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[steviok85]

lundjStuart sums it up well- awkward on the street, very hospitable in the home.
I taught in a small town for a year. Of course, I got some stares and heard some comments when I was speaking English in the street. I'll never forget when an old lady nearly fell over when I said excuse me, in Polish.
I'll never forget the time when I was sitting on a bus with a rather pretty Polish girl just outside Krakow, and this idiot made sure he stamped on my foot as he was getting off the bus. I thought that I had got used to biting my lip and ignoring these things, but this time I was wound up and hurled some abuse at him. It left him a touch baffled.
I learned a lot in those two years in Poland. However, it's hard to make sense of some people.

[citizen X]

[lundjstuart]

I dont need to flatter myself cuz I already married a Polish woman! So no flattery there citizen X!! I think the grass is greener over here compared to American/British women! They aren't as materialistic as our women back home also!

[dynow]

this is getting off topic, but:

have you seen what polish women have to pick from? they aren't going with foreign men because they are "different". they choose foreign men because, quite honestly, they feel as if maybe they have found a chance at something better. maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but the thought is they want something other than the guy picking fights on the tram still living with his parents.

polish girls are a lot smarter than you think. not all, but they are certainly out there. i got one to prove it......she's a gem......

[lundjstuart]

I think that we are all saying the same thing but in different words to some extent! So the final point is: Most Polish men are stupid and still live at home even at 30 yrs old and that Polish women are the most amazing thing!

[ratsareeatingmybrain]

Hmm.

Don't think most Polish guys are stupid. Go back to the UK, walk down a busy high street and remind yourself that idiots are everywhere.

Have met hundreds of outwardly racist Brits. Just because your circles don't include them doesn't mean they don't exist. There are violently racist Poles, sure, and let's not pretend that Poland doesn't have catching up to do in terms of treatment of gays and other nationalities, but most racism I've spotted in Poland is ignorance pure and simple in my opinion, real ignorance, on a level that those Brits certainly can't claim. It's still racism, I'm in no way excusing it, but surely it's more understandable in that context. And don't tell me interracial relationships in the UK aren't often divisive purely on that basis. The UK is not an interracial paradise.

I know masses of Poles that are just as good a laugh as 'Brits, Welsh etc'. The idea they're sourpusses sounds like the view of someone who only knows Poles through encountering them working in shops. Poles are neither hard to get to know nor unable to have a good time. Most Brits and Irish I know in Poland have lots of Polish friends and dont all hang around in expat circles.

Really, sometimes when I read posts on this forum I think I dreamt my 7 years in Poland.

[scotv]

Dittos that, Rats...

Just curious, why did you leave Poland for Lisbon?

[sharter]

"Polish girls aren't as materialistic as Brits/Americans."

Substitute the word 'materialistic' for 'beautiful' and you'd get nearer the truth:))

C'mon...we all bat way above our average in Poland and it isn't because we're better, we're just different.

For what it's worth, I think Poles love materialism and showing off just as much, if not more than anyone. That's why they walk around with ridiculous designer label carrier bags and won't go out for a pint of milk without dressing like peacocks. In the fancier shopping streets, the 'permatan clique' just look ridiculous. Go to a Polish wedding and it's like the cast of 'Dynasty' have turned up....all buffon hairdos and shoulder pads. I met my ex-wife many years ago and she attended a very posh Polish school so I got a good insight into the way better off Polish people are as all her friends were/are of the same ilk. It's weird, the nicest Polish girlfriends I've had, have also been the poorest.

Gone off topic now and I've got a bit boring...so I promise I won't write again for a while.

[Jack Walker]

As another poster mentioned,Poland is 98.7% white Polish.If a white dude goes to the Congo or Sudan I think they will also face stares,finger pointing and possible confrontations.
I wouldn't call Poland a racist country rather a homogenous one and there's nothing wrong with that. It is what it is.
I faced overt racism during my days in Asia and it can work both ways.