also allows to have more time after work :)
Do we say a lot of "fuck" oh yeah. I may not be the best reference because I work as a construction engineer.
Do we drink a lot of vodka? As a nation - yes. I personally prefer drinks (I didn't do the bartending course so that I wouldn't use it now).
Are we negative? Yes. When two Poles greet each other and ask "how are you", the standard answer is "the old woe doesn't want to die" (pl.: Stara bieda umrzeć nie chce").
Do we all work in construction and as mechanics? No, but all of us know more or less how to do basic home or car repairs. Personally, as an eight-year-old child, I learned to paint walls, mix plaster and fix toy cars that my brother broke.
Women go out into the street only dressed up. No. Most Polish women do not wear make-up because they do not have time for it, and only recently cosmetics of good quality and at an affordable price have appeared in Poland. Until 2000, there wasn't a single place in my hometown that sold mascara.
Nationalism and intolerance. People are rather curious about other faiths and nationalities, but there is a very small, loud, radical group that unfortunately is very visible.
Polish men know how to court a woman...lol! No. I lived in a dorm with almost all men (there were 10 or 15 women in the whole dorm. 20 if we count people working in the administration) and maybe two of them knew what to do.
The most annoying stereotype? Pole = deeply believing Catholic. It's bullshit. Most people "believe" because such traditions were handed down by their parents. Faith in Poland is very shallow, the problem is that Poles are very attached to this tradition. Most go to church twice a year, for weddings, baptisms and funerals.
If you are looking for something awesome to react to, I highly recommend a video made during first lockdown (Orkiestra online #wdomuzagrane - Co mi Panie dasz). This is my own stereotype about Poles. In times of crisis, they can do beautiful, brave and unexpected things.
"kurwa" in polish means more than 1000 words
2:28 True and untrue at the same time. Vodka is chosen as the main drink during all official meetings, such as: weddings, business meetings (if the nature of the business allows drinking), family holidays (Christmas, Easter). On the other hand, during casual meetings such as: friends after work, at a barbecue, by the fire, in the bosom of nature (a bench in front of the house, park, by the water), drinking alone (stronger alcohols should not be drunk alone), then beer reigns supreme. Wine is a good choice for a date with a loved one, and for New Year's Eve - champagne or more often (because it's cheaper) sparkling wine. So I guess it's like most countries in the world.
Interestingly in 90's this word was only used exclusively by drunk rumdums provided that they were agitated. Now after campaign popularizing various curses it has changed, it is used not only by drunk jakes but also by teenagers and even unconscious kids
Rap and Hollywood...
Which word? If You're talking about 'kurwa' than this comment is so stupid, it was always used by everybody around me when I was growing up
@@mateuszmrowczynski5763 Yes, I know that in certain circles and even families this is normal.
@@mpingo91 Well said. In my family it's not acceptable to use such words and I'm very thankful for growing up in such a family.
I can't agree the vodka stereotype. I do not drink vodka at all... I hate iit. And many people I know drink beer or wine instead of vodka.
To prawda, nie pamiętam również kiedy ja i moi bliscy czy znajomi pili wódkę czy nawet piwo.Pijemy wino.
When I was a kid, saying kurwa in public outside your neighborhood could get you punched in the face. Today, people have no distance from this word.
They very often treat this word as a leak. If the word is missing
Rob, fun fact: I read that we have drinking in our DNA because of years of alcohol usage. It was an official study, not some dumb fb or tiktok thing, lol.
Few comments might be needed here:
1) word "kurwa" isn't only polish word.
It's in every Slavic language, and means "women who sells herself" or is just a swear like "duck".
But, it's not only group of languages that word appears in.
It's also in Romanic languages and Germanic languages: "curve" or "curva", and means, well, "curve".
2) About vodka.
As you already know from previous videos, Poland disappears from map in 1795 for 123 years.
Before 1795 Poles didn't really drunk vodka, most popular were beer and mead.
Vodka made popular when russians came as occupants and bring it with themselves.
Unfortunately, it's still quite popular drink at polish parties.
3) About intolerance.
It's more complicated than "Poles doesn't like Blacks".
Thing is, that common thought for Poles is that everyone can be Pole, as far as he is behaving as one.
You might be from Nigeria or Vietnam and can be Pole if you feel as one and behave as one.
Of course there is big Indian/Pakistanian communities in Poland and there are accepted as hard working and calm people, but there is one quite irritating thing, that they don't learn polish and live in theirs closed communities which is not really liked in Poland.
*Polish
We do love to complain. That's why there's an easily fixable issue we tend to take our time when we fix it or we don't fix it at all, because if we fix our issues we wouldn't have anything to complain about 😂
About the Vodka myth - it's both a myth and truth because it has been changing. Back in the CCCP days, if you wanted to drink something stronger than a beer, it would have been vodka. If you're lucky maybe you got something from behind the iron curtain, but generally it was vodka. On top of that, vodka was a rare commodity - at some point everything was rationed, so people who got vodka traded it for other things. If you were going to have a wedding in the family, everyone needed to chip in and trade other things for the alcohol. Obviously, I'm talking about legal alcohol, as moonshining was at it's best at the time as well ;) And the truth is, after '89 it started to change and is changing to this day. If you dig up statistics, we're more of a beer drinking nation now. And as you said Rob, it's gonna depend on the person, because the do have a choice now.
The answers from the software developer and the mechanic are showing the difference between two Poles ;-)
if i think about it, a lot of people i know in Poland don't drink much vodka, but we think others drink too much
0:29. I would say only people with basic education use: "f*ck", "sh*t" as a comma in every sentence... most people that overuse curse words are usualy physical workers doing simple jobs. "Kurwa" is basicaly a rude word for prostitute, but it's often used to add strong emotions to sentence ( ofc for those people, who dont know how to communicate in more civilised manners)
Not always the case. It is just a word after all
@@RobReacts1fc, it isand everyone uses them from time to time, but if a simple sentence consist of 4-5 Kurwa and literaly other 5-6 words... and every single sentence is like this... that's not realy a reasonable way of communicating- these 'kurwa' words loose their emotional value and become nothing more then a comma, or... 'errr...' when someone needs a second to think. I personaly think of people who comminicate in such way as pretty primitive ones... dress'em up with rugs, give a thick wooden stick and nobody would spot a differance between them or a caveman... 😂
Actually, "kurwa" is very bad curse word. A generation ago one would hear it only from lowlifes and such. Now everyone is proud for using it. It's disgusting.
Because now days everything is cool, I am not saying that is nice.
What are you talking about? What does an equal society mean? Can you give birth to a child? Can any man do that? I really like being a woman who is given flowers etc. I have never felt discriminated against as a woman. Everyone should have the right to build relationships in their environment according to their wishes, regardless of gender, and not based on the absurd views of a small but very vocal group of women.
Soon they will start shouting that the cat wants to be a dog and the dog wants to be an elephant.
I think the most irritating stereotype for me is that "Polish sounds like German". Probably yes, in some cases. But the pronunciation is completely different, in most schools,German is the second foreign language, the first is English. Many people I asked about it said it was one of the worst lessons, probably because the school system is terrible and the country's history unfortunately coincides with language learning.
- As for other countries - We don't like our neighbors, except maybe Czechs and Lithuanians. It's nice to see some of their delicacies, culture,These people.
No matter what Pole you meet, he will always be in harmony and friendship with Hungarians. We treat the French with such indifference, some say it's a beautiful place, others say it's dirty sewers. We treat other countries according to the person. I cannot speak for all the people in my country, but I will speak for myself.
Actually you ware right with vodka. It was really popular before '90 and still used often by older people but as you can see on video non of the younger guests like vodka. Currently most popular alkohol drink is beer.
Beer is so much worse for health, I wish vodka will come back as a main alcohol of choice
When it comes to intolerance, Poles do not like those who want to come just to take benefits, or those who intend to isolate themselves, cheat or disrespect local people. It is very easy to gain the respect of Poles by showing that you work like others or that you assimilate in any way.
The fact that a dish originating from Turkey, kebab, has become one of the "national" fast food in Poland and you can find kebab restaurants everywhere, mostly run by Arabs. There are also restaurants from East Asia, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, etc.
9:11 It deals with the society. Novadays people don't see each other that much in cities. In small towns and villages it is different. People do dress up. Why? They know some one they know (neigbhor or famielie) will see them. In a shop, in church in office... People in cities are used to beaning invisible in the crowd, in a mall, in multiplex cinema so who to dress up for?
Stereotype of being intolerant is completely untrue. Poland has long tradition of being a multicultural country. In the 14th century King Casimir the Great issued statute of Kalisz (which in fact was made in 1264, but at that time it worked only in Greater Poland region, King Casimir made it a nationwide act) which guarateed freedom of faith for all of the Jews and was making them official polish citizens.
Needless to say in a short period of time Poland has become main/one of the main hubs of Jewish diaspora in Europe and at that time even world (that's why later, during ww2 the biggest Ghetto in Europe was the Warsaw one). Years later, after forming Commonwealth every elected King of PLC needed to sign "Articuli Henriciani" pol: "Artykuły Henrykowskie" providing incl. national and religious equality of all of the citizens of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The king had to promise that he will never try to persecute any of the PLC's religions. Poland was also named "a country without the stakes".
Modern day Poland is the same, maybe You'll find racist people, but in fact they are minority and most of them are casuals or as we call them "dresiarze". One girl on yt made a video about that intolerance topic. It's in French, but has english subtitles ruclips.net/video/53RXJh7yryE/видео.html You can also react to it if You want. Personally as a Pole I love meeting people of other nationalities :)
9:30 oh I disagree there are no Muslims in Poland. In Białystok for example there are a few of them
Surprised about our own vodka opinion
Well it's alcohol of choice during parties, but not daily drink, except margin od society, it's birthday celebration drink of choice, while on BBQ and other minor events we go for beer
As vodka is like water, good base for many drinks as it doesn't come preloaded with flavour
The thing about Poles being intolerant is like 96% of people in Poland are Poles. It's mostly like that because after WWII the Communists did this whole displacement thing with moving people from Polish Eastern Fringes (current Ukraine) to so called "Reclaimed Lands" (previously Germany). And then most of the other nationalities and immigrants live in bigger cities and even here they're barely noticeable. I live in Warsaw I can can spend months without seen any black people. Asiand and Middle-Easterners are a bit more common. But go to a smaller towns and there are just Poles. There are whole generations that never met anyone from a different race.
still they are meet more with curiosity than intolerance
I'd call it xenophobia, in the literal meaning of the word. Poles simply do not know much about different peoples, so they're scared of them, they distrust them. Doubt there are many actual hateful people around.
I think it depends on where the young person grew up, at home I was taught tolerance from an early age
Vodka at age 21? We celebrate our 18th birthday with it. It is the first possibility to drink vodka legally :D
Underline and highligh "Legally" :D
@@typekkleks4013 yes😅
Rob, the word "kurwa" is usually used as english "f" word. Take care mate. Love your work
"kurwa" doesn't mean "whore" but CAN mean "whore" 😂
10:35 I think it's more like we like our community closed, it's not really that we are racist or something we just don't like outsiders, we keep close. It's more common in older generation but we young people are a bit like that too. Out history isn't funny, occupation, world war 1 and 2, communism etc. Many bad things that happened to us were caused by other nations. We just don't trust others, we are cautious, we don't want others mending in our country. It's not that we don't like them for their sikn colour or religion, we just don't trust them because they are not Poles, and we are scared of what may happen if we let others in.
We are stubborn people, we like to do things on our own, we like our privacy.
Nowadays it's more like I'm doing my thing you do yours if you will leave me and what's mine alone I don't have anything against you. But politics are always sore point, we argue with each other and better leave it alone if you're not Polish cause you will be accused of mending in other country government for your own benefits and will be viewed as trying to change us and make us do thighs, basically another communism.
And it's not open hate or distrust it's more caution and distance at first, if you prove us wrong, that your intentions are not malicious, let us get to know you you will met wonderful and open people. Just break the wall and be open, we will open up for you when we will trust you.
5:45 that's untrue... ofc, there are such people, but it's more possible that they are being prepared to inheirit business their parents have -> whether it will be a farm, a shop, or company hiring 1000 people, these are places where people will learn....
Most people will learn their skills at school. Back in 1990's Poland had loads of job-focused schools which tough skills required to do specific jobs(like managing a hotel, or car mechanics, train mechanics, ironworkers, welders, cooks etc.), but after the reform of education system in Poland in 2000, most of these schools were less popular and some of them collapsed-> everyone wanted to go to high school and college to get a degree. Back in early 2000's only few of these job-focused schools were still on market and many had to change their profile to get any revenue. From those times most popular jobs picked by those people were: car mechanics, beauticians, hairdressers. So some jobs that were less popular now are having lack of skilled people to do them. Problem got even worse after entering EU, because a lot of these skilled people emigrated - they are doing same jobs are here, but are paid in Euro.
Now imagaine how hard it's to get a compenent people to make a small or bigger renovation of your apartment/home: you either have to get into half year long queue, pick a random people offering such services (but results are usualy unsatisfying) or do it yourself...
Nah, for descriptions we use "w huj" wich can be used to describe: lenght, time, income, money, weight, speed,height, anything that can be described by a number.
The difference between Poles and Russians drinking vodka - Poles drink an EXCELLENT vodka.
I am polish and I barely drink vodka. Basically -students drink a lot because they become adults, leave home and feel free to do anything without consequences. Its a stupid age
1. Word "Kurwa" can mean multiple things. Most popular are "F*ck" and "Wh*re"
2. Polish people drink often and can drink more then most other countries (on avreage). I would say the problem was the question, bc it was worded "...a LOT of..." - and this is all about the amount, but what about time? If American drink on one evening (once per week) the amount of alcohol that Polish guy through entire week who drinks more? Polish guy, but he drinks some of it every day of the week. To know how to drink is all about drink enough not to get drunk. And yes it subjective, but in general Poles drinks often. I for example drink vodka meybe once-twice per year and Its by far my most favorite drink from vodka, beer and wine.
3. _"Where two Poles there three opinions"_ - We are the sum of our history. We got sacrifaced all the time, while protecting the west. We helped, we got betrayed, sold out and now marginalized by EU calling us Facist country. Remember that for Poland war ended in 1989. The time from Soviet ocupation is still there, when you couldn't speak what you wanted and do what you wanted. Thats why most people in Poland instictivly hide their expresion if there is no reason to smile. Of course when being in conversation or with bunch of firend (even strangers) we try to be kind and respectful. Also in my opinion _"People didn't changed, the times changed"_
4. The question is strange bc it implies "all" which is false, bc it has to be falce by the logic itself. And no, most man don't learn from fathers the work from their job, but they learn about the stuff around the house. Take car of the lightning, plumbing, how to lay tiles in the kitchen for your wife etc. its just that here if you finde a man or a woman they are jack of all trades (not all of course).
5. Idk I am a man. But from what I have seen "lots of make up" is not so true. In here if woman goes on a date and the guy has 50% off bonuses he is called "economical/frugal" and not "skimpy". At least most of the time. And woman has simillar (not the same) mind set. Not all! They of course use make up, but I wouldn't say much in any stretch of imagination to that word. (sadly more and more younger woman does that). But yea they are always put thogether ready for almost everything. High heels no. Polish woman is all about comfort and "be read to run bc Germany or Russia are invading again" mind set. So no High heels.
6. Lie. Tolerance is not the same as acceptance. If you come to our country and you show respect to our culture, we will show the same respect to yours. But don't try to introduce your culture to ours. Its Poland, our country, our culture. There is a saying in our coutry (roughly translated): _"Do as you wish Tom in your own home."_ - and I think its describe Polish people precisly. If you want to live her, you can. But your own culture should stay inside your own home/house. After all you could take 1mil. Japanes people and make a city 100% like in Japan but in Poland, but then you ask yourself a question, why not just send them to Japan instead? Poland is Poland, Japan is Japan, Germany is Germany, UK is UK etc...
7. We are a little more chivalrous then the west man, bc our woman (majority) still respect us (thanks feminism). If I were in USA for example... lets just say that I wouldn't be. Lets End with that.
What is the worst stereotype? - That my country is outlaw country, facist, far right (we are not its just that all west is so faaaar on the left that our little right is far right).
Btw. Sry if I sounded a little agressive, I didn't mean to I was trying to give one of perspective of some of the poles. Nice video and have a good night.
9:32 in most parts of poland all ppl are welcome, many ppl would help ppl from other countries that don't have where to stay, the goverment may don't like it but most of ppl don't care.
4:20 That "love" for complaining is what connects people in United Kingdom and Poland. ;)
haha its true. But if it was at the olympics, we would win ;)
In my experience, the older generation tended to be vodka lovers. Maybe it was due to the fact that in the times of my parents or grandparents, the selection of alcohol was limited. Vodka, beer, wine (usually homemade) and more vodka.
I'm from Poland and I don't know why I'm watching you xD
Because I'm a bloody legend 😉
If you want to know about how "kurwa" is powerfull in PL you have to watch some videos dedicated to that.
About this imigrant thing with muslims. Its not about racism. Its not about culture. Its about reason where this imigrant problem came from. It was part of hybrid attack from rusia and belarus. They use their airlines to transport this people to belarus border and force them to break into poland. Poland-belarus border werent closed when it was started. If they go into border post, show documents etc they will probably past into poland and later maybe to Germany. But they dont want to go trough docu check becose... a lots of them where recognized(on photos) as wanted terrorists. So they try to cross border illegaly. And belarus was looking for weak points in Poland border to drop imigrants there. They even give them tools to destroy barricades, fences and cross rivers etc.
When it comes to gentleness, of course, it's a matter of upbringing. But it seems to me that in general Poles treat women with more respect than, for example, in the US. But it is the result of two things.
1. Polish culture is rather traditional, which means that a man feels responsible for a woman. One of the examples you may have seen in the video. The fact is that men in Poland, when walking with a woman on the sidewalk, usually go from the side of the street to cover her in case of danger.
2. Polish culture is rather traditional which means that women want to be treated in this way.
This of course changes with the younger generations. That's why there are more and more women who will be eaten by their own cats when they die because no man wants them. By devouring feminist pulp on the Internet, they want to be independent. But accustomed to tradition in Poland, they want to be treated like traditional women (respect, care, privileges). This leads to the princess paradox. Where everyone has to treat her like the greatest creature in the world. And she can treat everyone like peasants.
5:34 myth, myth def, i know many adults that don't work or in construction or as mechanics, example is even my history teacher.
We don't drink that much vodka anymore.. Maybe some time ago but now a lot of people prefer wine, whiskey or beer.
Po prostu nie pozwalamy by pozytywy przesłaniały nam negatywy.😊
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We CAN drink a lot of vodka - I think, that’s the point, and we can still „walk on the line” after, but actually, we, as nation drink more beer. Like Chechs.
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i can aleardy say... most ppl i know aren't like that but some are. it depends on who is that person, kids and most of adults are nice but teenagers like at age 14-18 can be mean.
its my opinion, ofc different ppl from poland can think abt it different but me, as a polish girl think abt it like that.
About polish women being dressed up.. I didn't thunk so in the past.. then I moved to Korea about 10 years ago.. Polish women are dressed up well..
7:18 I've never have make up, I have never wore high heels... I'm Polish woman 29 y.o. and I don't need that to look good 😂
I think us the Poles being intolerant is definitely a myth.
I mean I saw lots of Muslims or people like that in Poland just living and nobody complained.
The things with no immigrants was that we in Poland by that point already knew how those people behave in Germany or France. Because, duh, The European Union and open borders. And we the Poles actually hear and see *a lot more* then we let on. So we already knew the danger therefore we said *"NO"* . Simple as that.
I mean I heard the story about the no go zones in France *FIFTEEN YEARS AGO* from a neighbor who used to work there and just got back. And I had no reason to think that he was lying.
Exactly we are just cautious but West and UK see us through what they see in news as intolerant but it's they who really are intolerant.
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They were calling us russophobes too for being wary of Putin's Russia.
Now look at them all.
The West should honestly know at that piint that being namecalled is nothing new for us the Poles and that we honestly couldn't care less at this point. We just do what we have to do and if the world wants to be against us - so be it. We've been in that situation more than once in our history and we're still here. It takes a lot more than nasty but senseless words to take us down.
1:25 Exactly Rob, we use the word "kuwa” almost the same way as the English fuck.
Funnily enough, Google translated it to 'whore' but on RUclips it's translating to 'fuck' although both are Google translate
@Rob Reacts Well about this vodka drinking, it's not that difficult. Yes, if you talk to a particular polish person at random and ask them if they like vodka, there's like a 50/50 chance they will say yes or no, it does come to person, i myself am kinda repelled by it and i prefer Rum or Whiskey, also i don't drink a lot and i'm generally lightheaded, BUT there's a big but. If you'd ask if Poles in general drink a lot of vodka, the answer is always yes. What you said about 1 year old birthdays isn't actually far from truth xDDD Like you can imagine, 1 year old party, the kids won't drink ofc, but it's always an occasion for your father and uncle to "spout" a shot of vodka... maybe two... or 5... well, half a litre on two is nothing, right, might as well finish it? So on daily life you'd say many poles don't drink vodka, but come at a wedding or a new year's eve party and suddenly there's like 2 abstinents, 3 other people that don't drink vodka and only some wine or champagne, and the remaining 95 people are loading so much vodka you might as well order a cistern. There's also many people that drink every weekend/ friday and on top of that many alcoholics that drink daily or almost daily. For every family around 50% of relatives will enjoy vodka and on occasions around 70-90% of relatives will drink it. It's not that much of a myth, that's a lot, and i mean, A LOT. My grandpa is 89 years old and he still loves vodka. All my male relatives from that grandpa's side of my family like it, and the male relatives from the other side of my family enjoy it sometimes too much 😅 Trust me, ask a Pole for "drunk uncle/aunt stories" and every single one of them will have a bunch to tell.
Polish just drink a lot, not only vodka. There are special stores that sell alcohol, cigs and snacks. Only this nothing else. And they are everywhere. In every part of the city, you can walk out the house and get in that shop. Its called "monopolowy"
2:28 Not even kidding, thats exactly what happens here, the kids dont drink of course. Even if you dont like vodka, you will probably drink a lot of it.
I hate this stereotype about vodka. Frankly speaking, as a Pole, I know hardly anyone drinking vodka regularly. Among people drinking alcohol those drinking beer or wine are more common.
In my circles we drank vodka most often I'd say, might have just been our preference. For me there's no point in drinking alcohol if you don't wanna get drunk, at least somewhat, so why not bring out the big guns? Never enjoyed the taste of alcohol in anything. Though I'm a teetotaler now, so perhaps it's really just me :D
For dinking one we have saying - dziś są urodziny Ani, ani moje ani twoje, that translate to - today is Anna's birthday, neither mine, neither yours. That make less sense in english, cuz anna's and neither bouth translate to polish "ani" so it is to say, we don't have occasion, but it is not a problem, we don't need one to drink. ;)
Broooo, it would be so good to one day like talk to you and explain a lot of these things - where phrase/stereotype/joke comes from, what is the opinion around the world about it and what is the truth. Especially with like tolerance. Did you know that when ancient romans were killing Christians in coloseum for fun, on the terrains of Poland women could be warriors, women could be chosen to rule in like settlements etc. Did you know that in Poland intolerance towards Jews never existed? In 1600,1700s when Polish kings were elected (democracy far earlier than in other countries), they had to agree and sign certain documents that guaranted freedom for all people regardless of their religion etc? Did you know that when Polish troops in Napoleon's army were sent to Haiti to suppress a slave revolt against french colonizers, they saw humans in these black slaves and saw that they are fighting for their freedom so they decided to help them against french and they won. There was always a law there that prohibited the granting of citizenship to people from outside Haiti. Those Poles from Napoleon's armies who helped the Haitians fight for freedom were the only ones for whom an exception was made. Did you know that in most european countries being homosexual was against the law? In Germany, the last person convicted of homosexuality was released from prison after 2000. In the meantime, there has never been a law in Poland prohibiting orientation other than heterosexual. And no one ever paid any attention to what other people's likes and dislikes were. Also in short - the truth is that Poland has always been the most tolerant country. Despite this, unfortunately, now the world is throwing slanders and lying sentences on Poland, which is why it is considered the worst, most intolerant place. And the truth is that slavery never existed in Poland. It is here in Poland that everyone who feels part of Poland has always been able to feel at home. Europe could learn from Poland tolerance and openness to other cultures.