Poland and Polish Discussion Group and Forum

Welcome to the original English language Poland and Polish discussion group board. This message forum is a place where English-speaking Poles, foreigners (expats) living in Poland, and anyone with a genuine interest in Poland can discuss and read the views of others concerning Poland. Subjects include: Polish news and current affairs; Life in Poland; politics; genealogy research; Polish culture and history; advice and tips on visiting Poland; Polish property and investment issues. The aim of our group is to increase awareness of wonderful Poland using the English language and allow and foster the honest debate and exchange of opinions on anything vaguely related to Poland and Polish - positive, negative and/or neutral! This discussion group is not an open-to-all public message board. Membership is by invitation only and therefore given that a fairly limited number of people have full access, it is more of a community blog than a straightforward forum. This application system was brought in to lessen the amount of spam and nonsensical and commercial posts made by casual visitors and off-topic and offensive posts left by a disruptive minority. To ask a one-off question about Poland or respond to comments made on this board without a password just email us and provided it is at least halfway sensible, we'll post it on the board for all to see and current members will try to respond! All opinions and views expressed on this site are solely those of their respective authors and are not necessarily those of anyone else!

Links: Polish Language and Translation Forum; Factbook Poland; Photographs of Poland; Polish Translation; A Town in Poland; Map; Apply for the Poland and Polish Forum Password

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Angela W Feb 8, 08 - 10:41 AM	A Polish sociologists view of Polish attitudes Polish sociologist Ireneusz Krzeminski of the University of Warsaw explains current-day anti-Semitism in Poland in an interview with Kamila Baranowska. "Polish anti-Semitism is an aversion to symbolic 'Jews'. It is directed against other Poles who people accuse of not being 'really Polish'. So it tends to target politicians people don't like, rather than real Jews. What's more, today anti-Semitism can be considered an indication of a certain world-view. Aversion to Jews is linked to an aversion to all 'others' - Germans, the European Union, gays, feminists. That is a typically chauvinist mentality which includes a kind of xenophobia founded on an authoritarian psychological orientation. ... I assume that similar phenomena exist in Ukraine, as well as Lithuania or Latvia, and possibly also in countries whose history is by no means as strongly anti-Semitic, such as Hungary. In Slovakia, such a nationalist mobilisation has already been observed." http://www.rp.pl/artykul/90070.html
Varsovian Feb 8th, 2008 - 3:06 PM	Re: A Polish sociologists view of Polish attitudes Brits hate the French, symbolically of course. Especially the ones we don't like.

	Poland and Polish Discussion Group and Forum Welcome to the original English language Poland and Polish discussion group board. This message forum is a place where English-speaking Poles, foreigners (expats) living in Poland, and anyone with a genuine interest in Poland can discuss and read the views of others concerning Poland. Subjects include: Polish news and current affairs; Life in Poland; politics; genealogy research; Polish culture and history; advice and tips on visiting Poland; Polish property and investment issues. The aim of our group is to increase awareness of wonderful Poland using the English language and allow and foster the honest debate and exchange of opinions on anything vaguely related to Poland and Polish - positive, negative and/or neutral! This discussion group is not an open-to-all public message board. Membership is by invitation only and therefore given that a fairly limited number of people have full access, it is more of a community blog than a straightforward forum. This application system was brought in to lessen the amount of spam and nonsensical and commercial posts made by casual visitors and off-topic and offensive posts left by a disruptive minority. To ask a one-off question about Poland or respond to comments made on this board without a password just email us and provided it is at least halfway sensible, we'll post it on the board for all to see and current members will try to respond! All opinions and views expressed on this site are solely those of their respective authors and are not necessarily those of anyone else! Links: Polish Language and Translation Forum; Factbook Poland; Photographs of Poland; Polish Translation; A Town in Poland; Map; Apply for the Poland and Polish Forum Password
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