Michael there are a huge amount of Jews who stayed in Poland after WW2. A lot of them have Polish sounding names as they got forged documents during German occupation to survive. Jews in Poland were Polish just like the catholics were. My nan had Jewish neighbours before ww2 and she said they always said they would not be able to leave as the river Wisla sings in Yedish to them. I am sure this is something you can relate to as it seems you fit into Poland perfectly. Your videos are a pleasure to watch, please keep them coming.
My grundmother saved life two jewish people during WWII. After war they co-operated with NKWD. Therefore nothing wrong happened to my grundmother and her family.
Razem ze swoimi sowieckimi ziomalami służyli Stalinowi pomocą w wyeliminowaniu polskich patriotów, takich jak Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki i wielu wielu innych.
Thank You for Your content and nice words about Poland- my country 🇵🇱❤ I have Jewish heritage to- my grandmother and my mother are Jewish but my great grandmother left my grandmother (she was born in Germany) because of the war and flew to USA. It’s really hard for me that I know sooo little about my Jewish ancestors. War destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! Even MY GENERATION ARE SUFFERING because of ll world war……😢 Greetings from Poznań 💜
No u don’t have to be an outsider for all the time. Just assimilate. It really is a multinational city, especially Warsaw. Once you can talk in polish you are not outsider at all if you keep the interest in the culture
I think learning the language helps a lot. My English was rather poor when I came to US of A. But I could get by. I remember being very frustrated, because I thought I would be fluent within a year. It took much longer than that. I still feel like an outsider, after several decades, but not because of language, but because I refuse to accept American stupidity which is omnipresent here. I came to terms with that. I think knowing the language at least to intermediate level is essential to be part of the community.
@@Tomasz-r2t Na szczęście nikt cię tam nie zaprasza. Nie martw się słońce znów świeci. Zaświeciło po paru minutach. Cień księżyca jest raczej niewielki i szybko się porusza.
Totally not what I expected, thus very interesting to me. When I visit a Jewish theater in Poland it's not because it represents the culture I was raised in, but precisely because it doesn't. I guess the reason Canadians don't travel is their lack of curiosity about other cultures. Presumably, they believe they already have them in Canada. As for Polish, the best way is to practice. Use every opportunity to speak Polish. There are plenty to choose from in Poland... Spend some time (at least an hour) every day listening to Polish and speaking Polish. You'll notice a huge improvement after a few months.
Dear Michael . I am Polish if you had some void in your soul based on your Polish ancestry and you feel that living in Poland makes it better for you than that’s what you need to do. Your Polish Ancestors were abruptly uprooted from the only place they knew probably for generations.
I have Ukrainian origin. I lived and worked in Canada, as well as in Poland. In Poland, life is more comfortable and safer, as well as cheaper (food, rent, cars etc). But there is lot of xenophobia in Poland, especially in relation to Ukrainians. The locals said that "I was to blame for Volyn" and that I should "go back to Ukraine" for some reason (despite the fact that I was never going to live there).
i mean it makes sense to feel like an outsider if the first time youve been to or even perceived poland was 30+... also u come from a western country so it is just very different in many ways. and you did not grow up around post 1940s polish culture. i think it may be a lot easier for people from ex iron curtain (especially) and south/central europe to feel at home in poland due to a similar language, vibe, mindset, architecture, shared past and cultural moments, etc. honestly i wonder if the canadian mindset is part of what is holding you back (so to speak), i find that the liberal anglo-country "personality type" is just rather foreign, it is steadily being absorbed thru online media but...idk, i think it may be hard to connect with most people and "meet them where they are from" ig with a middle aged nyt-reader-pov? if that makes any sense. it might feel like you are some kind of foreign anthropologist, and not an everyday guy who is living through the same stuff as everyone. i think polish culture for most people is just dealing with enough bs that you know what to expect when it comes to life, so when it comes you can just deal with it😂maybe the complaining builds solidarity in that regard. for example, traits traditionally respected in poland: - resourcefulness (will find a way to solve any problem) - being straightforward/no bs but knowing how to bs when needed lol - street smarts, good at business/dealing with people - personable, down to earth - hospitable and willing to lend a hand - takes care of self & home - family oriented despite what people say about polish people being serious or introverted (?) that is mostly to strangers, having W social navigation matters quite a bit. of course this is traditional though and things change with every generation, or even in every family..this is just what i know also maybe you feel a disconnect because you live in a touristy area, or a bougie area with a lot of foreigners? no clue just throwing it out there and maybe most of your znajome are maybe other foreigners and theater people? which is nice but i dont think is super "immersive," i guess since you will find these people in every city haha, they are all kind of globalized. im not sure how often you deal with "everyday" polish people other than service employees. which ig may be hard bc of polish lanugage level, but most younger people speak english i suppose. sorry for all the yapping lmaoo. but yeah where you are coming from, i can see why it is hard to assimilate. it's always easier if you have a point of comparison from your past.
@@acidsuzanne4049 they need to be privileged and Poles need to have more difficult life then woke ppl feel not guilty for something they didn’t do. Unfortunately woke is a kind of mind disease. He is ok with losing his job he worked all life for cuz he is white ;) this is the lack of logic they use
Michael, Have you heard about Arts Emerson theater? It's a college ran theater in Boston that has a very diverse, international repertoire. It's mind blowing what can you see there. theater troops from all over the world.
as trivial as it sounds... home is where your heart is. Besides, you're a Jew, so what? It's great that you appreciate and cherish these values. making it look like you're a Jew doesn't change anything. for me you are a male man. nobody special.
Bro , stop dev aide mutch for four pieces .It could be reason of depresion .Stop thinking about past and to compare this countries. You have taken decision about move here .U do not need explain to each one about this move .This is your life and ... life is like a Ball and nobody will invite us a second time., at all ... .
my dad grew up in krakow with an old jewish man in his building (1960s), and for some reason there were some soviet jewish guys who moved to warszawa after ww2, and i know poles with jewish heritage but who dont identify as jewish overall though, after ww2 most moved out...PRL had the smear campaign, but also poland was a poorrrrr country. in comparison USA, isreal, western europe just had better living conditions. you saw the same thing happen when poles left to western europe after joining the eu
for example, the PRL poverty became so bad that my mom had to eat soup her parents made out a local dog... she loves dogs so this traumatized her :/ also, she worked as a chemist after graduating, and to simply afford her shoes and lab coat for work, she had to save up 2 months of wages....like what etc. also there were often shortages of items in stores, crazyyyyy lines just to get basic necessities...not very fun
Ciekawe. Jeżeli czujesz, że to twoje miejsce i się tutaj spełniasz, jesteś w domu. Nie wiem czy ktokolwiek rozumie o co w tym chodzi, jakieś kosmiczne sprawy to połączenie żydów i Polski od 1000 lat i jak widać odradza się na nowo. Ciekawe.
Poland is second to last in the most racist countries in Europe. What minorities are treated badly? Google: Which European countries are the most racist There is an article from Euronews
Yes, Poles are extremely racist. Majority of people strongly dislike anyone who is different than them. It doesn't even have to go as far as skin color. Even minorities of a different faith that have been living in Poland for generations are often treated as outsiders. Sure we had a prime minister, a famous ski jumper and even more famous poet who were protestant, but I suspect that they have been accepted because most people do not know that they were/are protestants.
In every country they are racists, Poland is really trying, but we have to understand that Poland is 98% Catholics, and they want to keep that tradition, so they will not take people from other countries knowing that these people will feel isolated and will stand out. Why do we always try to force a country to be exactly the same as others in EU? WTF, don't we have a courage to say to them, excuse me didn't Poland just took 11 million Ukrainian refugees and majority stay in Poland get money for children and also work in Poland. They have assimilated to Polish society, why? because they are the same and they feel good in Poland. Now, if you look at Canada, in here we have 150 different nationalities, it's like a melting pot, wherever you go you see different people speaking different languages, Canada is a country where people from all over the world come to and seek refuge. Although now Canada is starting to look like a dictatorship then democracy and that's why expats and even Canadians without ties to Poland, leave Canada to seek refuge in Poland. So you really have to look at the bigger picture, not just repeat what someone wrote, investigate and ask why, you will get an answer & will have a bigger picture of those issues. Thank you kindly, good luck everyone P.S I am a Polish expat, however I have lived in Canada three times longer then in Poland, so they call me Canadian with Polish roots😊
@@ilonacurle Poland is not 98% catholic by any stretch of imagination. Of course we can argue what makes one a catholic, but even if we restrict the definition to people who were baptized in the catholic church as babies and never had any interaction with that church as adults that number will be much lower. There are regions in Poland with significant orthodox Christian minority as well as protestant minority. With recent significant immigration from Ukraine I am pretty sure than at least 10% of Polish population is orthodox (at least nominally). Probably 10-20% are not affiliated with any religion at all. Also, most major cities in Poland has mosques. In Warsaw they have been since the 80s. There are also a couple of Tatar villages in eastern Poland where there is native Muslim population since 13. century. Poland is not as homogenous as it might look like. Sure, more homogenous than many other EU countries, but it does not give you the right to discriminate against people of other faith of not affiliated with any religion at all.
Michael there are a huge amount of Jews who stayed in Poland after WW2. A lot of them have Polish sounding names as they got forged documents during German occupation to survive. Jews in Poland were Polish just like the catholics were. My nan had Jewish neighbours before ww2 and she said they always said they would not be able to leave as the river Wisla sings in Yedish to them. I am sure this is something you can relate to as it seems you fit into Poland perfectly.
Your videos are a pleasure to watch, please keep them coming.
yes, but it was only about 300 thousand Polish Jews that survived WW2. That's not a huge number at all. Only about 10% of prewar Jewish population.
@@pawelzielinski1398And most of them left to other countries too. Few stayed.
My grundmother saved life two jewish people during WWII. After war they co-operated with NKWD. Therefore nothing wrong happened to my grundmother and her family.
Razem ze swoimi sowieckimi ziomalami służyli Stalinowi pomocą w wyeliminowaniu polskich patriotów, takich jak Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki i wielu wielu innych.
@@Tomasz-r2t and therefore you will hate ALL the Jews forever, correct?
Thank You for Your content and nice words about Poland- my country 🇵🇱❤ I have Jewish heritage to- my grandmother and my mother are Jewish but my great grandmother left my grandmother (she was born in Germany) because of the war and flew to USA. It’s really hard for me that I know sooo little about my Jewish ancestors. War destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! Even MY GENERATION ARE SUFFERING because of ll world war……😢
Greetings from Poznań 💜
No u don’t have to be an outsider for all the time. Just assimilate. It really is a multinational city, especially Warsaw. Once you can talk in polish you are not outsider at all if you keep the interest in the culture
Definitely respect to make such a move, moving to another country. You must have been in your 30's when you moved to Poland.
I think learning the language helps a lot. My English was rather poor when I came to US of A. But I could get by. I remember being very frustrated, because I thought I would be fluent within a year. It took much longer than that. I still feel like an outsider, after several decades, but not because of language, but because I refuse to accept American stupidity which is omnipresent here. I came to terms with that. I think knowing the language at least to intermediate level is essential to be part of the community.
Could not agree more, you belong in Poland ❤
W Polsce kiedyś mówiono o miejscu dobrym do życia "Kanada" albo życie jak w Madrycie
Tak. Nawet jest takie znaczenie w słowniku. "kanada" z małej litery.
@@Ula-Ka coś z tą Kanada nie tak. Wszyscy uciekają. Nasz nowy miłośnik Polski mógłby zacząć uczyć się polskiego i włączyć się do rozmowy.
@@Tomasz-r2t nie wszyscy. Byłem w zeszły poniedziałek oglądać zaćmienie. Ludzie wciąż tam są 🙂I nie zamierzają się nigdzie wynosić.
@@pawelzielinski1398 ja bym w życiu tam nie pojechał. Nawet słońce nie chce tam świecić ;-)
@@Tomasz-r2t Na szczęście nikt cię tam nie zaprasza. Nie martw się słońce znów świeci. Zaświeciło po paru minutach.
Cień księżyca jest raczej niewielki i szybko się porusza.
Totally not what I expected, thus very interesting to me. When I visit a Jewish theater in Poland it's not because it represents the culture I was raised in, but precisely because it doesn't. I guess the reason Canadians don't travel is their lack of curiosity about other cultures. Presumably, they believe they already have them in Canada. As for Polish, the best way is to practice. Use every opportunity to speak Polish. There are plenty to choose from in Poland... Spend some time (at least an hour) every day listening to Polish and speaking Polish. You'll notice a huge improvement after a few months.
Dear Michael . I am Polish if you had some void in your soul based on your Polish ancestry and you feel that living in Poland makes it better for you than that’s what you need to do. Your Polish Ancestors were abruptly uprooted from the only place they knew probably for generations.
I'm Polish and in Canada. Thinking of leaving...
That last thing what You said about Jews and Poland is very interesting. It needs separate material.
You look very distraught, Michael. Take good care of yourself. Thumbs-up from Warsaw.
That’s just how I always look. 😂
Tipical Chazar
I have Ukrainian origin. I lived and worked in Canada, as well as in Poland. In Poland, life is more comfortable and safer, as well as cheaper (food, rent, cars etc). But there is lot of xenophobia in Poland, especially in relation to Ukrainians. The locals said that "I was to blame for Volyn" and that I should "go back to Ukraine" for some reason (despite the fact that I was never going to live there).
i mean it makes sense to feel like an outsider if the first time youve been to or even perceived poland was 30+... also u come from a western country so it is just very different in many ways. and you did not grow up around post 1940s polish culture.
i think it may be a lot easier for people from ex iron curtain (especially) and south/central europe to feel at home in poland due to a similar language, vibe, mindset, architecture, shared past and cultural moments, etc.
honestly i wonder if the canadian mindset is part of what is holding you back (so to speak), i find that the liberal anglo-country "personality type" is just rather foreign, it is steadily being absorbed thru online media but...idk, i think it may be hard to connect with most people and "meet them where they are from" ig with a middle aged nyt-reader-pov? if that makes any sense. it might feel like you are some kind of foreign anthropologist, and not an everyday guy who is living through the same stuff as everyone. i think polish culture for most people is just dealing with enough bs that you know what to expect when it comes to life, so when it comes you can just deal with it😂maybe the complaining builds solidarity in that regard.
for example, traits traditionally respected in poland:
- resourcefulness (will find a way to solve any problem)
- being straightforward/no bs but knowing how to bs when needed lol
- street smarts, good at business/dealing with people
- personable, down to earth
- hospitable and willing to lend a hand
- takes care of self & home
- family oriented
despite what people say about polish people being serious or introverted (?) that is mostly to strangers, having W social navigation matters quite a bit.
of course this is traditional though and things change with every generation, or even in every family..this is just what i know
also maybe you feel a disconnect because you live in a touristy area, or a bougie area with a lot of foreigners? no clue just throwing it out there
and maybe most of your znajome are maybe other foreigners and theater people? which is nice but i dont think is super "immersive," i guess since you will find these people in every city haha, they are all kind of globalized. im not sure how often you deal with "everyday" polish people other than service employees. which ig may be hard bc of polish lanugage level, but most younger people speak english i suppose.
sorry for all the yapping lmaoo. but yeah where you are coming from, i can see why it is hard to assimilate. it's always easier if you have a point of comparison from your past.
In what way are minorities treated badly in Poland?
They are included only kind of as novelty. The value is not truly yet understood.
@@lerubenfeld I don't understand.
@@lerubenfeldthis makes no sense…
@@lerubenfeld What else would You want us to do for You and other minorities?
@@acidsuzanne4049 they need to be privileged and Poles need to have more difficult life then woke ppl feel not guilty for something they didn’t do. Unfortunately woke is a kind of mind disease. He is ok with losing his job he worked all life for cuz he is white ;) this is the lack of logic they use
As i understood. The weather in Canada were not the reason.
i think your truth is different
Have you started dreaming in Polish yet? 😊
Mam nadzieję że Pan znajdzie tu miejsce dla siebie.
Michael, Have you heard about Arts Emerson theater? It's a college ran theater in Boston that has a very diverse, international repertoire. It's mind blowing what can you see there.
theater troops from all over the world.
I’ve not. Interesting!
as trivial as it sounds... home is where your heart is.
Besides, you're a Jew, so what? It's great that you appreciate and cherish these values. making it look like you're a Jew doesn't change anything. for me you are a male man. nobody special.
Bro , stop dev aide mutch for four pieces .It could be reason of depresion .Stop thinking about past and to compare this countries. You have taken decision about move here .U do not need explain to each one about this move .This is your life and ... life is like a Ball and nobody will invite us a second time., at all ... .
real lol
my dad grew up in krakow with an old jewish man in his building (1960s), and for some reason there were some soviet jewish guys who moved to warszawa after ww2, and i know poles with jewish heritage but who dont identify as jewish
overall though, after ww2 most moved out...PRL had the smear campaign, but also poland was a poorrrrr country. in comparison USA, isreal, western europe just had better living conditions. you saw the same thing happen when poles left to western europe after joining the eu
for example, the PRL poverty became so bad that my mom had to eat soup her parents made out a local dog... she loves dogs so this traumatized her :/
also, she worked as a chemist after graduating, and to simply afford her shoes and lab coat for work, she had to save up 2 months of wages....like what
etc. also there were often shortages of items in stores, crazyyyyy lines just to get basic necessities...not very fun
Ciekawe. Jeżeli czujesz, że to twoje miejsce i się tutaj spełniasz, jesteś w domu. Nie wiem czy ktokolwiek rozumie o co w tym chodzi, jakieś kosmiczne sprawy to połączenie żydów i Polski od 1000 lat i jak widać odradza się na nowo. Ciekawe.
Poland is second to last in the most racist countries in Europe. What minorities are treated badly?
Google:
Which European countries are the most racist
There is an article from Euronews
Yes, Poles are extremely racist. Majority of people strongly dislike anyone who is different than them. It doesn't even have to go as far as skin color. Even minorities of a different faith that have been living in Poland for generations are often treated as outsiders. Sure we had a prime minister, a famous ski jumper and even more famous poet who were protestant, but I suspect that they have been accepted because most people do not know that they were/are protestants.
In every country they are racists, Poland is really trying, but we have to understand that Poland is 98% Catholics, and they want to keep that tradition, so they will not take people from other countries knowing that these people will feel isolated and will stand out. Why do we always try to force a country to be exactly the same as others in EU? WTF, don't we have a courage to say to them, excuse me didn't Poland just took 11 million Ukrainian refugees and majority stay in Poland get money for children and also work in Poland. They have assimilated to Polish society, why? because they are the same and they feel good in Poland. Now, if you look at Canada, in here we have 150 different nationalities, it's like a melting pot, wherever you go you see different people speaking different languages, Canada is a country where people from all over the world come to and seek refuge. Although now Canada is starting to look like a dictatorship then democracy and that's why expats and even Canadians without ties to Poland, leave Canada to seek refuge in Poland. So you really have to look at the bigger picture, not just repeat what someone wrote, investigate and ask why, you will get an answer & will have a bigger picture of those issues. Thank you kindly, good luck everyone
P.S I am a Polish expat, however I have lived in Canada three times longer then in Poland, so they call me Canadian with Polish roots😊
it is more like xenophobia
@@ilonacurle Poland is not 98% catholic by any stretch of imagination.
Of course we can argue what makes one a catholic, but even if we restrict the definition to people who were baptized in the catholic church as babies and never had any interaction with that church as adults that number will be much lower.
There are regions in Poland with significant orthodox Christian minority as well as protestant minority.
With recent significant immigration from Ukraine I am pretty sure than at least 10% of Polish population is orthodox (at least nominally). Probably 10-20% are not affiliated with any religion at all.
Also, most major cities in Poland has mosques. In Warsaw they have been since the 80s. There are also a couple of Tatar villages in eastern Poland where there is native Muslim population since 13. century.
Poland is not as homogenous as it might look like. Sure, more homogenous than many other EU countries, but it does not give you the right to discriminate against people of other faith of not affiliated with any religion at all.
So this strap of land between Germany and Russia is Jews Homeland can we stay as minority group?😅
Gefore I watch; you're wanted in Canada for crimes against maple syrup!
Did I guess right?!
😉
That’s right!