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Actually we call Marie Skłodowska-Curie like that because she wanted to have her maiden name too as sign she was from Poland, she even name "Polonium" one of elements she discover after Poland. And Nicolaus Copernicus is not from Germany, yes his mother's family came to Toruń from Westphalia and she had some ethnic German origin but he was born in Toruń and he declared himself a Pole and in Polish his name is Mikołaj Kopernik
Poland is a Central European or Slavic country, because the term "Eastern European" originated as pejoration (through stereotypes) that Eastern Europe is worse (poorer, less developed) than Western Europe and/or under the influence of the Soviet Union/Russia, with which we never wanted to be associated.
There is this old dad joke which explains why Poland is both geographically and culturally central Europe: One guy was travelling from Paris to Moscow and the other guy from Moscow to Paris. They both took a train and fell asleep soon after getting in. Their trains stopped in Warsaw when they woke up. They got off thinking they reached their destination.
To be specific Poland was East Europe, when Russia was Asia. But somewhere in 20'th century it was decided that Europe end on Ural and so Russia is somehow European? But people forget to update fact that literal middle of Europe is not East. And I'm talking about Berlin.
Poland is Central European country: - Geographically: according to wikipedia there are 7 points conteding for a title of "Center of Europe". All of them are near east border of Poland or further to the east. So geographically Poland is in Central Europe (if you divide Europe into west/center/east) or Western Europe (if you divide only into west/east). Some people seem to forget, that border of Europe is on Ural mountains, not on Russian border... - Culturally: Poland uses the same latin alphabet (as opposed to cyrillic alphabet used in Eastern Europe). It has the same religion (roman-catholic, as opposed to mainly greek-catholic east). Because of that they share the same main holidays, that are on the same dates (greek-catholic have offset of about 2 weeks). Polish language (on par with Czech and Slovak) has the biggest influence of roman languages (compared to eastern slavic languages). Some people wrongly refer to Poland as "Eastern European" either because of (unwilling) incorporation into Eastern Block or pejorative stereotype of poor country (they seem to ignore, that for 50 years after WWII development was severely hampered by soviet ideas and draining most resources to ussr, while western germany was showered with American dollars). ...or because they are stare komuchy, who think, that communism was better.
Wi-fi password made me rolling because it is so true. If I worked as a web administrator in a different country I would put random polish words as passwords.
Some people think Poland is on the east because for nearly 50 years there was east, west and nothing between. Poland was on the eastern side. Geographically if you'll draw a line right between Ural Mountains and Lisbon meridians it would go somewhere between Łódź and Warsaw. Politically and economically, it's also between west (like Germany or Scandinavia) and east(Russia, Belarus, Ukraine) and quickly moving west. So yes, IMO it's central, not east.
Western Europe and eastern Europe are ideology terms not geography, All countries that were in the Eastern block are considered eastern European All countries that weren't in eastern block are western Europe That's why Greece is considered western despite being southern Europe geographically
@@grandetristesse3370 but you can't classify now using historical metrics. Poland was in eastern block for only 40+ years and it ended 30+ years ago. It's like saying Poland is a southern colony of Sweden just because Sweden controlled PLC for a short period. If you make a history lesson about the cold war, communism etc. you could call Poland and Czechoslovakia eastern European. But without such context it's just wrong.
I just wanted to say that the North of Poland is flat UNTIL YOU HOP ON A BIKE. I moved from Poznań to Wast Pomerania and let me tell you... The amount of hills we have here is crazy, I hated riding a bike for my first two years here but I've kind of gotten used to it since then and now I don't mind it THAT much and also my legs are crazy strong xD
@rufuzsn943 - Nope. The origin of a monarch does not determine if a country is a colony of other country. Poland had kings from Lithuania, Hungary, and even from France, but it never was Lithuanian, Hungarian, or French colony.
My friend from Norway once said that if you want to get to know the true face, soul and tradition of Poles, you have to spend two days in Poland with a traditional Polish family... All Saints' Day on November 1 and Christmas Eve...
1:19 it's very simple - check on the map where Poland is located in Europe. You can also check where the center of Europe is and draw your own conclusions based on this knowledge
"Załatwić" is why world loves Polish workers. You have a task that is impossible to complete, with deadline that can't by hit ? A Polish worker says "Załatwie to". And it is done. You dont know how but the task was completed correctly and precisely up to specification even as anyone else asked about this would say - can't be done.
1:15 be it Poland, Ukraine or Belarus, I would say that we Slavs have many common cuisine dishes, so talking about "Eastern European flavours" doesn't necessarily mean that you are in the Eastern Europe 😉
11:49 Fun fact(and its weird thry didmt mention this): The first ever non-Italian pope was Pope Jan Pawel the 2nd and he was Polish(his name was Karol Wojtyla)
They didn't mention this because it's not true, he was first non Italian one in couple hundreds years, but not in history, I mean the first pope was St Peter who for sure wasn't Italian, many popes were from Middle East, modern day Spain and France or Balkans (I think 16 popes came from modern day territory of Serbia)
Some easternmost parts of Poland can be considered eastern Europe, but most of poland is central european. Especially since polish territory today consists of only the western parts of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (less than a third of former territory).
Western and eastern Europe are ideology terms not geography. All countries that were in the Soviet eastern block = eastern Europe All countries that were not in the Soviet eastern block = western Europe That's why Greece is considered western Europe despite being in the South of Europe.
The reason for all the scientists, artists etc is the evolution of the nobles' class. Due to the partitions of Poland in the 19th century and social changes (i.e. the richest nobles becoming aristocrats and the poorest losing their noble status) they created a new social class called the "inteligencja" (intelligentsia in English). What people did was promoting education as a way to influence the Polish society and its culture within the larger states of the occupants. That led to people sending their sons and daughters to schools in the hope they'll make positive changes in the future for Poland's good. For example, Ignacy Łukasiewicz (the one that invented the kerosene lamp and the oil industry as such) used the profits to pave the roads in Galicia. There was even the Flying University that clandestinely educated women in the Russian occupied part (Maria Skłodowska-Curie being one of the most famous students). Back in the 1990s when Americans began to move to Poland they couldn't understand why a rich businessman isn't as respected by the society as a poor doctor or teacher. That's because the latter were members of the intelligentsia class while the former was not.
Poland is a country in Central Europe, only certain people who lack knowledge confuse the continent with the European Union. When it comes to the EU, Poland is its eastern country, and when it comes to the continent, it is in the center because the continent extends to Russia. It's just that morons confuse these concepts.
Well - central or eastern. It depends on if we talk about politics or culture. And what about culture. It's mostly dictated by people thinking "Eastern Europe = Russia" and Poles have... (war flashbacks meme) ... a bad history with Russia. It's like saying to an Irish person "Oh, It's Great Britain!".
Western and eastern Europe are ideology terms. All countries that were in Soviet eastern block = eastern European All countries that weren't in eastern block = western Europe That's why Greece is considered western despite being geographically southern
@@grandetristesse3370 Well... Tzarist Russia was not much better. Sure - Prussia and later Germany were bad as well. But currently, Germany BEHAVES. It's hard to say that about Russia.
4:07 It's not necessarilly true - Poland didn't invested in colonisation of the world too much, but collony in Gambia was taken over by force by some colonial empire (sorry, can't remember which one it was - Dutch, British or French), moreover the tribes there weren't met with hostility form Poles, weren't forced into slavery and Poles just traded goods with them
just FYI name day is more popular with older people, though younger ones celebrate it as well (i'd say 40%-60% people pre 60 years old celebrate it, while it's 80+% for 60+ people)
1:10 if we take into account only the geographical location of poland, then poland is in western europe. By European regions, Poland is located in Central Europe. people use the term “eastern europe” in the context of the post-communist european countries. this term is confused with geography
It depends on what you mean, when you want to use the term "eastern" or "central". We don't want to be described as eastern, because of stereotypes that follows it. Also geographically, it is quite central 😉 but if you mean culture, the way our minds works, traditions etc, we are more like eastern.
Not true. Many cultural aspects are western (Latin alphabet vs. cyrylic, Roman catholic vs. Greek catholic, Gregorian calendar vs. Julian calendar etc.). Culturally we're a mix of east and west.
Fun fact for you since you are Asian. Our national hero Józef Piłsudski had a brother, Bronisław, who went to Japan - Hokkaido and studied the culture of the nomadic Ainu people and contributed greatly in preserving the culture of those people that technically dont exist anymore. There is even a sculpture of him at the Ainu museum on Hokkaido. And this transitions into another interesting fun fact - there is a Japanese anime called Golden Kamuy and one of the main characters, an Ainu child, is half Polish half Ainu. Another interesting fact losely related to Bronisław Piłsudski - In 1904, well-known Japanese writer Nitobe Inazō dedicated his book Bushido: The Soul of Japan to the Polish nation, indicating that it was a "samurai" nation. Oh and btw Hokkaido is in modern day "little Poland" - most Polish people that make the decision to emigrate to Japan settle down on Hokkaido, because according to the Polish immigrants the people that live on Hokkaido resemble very much Polish people.
You may not know but plenty of world inventors, discoverers, scientists, engineers and constructionist where born in Poland. Some of them: * Krzysztof Kolumb (Cristopher Columbus) discoverer of America * Mieczysław Bekker invented Apollo's 17th space rover, * Józef Bożek - inventor of plenty machines (including the firs car) and limb prostheses * Rudolf Modrzejewski (son of famous polish actress, Helena Modrzejewska) constructor of several dozen bridges in America (including Benjamin Franklin Bridge on Delaware River or Ambassador Bridge on Detroit River with the longest bridge spans) * Hilary Koprowski - discoverer of polio vaccine * Ignacy Łukasiewicz inventor of oil lamp (best regards from The City of Lights in Poland called Gorlice) * Henryk Magnuski - inventor of walkie-talkie * Józef Hofmann - inventor of car windshield wipers * Adam Jan Kanty Ostaszewski - constructor of plenty models of airplains And many more
Świetna reakcja! Cieszę się, że Amerykanie poznają Polskę i jej bogatą kulturę. To wideo dostarcza wielu ciekawych informacji o naszym kraju. Fajnie widzieć, jak różnorodna jest Polska! Mam nadzieję, że więcej osób zainteresuje się naszą historią i tradycjami. 👍😊
folx, if you read the wikipedia entrance about the center of europe then you could easily see that almost each countries claimed to be the center (even france, sweden, russia etc.). most also permanently forget that the EU/Europa has also many oversea Islands and territories. One could also say that the center of Europe is somewhere in the ocean. Depending on the bias, sometimes Greenland is forgotten, sometimes the Greek Islands and so on. all of that is pointless. realistically and kind of all time (also for archaeology) is central europe/mitteleuropa just Germany, Benelux, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czech, Slovacia, Hungary and so on (for some contexts one could also include France but in general France has some southern/southern socialist aspects which is also why France is always less wealthy than the western-central core - and felt also often rather representative for the poorer southern dept countries while Germany represented rather the wealthy parts. Anyway, the classic Central European/Mitteleuropa view as mentioned makes most sense for most criterions, from culture to architecture, from history to music tastes, from urban planning to the general mentality, from bread/milk/butter regions to climate zones, from 10000 years ago till today ...
Poland is a beautiful country with a rich history that we can be proud of - but unfortunately we often do not appreciate it ourselves. Poles are like siblings who fight among themselves, but when someone from outside threatens one of us, we always support each other. greetings from Silesia!
From what I understand geographically center of europe is in poland but culturally poland belongs to eastern countries. 6:17 At first I was just confused but then I realized what it was and almost spit my water. I wanted to make comment laughing about how wrong it was but then I decided to google the name just in case and turns out vistula is latin name of this river. In polish it's called wisła. "wis" at the beginning you pronounce just as he did. The closest thing in english I can think of that would sound like "ła" would "ua" with "u" like in june and "a" like in cat.
Not true. Many cultural aspects are western (Latin alphabet vs. cyrylic, Roman catholic vs. Greek catholic, Gregorian calendar vs. Julian calendar etc.). Culturally we're a mix of east and west.
I am 45 years old and I live in Dublin from last 20 years. I am from city called Siedlce in east Poland. I was in secondary school and college. I left my hometown Siedlce in August 2004 just right after college. I am simply man. But i like history and 📚 books..... I read a lot.... 😊 966 Poland started as a country. First Prince of Poland was a Mysterious Prince. His name was Mieszko and nobody really knows who he was.... We know he was smart, intelligent, brave and brutal.... He was probably a Slavic..... But..... Not for sure.... All his 3 daughters got married with vikings, all of them had a Viking names.... Vikings never attacked Poland and they was so close....?? Baltic sea is a small Sea.... One letter ✉️ left from his life called Dagome Judex and Dago it was a Viking name.... Mieszko our first hero was hiring Vikings in his little army 🪖....we know that.... Our 🥇 hero was in very close relations with vikings or simply.......he was a Viking himself..... There is nothing for sure but.... Mieszko passed away in 992. That's how history of Poland is starting from Mysterious Prince Mieszko..... His son Boleslaw was a first King 👑 of Poland in 1025. Kind regards. Marcin. Polish Emigrant in Ireland.
Also in poland is land called jura keakowsko częstohowska and ther is many dinosours bones and other fossils I found one nautilus fossils and poland hew even their own dinosour it'd called some wawelski smok means dragon
Eastern and western Europe are ideology terms not geography, all countries that were in the Easter block are eastern Europe and all countries that weren't in it are western Europe that's why Greece is considered western despite being southern European geographically
Geography, religion, developnet and geopoliticalwise, modern Poland is a best of both worlds split. However, geigraphical canter of europe is in lithuania (yes there's a giant country called russia). Religionwise its the easternmost roman-catholic country, so western christianity. Poland is split Poland A and Poland B, yet is a rich yet still developing country. Geopolitically ofc we have NATO bases to fend off Russia and Belarus, so obviously.
It's pretty simple: we can say we're eastern, you can't say it. Joke, but the thing is, that Eastern Europe is not simply a geographical term (Actually, this division hasn't existed until xxth century). It's a term that carries with itself all the connotations with Eastern Bloc, Russian sphere of influence, poverty, backwardness, grey, sad, boring world with nothing to see or do. You know best that Poland doesn't suit that description anymore.
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Polska j pierwsza kopalnia ropy naftowej była w Polsce , przetważanie na nafte plastik też wyszło z polski . lampa naftowa , pierwsza kamizelka kuloodporna kewlar ua-cam.com/video/C_-FvVt6p2M/v-deo.html
Can people stop speaking about kiełbasa as a different type of sousage? Kiełbasa directly translates to "sousage". It's like saying "fromage cheese". "Kiełbasa sousage" transaletes to "sousage sousage". The same with "Krakow" (that's how they called it in the video) it's basicly a "sousage from cracow".
Not true. Many cultural aspects are western (Latin alphabet vs. cyrylic, Roman catholic vs. Greek catholic, Gregorian calendar vs. Julian calendar etc.). Culturally we're a mix of east and west.
i usually say eastern because thats simply what ive learned as a Polish person but i def do get why people dont like it idk i dont rlly care nor mind lol
Please react to Sanah i Igor Herbut "Mamo tyś płakała" It is such an emotional song and igor has a beautiful voice. On video when you react to "orkiestra co mi panie dasz?" when Igor start sing you say that he have very good voice
nie bedzeisz wiedzaił co to znaczzy "polak węgier dwa bratanki" jak nie pojedziez na węgry jako polak , do dziś utrzymujemy znajomości z podróży na chorwacje i to są najlepśi z moich lepszych znajomych
I know you like to react to polish music. Pls react to 2 versions of Moja i Twoja Nadzieja. One had premiere today and one on 1997 both songs were released for charity to collect money to support people in flood crisis.
Geographically Poland is central Europe. Most people forget or just don't know that some chunk of Russia is still in Europe, all the way to the Ural mountains. Simple.
So the eastern vs central european debate is more about the concept of deviding europe on two sides in which eastern side is bad, poor, literally worse people and western side is enlighted and great. the concept of deviding europe is strictly immaginary as politically, geographically and sociologically it doesn't makes any sense to put for example baltic christian country of estonia to the same shelf as mediterranean islamic country of albania. they don't share any culture, religion, language or even alphabet. Most importantly the concept was created when western countries like third reich experimented with eugenica to determine and justify subjugation of "subhumans".
Niepoprawny have More Noble prices but during the soviet era they cut of polish with Jewish origin. And some how we still do not appreciate this people, who were rise and educated in Poland!
Kerosene is jet fuel, yes the Poles were first to extract oil from the ground - to get fuel for lamps at the hospital to make nighttime opertions possible.
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Yup. This one is quite accurate. What is rare on internet.
Actually we call Marie Skłodowska-Curie like that because she wanted to have her maiden name too as sign she was from Poland, she even name "Polonium" one of elements she discover after Poland. And Nicolaus Copernicus is not from Germany, yes his mother's family came to Toruń from Westphalia and she had some ethnic German origin but he was born in Toruń and he declared himself a Pole and in Polish his name is Mikołaj Kopernik
Poland is a Central European or Slavic country, because the term "Eastern European" originated as pejoration (through stereotypes) that Eastern Europe is worse (poorer, less developed) than Western Europe and/or under the influence of the Soviet Union/Russia, with which we never wanted to be associated.
There is this old dad joke which explains why Poland is both geographically and culturally central Europe:
One guy was travelling from Paris to Moscow and the other guy from Moscow to Paris. They both took a train and fell asleep soon after getting in. Their trains stopped in Warsaw when they woke up. They got off thinking they reached their destination.
It's even older. It's from XIXth century german unis that tried to prove that Germans should colonise those inferior lands
To be specific Poland was East Europe, when Russia was Asia.
But somewhere in 20'th century it was decided that Europe end on Ural and so Russia is somehow European? But people forget to update fact that literal middle of Europe is not East. And I'm talking about Berlin.
I don't need to comment thanks to your comment.
geographically we are in eastern europe-like it or not
"Work hard. Don't be a dick. Respect rules. And you're Polish!" best quote ever, agreed :D
He see through the charade...
when did he says that ? i've missed it 😅
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"Don't be a dick, respect the rules". Guys, he figured us out...
Poland is Central European country:
- Geographically: according to wikipedia there are 7 points conteding for a title of "Center of Europe". All of them are near east border of Poland or further to the east. So geographically Poland is in Central Europe (if you divide Europe into west/center/east) or Western Europe (if you divide only into west/east). Some people seem to forget, that border of Europe is on Ural mountains, not on Russian border...
- Culturally: Poland uses the same latin alphabet (as opposed to cyrillic alphabet used in Eastern Europe). It has the same religion (roman-catholic, as opposed to mainly greek-catholic east). Because of that they share the same main holidays, that are on the same dates (greek-catholic have offset of about 2 weeks). Polish language (on par with Czech and Slovak) has the biggest influence of roman languages (compared to eastern slavic languages).
Some people wrongly refer to Poland as "Eastern European" either because of (unwilling) incorporation into Eastern Block or pejorative stereotype of poor country (they seem to ignore, that for 50 years after WWII development was severely hampered by soviet ideas and draining most resources to ussr, while western germany was showered with American dollars).
...or because they are stare komuchy, who think, that communism was better.
Geograficznie Europa kończy się na górach Uralu,ale geopolitycznie na Polsce i krajach Bałtyckich,a może niedługo na Ukrainie.
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Wi-fi password made me rolling because it is so true. If I worked as a web administrator in a different country I would put random polish words as passwords.
Some people think Poland is on the east because for nearly 50 years there was east, west and nothing between. Poland was on the eastern side. Geographically if you'll draw a line right between Ural Mountains and Lisbon meridians it would go somewhere between Łódź and Warsaw. Politically and economically, it's also between west (like Germany or Scandinavia) and east(Russia, Belarus, Ukraine) and quickly moving west. So yes, IMO it's central, not east.
Western Europe and eastern Europe are ideology terms not geography,
All countries that were in the Eastern block are considered eastern European
All countries that weren't in eastern block are western Europe
That's why Greece is considered western despite being southern Europe geographically
@@grandetristesse3370 You are wrong in everything you said, geography exists
And Greece is Southern European, not Western
@@grandetristesse3370 but you can't classify now using historical metrics. Poland was in eastern block for only 40+ years and it ended 30+ years ago. It's like saying Poland is a southern colony of Sweden just because Sweden controlled PLC for a short period. If you make a history lesson about the cold war, communism etc. you could call Poland and Czechoslovakia eastern European. But without such context it's just wrong.
I just wanted to say that the North of Poland is flat UNTIL YOU HOP ON A BIKE. I moved from Poznań to Wast Pomerania and let me tell you... The amount of hills we have here is crazy, I hated riding a bike for my first two years here but I've kind of gotten used to it since then and now I don't mind it THAT much and also my legs are crazy strong xD
If you want to see one of the most amazing place in Poland, come to rafting on the Dunajec river in Pieniny mountains!! The best ❤
You'd love All Saints Day.
its on the 1st of November (or a day or two later if you dont like crowds) just take a walk to a bigger cementery :)
Polish nobleman Maurycy Beniowski was king of Madagascar for few years and I think that can be also counted as polish colony
This never was officially recognized.
@rufuzsn943 - Nope. The origin of a monarch does not determine if a country is a colony of other country. Poland had kings from Lithuania, Hungary, and even from France, but it never was Lithuanian, Hungarian, or French colony.
My friend from Norway once said that if you want to get to know the true face, soul and tradition of Poles, you have to spend two days in Poland with a traditional Polish family... All Saints' Day on November 1 and Christmas Eve...
1:19 it's very simple - check on the map where Poland is located in Europe. You can also check where the center of Europe is and draw your own conclusions based on this knowledge
"Załatwić" is why world loves Polish workers. You have a task that is impossible to complete, with deadline that can't by hit ? A Polish worker says "Załatwie to". And it is done. You dont know how but the task was completed correctly and precisely up to specification even as anyone else asked about this would say - can't be done.
I appreciate your videos, hugs from Poland!
1:15 be it Poland, Ukraine or Belarus, I would say that we Slavs have many common cuisine dishes, so talking about "Eastern European flavours" doesn't necessarily mean that you are in the Eastern Europe 😉
11:49 Fun fact(and its weird thry didmt mention this): The first ever non-Italian pope was Pope Jan Pawel the 2nd and he was Polish(his name was Karol Wojtyla)
They didn't mention this because it's not true, he was first non Italian one in couple hundreds years, but not in history, I mean the first pope was St Peter who for sure wasn't Italian, many popes were from Middle East, modern day Spain and France or Balkans (I think 16 popes came from modern day territory of Serbia)
Saint Peter was the first pope and he wasn't Italian 🤦♂️
Some easternmost parts of Poland can be considered eastern Europe, but most of poland is central european. Especially since polish territory today consists of only the western parts of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (less than a third of former territory).
Western and eastern Europe are ideology terms not geography.
All countries that were in the Soviet eastern block = eastern Europe
All countries that were not in the Soviet eastern block = western Europe
That's why Greece is considered western Europe despite being in the South of Europe.
actually, all of poland is central europe, and western by culture. it extends into lithuania and western ukraine
Jakub Żytecki mentioned!!!! Gonna see him live 2nd time in Krakow in December.
The reason for all the scientists, artists etc is the evolution of the nobles' class. Due to the partitions of Poland in the 19th century and social changes (i.e. the richest nobles becoming aristocrats and the poorest losing their noble status) they created a new social class called the "inteligencja" (intelligentsia in English). What people did was promoting education as a way to influence the Polish society and its culture within the larger states of the occupants. That led to people sending their sons and daughters to schools in the hope they'll make positive changes in the future for Poland's good. For example, Ignacy Łukasiewicz (the one that invented the kerosene lamp and the oil industry as such) used the profits to pave the roads in Galicia. There was even the Flying University that clandestinely educated women in the Russian occupied part (Maria Skłodowska-Curie being one of the most famous students). Back in the 1990s when Americans began to move to Poland they couldn't understand why a rich businessman isn't as respected by the society as a poor doctor or teacher. That's because the latter were members of the intelligentsia class while the former was not.
Poland is a country in Central Europe, only certain people who lack knowledge confuse the continent with the European Union. When it comes to the EU, Poland is its eastern country, and when it comes to the continent, it is in the center because the continent extends to Russia. It's just that morons confuse these concepts.
Geography Now is a great Channel
You have a low bar
2:24 Hey thats not right! We have island Wolin!
Well - central or eastern. It depends on if we talk about politics or culture. And what about culture. It's mostly dictated by people thinking "Eastern Europe = Russia" and Poles have... (war flashbacks meme) ... a bad history with Russia. It's like saying to an Irish person "Oh, It's Great Britain!".
Western and eastern Europe are ideology terms.
All countries that were in Soviet eastern block = eastern European
All countries that weren't in eastern block = western Europe
That's why Greece is considered western despite being geographically southern
But poles don't seem to have those flashbacks with Germany which caused 2 of the most major wars in polish history...
Not a bad I history with Russia.
A bad history with the Soviet Union and the 3rd Reich
@@grandetristesse3370 Well... Tzarist Russia was not much better. Sure - Prussia and later Germany were bad as well. But currently, Germany BEHAVES. It's hard to say that about Russia.
then mixed Mazovia and Mazuria..
The name Mazuria originated from Mazovia, so at least linguistically they got it right. ;)
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Puck is pronounced "Putzk"
Also, Beskidy is further divided into Tatry in the west and Bieszczady in the east.
4:07 It's not necessarilly true - Poland didn't invested in colonisation of the world too much, but collony in Gambia was taken over by force by some colonial empire (sorry, can't remember which one it was - Dutch, British or French), moreover the tribes there weren't met with hostility form Poles, weren't forced into slavery and Poles just traded goods with them
Good job guys! ❤ Greetings from Poland😜
well done Wes and Geography Now!
Gdańsk (68,300 ha) is the largest city in Poland. Warsaw (51,720 ha). Warsaw is the most populated city.
I like this geo episode
just FYI name day is more popular with older people, though younger ones celebrate it as well (i'd say 40%-60% people pre 60 years old celebrate it, while it's 80+% for 60+ people)
1:10 if we take into account only the geographical location of poland, then poland is in western europe. By European regions, Poland is located in Central Europe.
people use the term “eastern europe” in the context of the post-communist european countries. this term is confused with geography
Strange that they omitted Odra river. Only Noteć, Warta i Wisła was shown.
Kaliningrad = Królewiec i nie jest ruski (tfu) tylko Czeski!
jestem za oddaniem królewca czechom tylko dlatego że jest to najzabawniejsza opcja xD
niech będzie czeski i niech zrobią Beer Stream 1 z odejściem na pomorze proszę
Poland tfu 💩🚽
Rosja tak bardzo upokorzyła Polskę, myślę, że dlatego wszyscy jesteście nadal zgorzknieni
Pies z Rosji i Niemiec spacerował po Polsce przez co najmniej 500 lat
It depends on what you mean, when you want to use the term "eastern" or "central". We don't want to be described as eastern, because of stereotypes that follows it. Also geographically, it is quite central 😉 but if you mean culture, the way our minds works, traditions etc, we are more like eastern.
Not true. Many cultural aspects are western (Latin alphabet vs. cyrylic, Roman catholic vs. Greek catholic, Gregorian calendar vs. Julian calendar etc.). Culturally we're a mix of east and west.
13:28 That however didn't stop the Vasa nor Wettin (Saxon) dynasties kings from managing to put their sons on the throne.
Fun fact for you since you are Asian.
Our national hero Józef Piłsudski had a brother, Bronisław, who went to Japan - Hokkaido and studied the culture of the nomadic Ainu people and contributed greatly in preserving the culture of those people that technically dont exist anymore. There is even a sculpture of him at the Ainu museum on Hokkaido. And this transitions into another interesting fun fact - there is a Japanese anime called Golden Kamuy and one of the main characters, an Ainu child, is half Polish half Ainu. Another interesting fact losely related to Bronisław Piłsudski - In 1904, well-known Japanese writer Nitobe Inazō dedicated his book Bushido: The Soul of Japan to the Polish nation, indicating that it was a "samurai" nation. Oh and btw Hokkaido is in modern day "little Poland" - most Polish people that make the decision to emigrate to Japan settle down on Hokkaido, because according to the Polish immigrants the people that live on Hokkaido resemble very much Polish people.
You may not know but plenty of world inventors, discoverers, scientists, engineers and constructionist where born in Poland.
Some of them:
* Krzysztof Kolumb (Cristopher Columbus) discoverer of America
* Mieczysław Bekker invented Apollo's 17th space rover,
* Józef Bożek - inventor of plenty machines (including the firs car) and limb prostheses
* Rudolf Modrzejewski (son of famous polish actress, Helena Modrzejewska) constructor of several dozen bridges in America (including Benjamin Franklin Bridge on Delaware River or Ambassador Bridge on Detroit River with the longest bridge spans)
* Hilary Koprowski - discoverer of polio vaccine
* Ignacy Łukasiewicz inventor of oil lamp (best regards from The City of Lights in Poland called Gorlice)
* Henryk Magnuski - inventor of walkie-talkie
* Józef Hofmann - inventor of car windshield wipers
* Adam Jan Kanty Ostaszewski - constructor of plenty models of airplains
And many more
Świetna reakcja! Cieszę się, że Amerykanie poznają Polskę i jej bogatą kulturę. To wideo dostarcza wielu ciekawych informacji o naszym kraju. Fajnie widzieć, jak różnorodna jest Polska! Mam nadzieję, że więcej osób zainteresuje się naszą historią i tradycjami. 👍😊
On the map of Europa border east is on Mountains URAL.Can You believe it?
folx, if you read the wikipedia entrance about the center of europe then you could easily see that almost each countries claimed to be the center (even france, sweden, russia etc.). most also permanently forget that the EU/Europa has also many oversea Islands and territories. One could also say that the center of Europe is somewhere in the ocean. Depending on the bias, sometimes Greenland is forgotten, sometimes the Greek Islands and so on. all of that is pointless. realistically and kind of all time (also for archaeology) is central europe/mitteleuropa just Germany, Benelux, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czech, Slovacia, Hungary and so on (for some contexts one could also include France but in general France has some southern/southern socialist aspects which is also why France is always less wealthy than the western-central core - and felt also often rather representative for the poorer southern dept countries while Germany represented rather the wealthy parts. Anyway, the classic Central European/Mitteleuropa view as mentioned makes most sense for most criterions, from culture to architecture, from history to music tastes, from urban planning to the general mentality, from bread/milk/butter regions to climate zones, from 10000 years ago till today ...
Poland is a beautiful country with a rich history that we can be proud of - but unfortunately we often do not appreciate it ourselves. Poles are like siblings who fight among themselves, but when someone from outside threatens one of us, we always support each other.
greetings from Silesia!
Great Video Wes, would you be interested to do a simple video about their politics ( I know!) but would be interested to know some basic stuff.
Actually, one of better videos about Poland. (Geography Explained)
From what I understand geographically center of europe is in poland but culturally poland belongs to eastern countries.
6:17 At first I was just confused but then I realized what it was and almost spit my water. I wanted to make comment laughing about how wrong it was but then I decided to google the name just in case and turns out vistula is latin name of this river. In polish it's called wisła. "wis" at the beginning you pronounce just as he did. The closest thing in english I can think of that would sound like "ła" would "ua" with "u" like in june and "a" like in cat.
Not true. Many cultural aspects are western (Latin alphabet vs. cyrylic, Roman catholic vs. Greek catholic, Gregorian calendar vs. Julian calendar etc.). Culturally we're a mix of east and west.
Keep working on yourself ;) PL !
funnily enough, "załatwić" is also a more family friendly way to say "kill".
i read somewhere that the trees are like that because they were trampled by tanks and stuff. Not sure if true
I am 45 years old and I live in Dublin from last 20 years. I am from city called Siedlce in east Poland. I was in secondary school and college. I left my hometown Siedlce in August 2004 just right after college. I am simply man. But i like history and 📚 books..... I read a lot.... 😊 966 Poland started as a country. First Prince of Poland was a Mysterious Prince. His name was Mieszko and nobody really knows who he was.... We know he was smart, intelligent, brave and brutal.... He was probably a Slavic..... But..... Not for sure.... All his 3 daughters got married with vikings, all of them had a Viking names.... Vikings never attacked Poland and they was so close....?? Baltic sea is a small Sea.... One letter ✉️ left from his life called Dagome Judex and Dago it was a Viking name.... Mieszko our first hero was hiring Vikings in his little army 🪖....we know that.... Our 🥇 hero was in very close relations with vikings or simply.......he was a Viking himself..... There is nothing for sure but.... Mieszko passed away in 992. That's how history of Poland is starting from Mysterious Prince Mieszko..... His son Boleslaw was a first King 👑 of Poland in 1025. Kind regards. Marcin. Polish Emigrant in Ireland.
I live in Krakow and I'm here right now
I feel like Poland is just a serious country that is really silly at the same time idk why
This is accurate AF lmao
Where is Wrocław?
Szczerze to mało nas to interesuje czy jesteśmy centralnymi czy wschodnimi europejczykami, po prostu uwielbiamy się czepiać wszystkiego xD
Może ty nie wrzucaj wszystkich do swojego worka
Also in poland is land called jura keakowsko częstohowska and ther is many dinosours bones and other fossils I found one nautilus fossils and poland hew even their own dinosour it'd called some wawelski smok means dragon
Poland is also one of the best volleyball teams, which is not mentioned in the film
Seriously?
Yes, thank you! And we have plenty talented athletics and olympic champions, skijumpers and amazing women football players
4:28 "You say what? The space between these two buildings is too small to do anything with it? Just hold my beer and watch!"
- fake quote btw.
Geography. Central central central Europ.
Even if Poland isn't eastern European then it's not western Europe Ethier so ¯\🙄/¯
Eastern European = central European
No difference
Eastern and western Europe are ideology terms not geography, all countries that were in the Easter block are eastern Europe and all countries that weren't in it are western Europe that's why Greece is considered western despite being southern European geographically
Respect neighbors?!? After all, Poles must have everything better than their neighbors, this is Poland's golden rule
Geography, religion, developnet and geopoliticalwise, modern Poland is a best of both worlds split. However, geigraphical canter of europe is in lithuania (yes there's a giant country called russia). Religionwise its the easternmost roman-catholic country, so western christianity. Poland is split Poland A and Poland B, yet is a rich yet still developing country. Geopolitically ofc we have NATO bases to fend off Russia and Belarus, so obviously.
It's pretty simple: we can say we're eastern, you can't say it.
Joke, but the thing is, that Eastern Europe is not simply a geographical term (Actually, this division hasn't existed until xxth century). It's a term that carries with itself all the connotations with Eastern Bloc, Russian sphere of influence, poverty, backwardness, grey, sad, boring world with nothing to see or do. You know best that Poland doesn't suit that description anymore.
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Theres some polish words!😘🇵🇱
Cat-kot
Dog-pies
House/home-dom
Reading-czytać
Ć is mean like c and i
Ź like z and i
Ż like... Hmm.. like there i don't know lol
Ś like s and i
Ą like O
Ę like EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"‚
Ń like n and i
Horse-koń
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It depends warszafka and pis voters are Eastern European, however Silesia Wielkopolska Wrocław Poznan even Krakow and PO voters are central european
I love Polish food obviously, I'm Polish 😉 But I also love Asian food. My English husband calls me "noodle head "🤣
Polska j
pierwsza kopalnia ropy naftowej była w Polsce , przetważanie na nafte plastik też wyszło z polski . lampa naftowa ,
pierwsza kamizelka kuloodporna kewlar
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Can people stop speaking about kiełbasa as a different type of sousage? Kiełbasa directly translates to "sousage". It's like saying "fromage cheese". "Kiełbasa sousage" transaletes to "sousage sousage". The same with "Krakow" (that's how they called it in the video) it's basicly a "sousage from cracow".
They didn't talk about first women to get nobel and first women to have 2 nobels, Maria Skłodowska Kirii
That Polish guy looks like Baskovich from Wolfenstein game
bit late to reply but im Polish and what I like to think is that Poland is geographically a central europe country but culturally eastern
Not true. Many cultural aspects are western (Latin alphabet vs. cyrylic, Roman catholic vs. Greek catholic, Gregorian calendar vs. Julian calendar etc.). Culturally we're a mix of east and west.
i usually say eastern because thats simply what ive learned as a Polish person but i def do get why people dont like it idk i dont rlly care nor mind lol
everytime when i hear that Poland was never surrended and never colab with nazis make me cry
Please react to Sanah i Igor Herbut "Mamo tyś płakała"
It is such an emotional song and igor has a beautiful voice. On video when you react to "orkiestra co mi panie dasz?" when Igor start sing you say that he have very good voice
And Asia????
nie bedzeisz wiedzaił co to znaczzy "polak węgier dwa bratanki" jak nie pojedziez na węgry jako polak , do dziś utrzymujemy znajomości z podróży na chorwacje i to są najlepśi z moich lepszych znajomych
React to how to read polish or something
I know you like to react to polish music. Pls react to 2 versions of Moja i Twoja Nadzieja. One had premiere today and one on 1997 both songs were released for charity to collect money to support people in flood crisis.
I am from Poland
I want our country to be as you said it is
Geographically Poland is central Europe. Most people forget or just don't know that some chunk of Russia is still in Europe, all the way to the Ural mountains.
Simple.
We are in Polish europe 😎
Środkowa Europa i kropka!!!🎃
So the eastern vs central european debate is more about the concept of deviding europe on two sides in which eastern side is bad, poor, literally worse people and western side is enlighted and great.
the concept of deviding europe is strictly immaginary as politically, geographically and sociologically it doesn't makes any sense to put for example baltic christian country of estonia to the same shelf as mediterranean islamic country of albania. they don't share any culture, religion, language or even alphabet. Most importantly the concept was created when western countries like third reich experimented with eugenica to determine and justify subjugation of "subhumans".
The Sudetes are not part of the Carpathians.
Niepoprawny have More Noble prices but during the soviet era they cut of polish with Jewish origin. And some how we still do not appreciate this people, who were rise and educated in Poland!
Now we more frequently use ogarniać instead of załatwiać
I'm Cassubian ❤
~12m You gonna play this card - I always will
as polish, no... but yes
host lowkey looks like you bruh
I can see that
one thing I can"t agree with is we are friends with Ukrainians, but I can confirm we love Hungarians
As for now, Wrocław is third largest, not Łódź
Poland has the oldest written document they make vodka, sooo.... We are the first civilized nation to make vodka.
Kerosene is jet fuel, yes the Poles were first to extract oil from the ground - to get fuel for lamps at the hospital to make nighttime opertions possible.
smoke with little to no tar in it... unlike the traditional lamps
98% of a city called Jasło was destroyed during WW II
its not Vistula its Wisła
KASZUBIA MENTIONED
18:09 Wajda and Holland are jews actually
never talk about this stuff with:
men: his salary
women: their age
Poles: Politics