Is there a Polish community in your country?

[TravelingMaaike]

There are many here in the Netherlands, especially in Amsterdam. My observation: they keep to themselves, but are nice once you get to know them. They're polite. And they take their work very seriously. They are good people in my book.

[AmeerX]

No, we don't have a Polish community. But all the people who have met them and that is just limited to 3-4 people I know, they are really really good. Just one case of racism though. It could be a right wing thing. But a Polish girl punched a Turkish boy in a bus and called him racial slurs. Otherwise I think they are good and one incident doesn't prove anything.

By the way, I think the current government I. Poland is pretty anti immigrants and refugees which is pretty much a good thing considering how the people use the asylum and stuff just go away from working in my own country. Good policy 👍.

I personally don't like it the PM Orban I think that was his name and he seemed like a petty politician in other aspects. Seems like a guy with inferiority complex on TV. Poland this Poland that 😅. Great Poland is progressing but not because of people like him. We have politicians like him who are trying to be nationalistic and in turn ruin the country by antagonizing the minorities.

[goaded]

Viktor Orbán is Prime Minister of Hungary.

[AmeerX]

@goaded thanks for pointing it out

https://youtu.be/nBWVuzG8h3Y?si=co6sUqenh_8cmEg5

I am talking about this guy. Sorry for the mix up.

[AmeerX]

But Orban is also like that but I have absolutely no idea of Hungarians.

[goaded]

Yes, he's dismantling democracy in Hungary. He's also popular with the American right. https://www.cpachungary.com/en/

"Elections there are free, in the sense that the vote counts aren’t nakedly rigged. But they are unfair: The government controls the airwaves and media companies to such a degree that the opposition can’t get a fair hearing. Orbán’s party, Fidesz, stands up bogus opposition parties during parliamentary elections as a means of dividing the anti-Fidesz vote. In April 2018, Fidesz won the national elections, cementing Orbán’s hold on power; international monitors concluded that the opposition never really had a fair chance."
www.vox.com/.../hungary-democracy-authoritarianism-trump

[AmeerX]

@goaded 😅 sounds like our establishment 🤣🤣🤣. They use one party use them like puppets then discard them and use the next and there is a lot of power play going on.
Main thing is people matter most. If overall culture of any country is hostile and people don't make ends meet then they will surely have a decrease in their morals overtime to some extent.
Like in my country poverty rate has been pretty high in the past. And crime was high but it has gone down but corruption which is also a crime had increased exponentially.
Get this, we had 9 years of 20 hours of loadshedding and power outages and now that people have gotten the gift of sun and solar we just look for something else besides that from politicians. Still a lot of work but if a politician comes in power and tells us or rather me that past politicians did this or took up too much loans then I am certainly not going to vote for him.
Only thing that matters is improving economy. You can't do it in 5 years then get lost and good bye. If Orban or Dominick like politicians want to make money for themselves, build high rise and send kids to private schools and party. Let them but do something for the people as well. Make the country better, improve economy. Reduce poverty and stop antagonizing that so and so people or group is responsible.
I hate those who play blame game. It's really not a game when people are at stake. I am not sure Americans or anyone would think about it if immigrants were put to good use and more inclusive and less welfare was used.
Immigrants or illegal refugees or whatever one wants to call them are seriously not even desired anywhere.
I am in Pakistan and we had refugees in 1980s who are still refugees in 2023. And they commit crimes far heinous and do a lot of smuggling through American Afghan Transit trade.
Get goods in Pakistan in name of Afghanistan duty free, off load them here and sell them while some Afghan was making millions with each container sold.

[goaded]

It sounds really bad. Freedom of the press is the first thing to go.

[AmeerX]

@goaded press can be bought. Main thing for the country to progress is people's basic needs are fulfilled. Like energy, road infrastructure, housing and shelter, education.
With 250 million population, it's an enormous task but worth it 😊. It's fulfilling to help people and make this country great 😄.
I mean look at Europe, I never like how people make non issues into issues. Like, gays or LGBTQ supporter. Come on, whoever passed that stuff is crazy.
For pro life vs pro choice 😅, why even debate it. Just let people do whatever they want but remind them that it's a life they are taking. Make it that people who get pregnant can give off their children for adoption.
Or look at people pretending to be wolves or dogs 🤣. It's really pathetic 😅.

I think Ukraine and Eastern Europe is in good hands 😊. Like in Poland they have strict laws and trying to uphold traditional values.

[goaded]

Well, I disagree with some of your positions, but I can see where you're coming from. Protection for dispised minorities who aren't doing any harm is important, but I guess keeping people from starving is more pressing in your country.

Abortions - it shouldn't be up to the government. Early abortions don't harm anyone, and late abortions are end of life decisions, like for comatose relatives with no chance of survival. Gay rights are human rights; nobody can reasonably say a 6 week fetus is human, but a 20 year old gay or trans person isn't.

Furries are just having fun; leave them alone. Live and let live.

[AmeerX]

@goaded no one starves in my country now. I am just saying we need more pressing concerns then furries and gay rights 😅.
And right for abortions I am all for it if it's for medical reasons but not right if a girl just says she doesn't want a baby because it will ruin her body. That's crazy.
If a country is going under, it's the entire system and not minorities that are facing the issue. If Pakistan is having an issue, it's the entire country, Muslims, Hindus, Christians are in the mess together.

[goaded]

It's important for everyone to realise they're all in the same boat, independent of religion.

worldpopulationreview.com/.../starvation-deaths-by-country

[AmeerX]

@goaded exactly 💯

[AnusDestroyer3169]

I am from Turkey. One of the earliest ideologs of Turkish nationalism Mustafa Celaleddin Pasa (1826-1876, picture above) was of Polish descent (but he is pretty Turkified, culturally Turk). He is also grandfather of worldwide famous poet Nazim Hikmet which makes him quarter polish aswell I believe. Other than them I dont know any polish that has anything to do with my country so yeah we dont have a polish community here.

[purplepoppy]

There was a Polish village built here in Wales in 1949 to house Poles displaced during the war and up until a few years ago it was still going as a little Polish community

More recently a lot came over when we were in the EU, a lot went back when we left but there's still a sizeable population particularly in the south

[midnightmoon05]

A few towns. I like them. Hard working folks.

[Adventurer23]

Yes, there is a Polish community where I live, as well as other areas of Canada. Polish immigrants have been coming here for many years. For the ones who are born in Poland and are new to Canada, I would say your description is pretty accurate. Sometimes they are not as outwardly social because there can be a language barrier, or they feel embarrassed about how well they speak English. But that is common for many people where English is not their native language, no matter where they are from. But once you talk with them and get to know them they are nice. But again, I think that is the case with most people once you talk with them. Particularly immigrants. Sometimes all it takes is some conversation and a little interest in them to get them to open up and to see their true self. 👍

[Paul09]

I'm Polish. There is a small polish community. But I'm not part of any if that. I don't even know other polish people other then family. Polish women are usually real nice , sweet and beautiful. The men I'm not too sure about. Some seem hard headed I prefer the actual Poland if I had to choose.

[BCA6010]

Most if not all that I've ever known integrated straight into society; they aren't making "Polish communities" if that's what you're asking.

[KostasKouvalis]

Yes, plenty. They're everywhere now. The Polish people in the U. S. are different from the Polish people in Poland, especially the ones who were born here. They're not as nationalistic and formal and they're also not as Conservative.

Considering how anti-social you Dutchies are, I'm not surprised they keep to themselves.

[James_Likes_PPL]

I wish. I have never met any polish people. I live inAmerica. Polish women are very beautiful. Women where I live are not and very ugly.

[ManOnFire]

Hardly any Poles in my neck of the woods. But we do have large Asian, Hispanic, and African communities here. And some Brits and Russians too.

[FunkyMonkee]

We have a town near here called, Polish Hill. About a mile from there is a place that's mostly Polish but, for some reason, they call it, "Little Italy'!

[AviatorTom]

Several cities in the US have Polish communities. I could start with New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, to name a few.

[Staximus]

The was a large Polish population in my dad's hometown back in the 50's. I don't know many Polish people here in California but the ones I hung out with could sure drink a lot of vodka.

[RavVid]

There are poles in Australia - I am acquainted with one.

[SotiCoto]

There are Polish people. As to whether they form "communities" or not, I wouldn't know as I don't pay that much attention and genuinely don't care. Most of my co-workers are Polish so that is just normal to me now.

[jamesgoldman]

Yeah it's pretty plentiful down here
Which is good because then I can get good vodka

[RebelinSteel]

Yes here in England there has always been Polish communities, mainly centred around East Anglia.

[BCRanger10]

There is, apparently, only one city on the planet with more of my fellow Polish folk than my birthplace of Chicago.

Warsaw.

[OddBeMe]

Well my posse just hunted down the Jews, the Catholics, the Irish and OK’d the Asian folk for massage parlors. So we”ll get to the Polacks.

[jshm2]

No. Only a furniture polish community...

Joking aside Polish tend to be good carpenters and joiners here in the UK.

[wiltingrosepetal]

Maybe? I haven't explicitly seen a centralised group in my area but it most definitely exists

[Redstang88]

There’s a large population of polish heritage, but most of our immigrants are from India and China

[CubaPirate]

Yes they're very good people too in the main

[AngryCarl]

We have a fair number of Poles. I'm not sure if it's a community.

[sheikalana]

Never heard of it.

[boobliker]

yes.

[QuietRunner]

yes there is