Poles very often like to complain and talk shit about their country, but only among themselves. Don't you dare offend Poland, if you are a foreigner. They would defend their country with all they've got.
I can't wait to go to Poland and see where my mother-in-law was born. I was in a thrift store yesterday here in the states and my novice Polish ear picked up some of the language. A group of babci were shopping and talking to one another. I was so excited but never got up the nerve to say dzien dobry. I did stalk them a little and was so happy to realize I could recognize about half of what they were saying after about 2 years of study. Maybe after another year I'll be able to have a simple conversation. 😅
@@aprilcoburn5214 Babcie, many grandmothers ;) our grammar is difficult even for us Polish plp ;) many Polish plp dont speak with proper grammar, because its so difficult, BUT on the other way, is way superrior than most of the language on the world, with conveying information with the least amount of words(many nations think that we speak very fast), for example word "zrobiła" this one word give you information about sex, time and action, this word means "She did " or "She did it" ;)
haha, chyba zartujesz, mors. Polak podejdzie do turysty w Polsce jak zobaczy ze mu sie podoba, i zacznie mu tlumaczyc, ze sie myli, ze Polska to beznadziejny kraj. MOWIE Z DOSWIADCZENIA. ten caly film jest o tym, ze facet z zagranicy broni Polski przed.... Polakami!
Once i heard a similar, yet a bit more drastic comparison to a mother that's alcoholic. Yes, she has a lot of problems, but they would rip Your head clean off if You offend her.
Speaking of Polish products: Poland is one of the biggest producers of furniture in Europe - the thing is, they do it for foreign brands, so Polish producers of furniture don't get brand-recognition. Thanks for a great video - as a Pole I think I agree with most of what you say, especially the friendliness thing: in general we need a bit of time to get comfortable with strangers haha. Glad that you enjoy your life here!
Same with car parts... Those fancy german cars engines known for their German quality are often made in Poland, shipped to germany and stamped as "Made in Germany" ;-)
Polish mathematicians decoded the Wermacht Enigma that was less complicated than the Navy one. The Navy one was decorated by British, with a use of Computer, but that work was heavily influenced by the Polish mathematicians. Some of them worked in Bletchley Part with Alan Turing.
@@jakubgalinski2135 AFAIK Polish mathematician who decoded first Enigma didn't work in Bletchey Park. They were considered high risk, as they all had families back in Poland.
The funny thing about stuff from PRL is that these old fridges, hairdryers, drills, even TVs are still working (-; and it's not a joke. According to poverty, yes, we have poor regions in Poland. But on the other hand, this in unbelievable to call the doctor and get information "take more paracetamol". Sometimes we need to wait for the visit to a specialist, but there is no comparison to UK and Polish healthcare.
@@diyor776 this is the exact name of the country. is "United States of America" the same as "American United States"? ;) the meaning is pretty much the same, but the names - are not.
About Polish products, I can say something about cosmetics (because that's the topic I know something about): there are MANY very good cosmetics brands (BasicLab, Sylveco, Vianek, Bielenda, Anwen). Also, in Poland it's easy to find good cosmetics, with good ingredients and also natural cosmetics which I absolutely cannot find in Germany. Every time I go to Germany for longer I have to make zapasy in Poland. :D
one of Polish cosmetics company DAX Cosmetics recently, on top of their excellent products, sells popular Japanese line Hada Labo. I don't know how exactly they cooperate, every time I'm in Poland I buy excellent Japanese facial lotions for 1/3 of Amazon price (when sold by the Japanese company directly).
Not true at all, Poles drink a lot nowadays. Much more than 30 years ago. Young Poles are not affected by alcohol so much, so there’s „clean culture” on the way. Good for us.
I agree that Polish cosmetics are great! once I dreamed about foreigners, now I use practically only Polish ones. I am glad that the Kontigo drugstore has less popular Polish companies. we even have good pc games. Polish kielbasa is also famous for a reason. we have nothing to be ashamed of.
With the quality of Polish products, I always summarize it like this: "Since the communism fell, and even before that, we always looked to the west, how amazing everything there is, how advanced, of what outstanding quality. We took that as a goal, to reach that level. The thing is, what we assumed, and what the reality was, those were two different things. Right now, most of our products are either of equal or better quality, but we are not stopping, because we still have a bit of that inferiority complex, and assume we must be better."
I don't know about Polish products in general, but Polish food is one of the most dangerous in the World. Poland has the worst food standards in the whole of the EU, for example, with 273 incidents of food poisoning - more than France and the Netherlands combined.
@@cheekymonkey5150 No, we're talking about Polish food produced in Poland. Hope that helps. 219 cases of Salmonella in Polish produced food in 2020 alone. 13% of all dangerous food discovered across THE WORLD in 2020 came from Poland. On top of that Poland leads in using strong antibiotics in farm animals. It's the second largest offender in Europe. 70% of all animals are fed antibiotics, 80% of poultry.
@@boskee You know WHY? because our products are NATURAL and cant stay OPEN in refrigerator for "eternity", like western chemical products, and this is not the food standarts but, westerners used to get used to something that could be left open for a week and not break(chemical food) także przestań pierdolić, bo srasz gościu we własne gniazdo, a gówno się znasz na zdrowej żywności ;)
@@boskee Salmonella, you now why? becasue we use true eggs, not fu**ing chemical equivalents, if you open you have 3 days( in refrigerator) to eat this, if you have open for too long than you can have salmonella, tell me if you broke and egg, and you will have this egg for one week in refrigerator, you will eat this? NO because this is a real egg, not chemical substitute, Jesus you are d**b as...
I fully agree with you except one thing. Independence Day for Poles is a national holiday and has nothing to do with nationalism, of course there are such cases, but they are also in all countries. On the other hand, the left-wing media pick up such things and make propaganda about what kind of Poles are fascists and you use the copy and paste method to keep duplicating it ... and this is how stereotypes are born.
And the worst is that one can be a far lefist and even receive an applause for it, but being a far right is a complete no. Let's remind the world that far lefists killed far more people in the world than far rights.
Exactly! because celebrating Independence Day with throwing bricks and setting shops or flags on fire is the best way whole polish families can enjoy these kind of events
My favourite polish clothing brand is Diverse. I always find a bunch of shirts, shorts, joggers, jumpers ect. Where any other clothing brands have 2x2 square meter area for a men and 200 square meters for women...
I am Polish, have not been back to mother land for 30 years, but I can tell you one thing: a Polish person will always try to find a solution to any problem, one way or the other, whatever it takes! BWY I love Dominican Republic, I wish I was there right now on the beach DRINKING 😀
Your videos are always so cheerful, uplifting and to the point: I love them! Gosh, how I miss Polish cosmetic living in Spain! I always take a face cream from Poland when I go back home from visiting my family. And the alcohol stereotype, well, I'd say there is a lot of truth in it. Not that we drink too often, but we drink in a bulk 😂 On the other hand, NONE of my Polish friends would drink and drive, whereas the Spanish.... Well ... Anyways J.T., thanks for making me realize how great my country is each time when I watch your video.
I think there is an odd cycle in Poland where everyone compares themselves to the rest of Europe. Being under Russia for so long meant that poles were not used to making quality things and, seeing how polish people as a whole tend to like to stick to the things that they are good at, seemed to avoid Polish products in precaution of them being worse. What I really like about a change done recently in Poland is the ‘Produkt Polski’ stickers that encourage poles to enjoy their own produce and helps show countries abroad that Poland is proud of what it makes. I still remember how excited I got when I was walking around the typical Tesco here in the Uk and found ‘produkt Polski’ candles, lol.
What I noticed while traveling around the world is that hotels in Poland have a very high standard. You can check into a three-star hotel and feel like you're staying in a five-star hotel. I'm from Poland myself and traveling made me realize that I live in a rich and beautiful country. I am proud to be born here and happy that people from all over the world want to come here. Thank you for the video.
Growing up as a child of immigrants, 1st generation Polish, the stereotypes were a bit different. What you have said is recent and you are right about them all. Back in my day (60's), the stereotype was the dumb Pollock, the gullible Pole, which is along the same lines, and the dirty Pole who never kept their bodies clean, but their houses were immaculate. Times sure have changed. We know that these that I grew up with, though at times painful to me, were so not true, but I wonder how many folks still remember these and believe that there is some validity to them. Thank you for calling out the bullshit.
You must be an American because the dp stereotype was common to the USA only in the 1970's. It was created and perpetuated by American Hollywood. There was no basis in fact in them. The Polish people have enemies in America, just aware. Those stereotypes died quickly once John Paul II came on the scene.
@@peterj5083 Again, what does this have to do with me being an American?? Yes, I am an American, but I have many Polish values because of how I was raised. These stereotypes were rampant long before the 70's. My parents, my brother, all endured them in the 50's and 60's as did I. You are missing the point that you can be living in one country but hold dear the traits of your heritage.
@@dorothyirby5740 What I am saying is that this was an American phenomenon, that's all. Has nothing to do with you. I am aware that there was anti-Polish immigrant prejudice in America. I am aware of the '70's because that's when I was growing up as a teenager and what I know about those times is the intense amount of bigotry that was spewed our by Hollywood during those times. Remember Archie Bunker?
@@peterj5083 Absolutely, but you keep prefacing your comments with you are an American!! So what?? Yes I am. The conversation started with the certain traits of Polish women, which I have, even though I was raised here in America, by a Polish family. You have gone out on a tangent, and that makes me feel like you are being insulting. Yes, I am a proud American, but I am also a proud Polish descendent. If you wish to cintinue this conversation, please stop leading with that phrase - you are an American. It's very condescending!!
@@dorothyirby5740 You are missing my point. I hope I can clarify. I was merely stating an observation that these stereotypes we're prevalent in the USA and nowhere else. Has nothing to do with you personally as an American. American history has a lot of ugliness to it. Of course, there are many good things and who wants to dwell on the unpleasant aspects of history. Many countries have good and bad histories.
I agree with you, especially on the last point. Every country has its poor and its rich, Poland is no different, but the level of poverty that I have seen in some areas of Canada or the United States, I have not seen in Poland ever, even 22 years ago and I have been all over the country from large cities to small towns and villages. United States is one of the richest country in the world, but it has a growing problem with homelessness that is a lot of greater than in Poland. I am sure that there are some homelessness people too, but I have not seen them on the streets begging, lying on the streets and howling in Warsaw, the way I see them in Toronto. And I have been to Poland last month. I would even say that an average person in Poland has a higher standard of living than an average person in Canada.
Having watched lots on poverty in US I can honestly tell that what is poverty in US does not exist in Poland anymore, long since XIX century. Even the poorest families in Poland have better access to safe drinking water, medical and dental services than poor families in US or UK.
I live in a city about 250000 citizen. There are 2 homeless shelters full in winter, that is less than a 80 people, plus of course those who do not go there (mostly because you cannot drink there). I do not think it is a lot.
I am a big outdoor fan, I have visited many Scandinavian countries, I even went camping in Iceland and I buy a lot of trekking clothes. Last summer I found out that our Polish company 4f is better in terms of quality than the north face . It is at least half the price, and the products destroy the competition in terms of quality and practicality. We have reasons to be proud, for me 4f is one of them.
"Polska dla Polaków" means Poland for Poles and it comes from the time when being Polish was a state of mind, not racial/national thing. People from many nations were proud Polish citizens and millions of foreigners wanted to be Polish at that time. Our patriotism comes from our history and has not much to do with hooligans but usually hooligans are also patriots like in most of countries. Independence Day in Warsaw is very positive, highly patriotic day for us. Pictures you shown are just some extreme shots, very hard to spot in reality. You have just repeated what we can hear about Independence day in some of our leftish, anti-polish mainstream media. This demonstration is very peaceful. Why you didn't show pictures of families, kids, war veterans, eldery people or those who wear a historic uniforms? Your number 3 is totally wrong. Come and see our Independence day in person to verify all bullshit you said about it.
I agree 100%. A foggy autumn evening. A large number of marching Poles, families, elderly people, young people. There will be a group of “over-dimensioned. ” This is the case all over the world, but it is a distorted picture of the celebrations of our INLENGTHMARCH. There is a purpose to portray every positive thing we have in the world as false, disgusting, disgusting. Somewhere, someone on the outside has that goal. But we will fight for a real message about Poland.
ua-cam.com/play/PLOge6UoyxZrHbeh8imQbS6rTbD9G2MI58.html we have many super Polish people's of mamy races and religions and still we don't accept those who don't love Poland. And they all Polish people's were also on this march what leftists don't likes and show this how they wanted to show this. That's all
I loved how the statistic you showed totally proved Poland is so not what other countries make it look like, especially the drinking. My husband is Polish, he will not drink. He drank his grandpas Wodka at 13years old, and vomited the whole night😂. However, we were at a Party here in Germany, weird and proud ppl (our neighbors unfortunately) with a 'home-made' alcoholic beverage. Never again! I felt different after a single zip, had to hold on to the table after a few minutes. Never had a experienced this (never had alcohol before). My husband got a whole bottle and was challenged and made fun of as the Polish guy, he was, if he could handle it. He drank his bottle, and my glas, and was the only one sober when we left. Also he didn't have any weird symptoms in the morning as all the neighbors, nobody knows how he did it, neither I, he made sure I was okay and walked the dog. I guess it is just ppl that envy the Poles how well they can handle alcohol. My German body def. won't, when I see my collegues and our neighbours, definitely not either! Thank you for cleaning up the stereotypes. I hate it. Germans make jokes about their cars to be found in Poland if they can't see it right away. The crime numbers are much less in Poland than here, still they keep the nonsense and pass it on. My husband won't even cross a red light😂 he would never do wrong things intentionally.
Maksymilian Faktorowicz born in Zdunska Wola, Poland. Emigrated to USA and started there well known Max Factor cosmetics company. Also eyelash mascara creator.
Kombinować in practice: 1. The government has banned trading on Sunday - with a few exceptions: - supermarkets open courier points 1.1 The government changes the law - supermarkets open a mini-library and reader clubs 1.2 The government changes the law - supermarkets open medical points 1.3 The government changes the law - again - Markets are opening a sports equipment rental 2. The government is increasing the tax on small alcohol bottles - producers make slightly larger bottles 3. Heating boilers must have classifications - buy stickers in the online store 4. You are a politician and you have to submit a financial declaration, but did you steal a little? - transfer all property to your wife
We've always had difficult history - but as you said - try and start conversation with us Poles - you'll be surprised how good and friendly we are toward foreigners. I hosted few myself when I had my flat in Biala Podlaska. An American from San Diego, a guy from St. Petersburg, few lads from Minsk and few from Kobryn. We like all people as long as they're fair to us. We open our hearts to everybody - after a little while that is 🙂
don't agree about getting shitfaced - it's a big no-no to drink to point of cutoff. You will be ridiculed and laughed at if you do so. It means you cannot handle alcohol. The point is to drink a lot at one sitting and still feel ok and know where to stop.
@@piechur83 porownujac do innych krajow - nie zgodze sie. W Polsce jest mala szansa na doswiadcznie iscie dantejskich scen dziejacych sie weekendami np. w UK czy Irlandii.
Vigo! I really like your way of presenting each topic. Honest, open minded with good sense of humor. And I agree with you 99%.....ooo ...ok...100%. Serdecznie pozdrawiam.
Pai! When I was in Poland I wanted a sweatsuit from Reserve pero never found my size! Bueno my European size porque sizes run different out there. Can’t wait to go back next year.
I was wondering about the introduction: that the recent event in Ukraine create an interest in visiting Poland. I just heard other news: that international tourism to Poland suffers from the war and numbers from international tourists are down by 50%. If justified or not, obviously some tourists think Poland is "too close" to the war.
@@VigosDad Of course, it is not rational, still it is problem for tourism. I watch an interview, where say mentioned that the idea of "a refugee crises" made people change their travel plans.
From someone running a tourism company in Germany and Poland: international tourism in Poland is in big trouble, people irrationallly have the war on their mind unfortunately, whereas in Germany it’s booming. But indeed, when the war is won by Ukraine I am sure that the current PR and positive exposure that Poland is gaining, is gonna help PL bounce back in this regard double next years.
@@gbplus747 Zdaje się, że nie mieszkasz w Trójmieście. Tutaj Wejherowo ma solidnie wypracowaną markę XD Jedno z lepszych co słyszałem to "W Gdyni mieszkania są tańsze od 3 piętra w górę, dlatego, że widać Wejherowo". Mam nadzieję, że pomogłem. Osobiście nie mam nic do Wejherowa, ale takie teksty są w sumie śmieszne. Pozdrawiam.
@@warakn dobrze piszesz. Zobacz mem „lody o smaku Wejherowo”. To mnie rozwaliło najbardziej. Mieszkam w Wejherowie już 14 lat ale bawi mnie to niezmiennie. W Gdyni mieszkałem 28 lat. Większość czasu na 4 piętrze, ale Wejherowa nie było widać 😂 Pozdrawiam Trójmiasto!
Thank you for making this video, to dispel many myths were people to this day think Poland is stuck i the late’70s-Early ‘80s. RESERVED is my favourite fashion brand . Bought clothes from their store 5 yrs ago, and with a certain line of shirts s & zip up jacket they had, it looked like it was coming out of the same Turkish factory as SuperDry was at the same time, it was the quality of the fabric that looked identical, with one or two styling questions which mimicked SuperDry. They also own other fast fashion aimed at teenagers called Cropp & House. They also opened up their first UK store on Oxford in London.
Jako Polak od urodzenia powiem , ze Twoje spostrzezenia sa idealnie prawdziwe. Kraj który ma ponad 1.000 lat, który brał udział we wszystkich wojnach głównie jako kraj rabowany przez Ruskich, Niemcówe, Szwedów,Austriaków, Szwajcarów....i Polaków ;) nadal trwa i radzi sobie dzielnie. Dzięki Polakom i Solidarności rozpadł się KOMUNIZM i ruski mir. To chyba o czymś świadczy kim jestesmy jako naród.
I leave in NY but Poland is my country..I was there in July.. oh boy..it is beatifull ! Very very clean .. friendly people ..welcoming..I am so proud to be polish ..thank you for so many complements..🥰
Hello Vigo’s Dad😀 I’m Polish living currently in UK 🇬🇧. I want to thank you for your way of describing Poland to foreigners and how you advertising our culture, our pro’s and our con’s. You mentioned Ziaja as a beauty products- I confirm- it is very good line of products, we as a Poles really have nothing to be ashamed of. As many times I’m coming to Krakow as many times I’m buying Polish skin care products as they are really good. Once again thank you for your insight and your kind words. Wish you all the best hoping that Vigo will become like his dad😊🥰🥰🥰
Poland is an amazing country and true patriots never would say anything bad about Poland. Polish people used to drink more during the communism. But, yes we drink for every occasions but we like also dance and have a good food. "scammers" - this is a result from the communism too, because we had to "kombinowac" always, there never was a strait way to do anything. In Poland there is nothing what is impossible, there is always the way. I love Poland, it is the most beautiful country in the world and in general there are living a good people with empathy for others suffering.
Hi, thanks for many kind words about Poland. I'm Polish and it's always amazing to hear foreigners who's got so many insights about Poland. For most people Poland is known from The Witcher, Lewandowski, and John Paul II only. Since I'm a Pole, I can refer to all you mentioned in the video: 1) I've never heard this stereotype, really, not a single time. Although being in western Europe I heard quite many times that Poles are believed to be hard working people (which makes sense because we used to go abroad to earn as much as possible and then get back with the money and buy an apartment or a car). I worked abroad too, I took as many overhours as possible :D 2) You described that well. If there are two types of people - peach and coconut - we are the coconut. It's not easy to make a friend, but if you do, it will be BFF. On the other hand, Americans for example are peach people - very easy to start with, but quite hard to go further at some point. 3) This one deserve a longer comment but let me make it short. Polish nationalism is hyped by media and it's totally overhyped. E.g. if a Polish guy crashes a front glass of a Polish pub, no one will talk about that. If a Polish guy crashes a front glass from Turkish kebab bar, all media across the country write about dangerous Polish nationalism. This is in order to make the society polarized, conflicted, and weak when dealing with government and authorities in general. Especially the independence day walk used to be presented in media totally manipulated. I don't know a single nationalist and I don't know anyone who said he knew one. I'd rather say that Poles comparing to other nations are not very "commited" to their nationality, not very patriotic, and a lot of Poles despise (don't respect) their own nationality, which is fueled by media, which in most cases are not Polish (most media in Poland are foreign capital). Summing it up, it's of course, as you said, not black&white in Poland, but there are much more people in Poland, who manifestes anti-nationalism than nationalism itself. 4) Well described. In Poland in most cases we don't drink during the day (there's no culture of drinking a wine for a lunch or dinner) and in many cases Poles don't even drink on working days, but when partying, especially on evening saturdays, we drink like mad, accepting the hangover next day. It can be sometimes sort of a competition - who can drink more. We used to say that only Russians can drink more. I didn't know that the avarage alcohol consumption is that bigger in Germany (according to the statistic you gave). Germans are quite offten surprised how much we drink during parties. 5) Polish scamers. Yes and no. That is truth, that when you buy a car a seller may not tell you that it was crashed and fixed, and when you discover that the seller will act like surprised. When I was young I used to believe that we Polish people together with Russian and Ukrainians are worst scammers in the world until I started traveling and discovered that in Asia (Thailand, India, China), Africa (Egypt, Tunisia) or in some cases South America it used to be much, much worse. You may be cheated in Poland when buying used goods (i.e. unless you ask you may be not informed about item's flaws), but it's not like each cab driver wants to fu..k you, which I experienced abroad. 6) Low quality Polish product was truth 30 years ago. Currently in each market segment you can buy Polish products which used to be very good or even top notch quality, but the prices are also comperable with high quality foreign equivalents (e.g. German products). 30 years ago we used to say "it's good because it's from west". Young generation is more and more into Polish products, and buying Polish products from luxurious microbrands is sort of trendy if you can afford it. 7) That was true 20 years ago. Currently it's like you described. It's best to compare how people live, in what restaurants they eat, what cars they have, houses, clothing, and what vacation they go for. PS - are you Dominican..? Your English is great.
3:16 you are half right here, half amount of people i see when i am somewhere outside are tall or taller than me (words from 185+cm tall guy) and other half is people nearly as tall as me, not every person i see is 160 or something but there are shorter people too, mainly its the younger generations that are the tall part here because its mainly people who just started their life (aka 18-20yo's) Also yeah, I am very proud to be Polish, one of things I am most proud of Go to Zimna Wódka, Sworne Gacie, Mała Wieś Przy Drodze, Paryż, idk what else
The stereotype that we like to drink lots cones from ages ago. Long story short back in the day, when people would drink water they would often get sick. However, what Poles discovered was that drinking lager/beer didn't have that effect. Bear in mind the golden drink was very week back then (about 2%) hence other nations were thinking that we drink huge amount of alcohol.
On no. 3. As a Pole, I must say that it's a bit more complicated. We have a kind of love-hate relationship with our country. You know well about our "marudzenie". Not understanding our relationship with Poland seems to have something to do with it. You will find it in every Pole. This should be remembered especially when we are talking about our country. The funny thing is that when you, as a foreigner, speak badly about our country, even if we have complained about it a moment ago, we will immediately defend it. As I said, it's complicated. Believe me, the meaning of the word "complaining" is not even close to the true Polish meaning of "marudzenie". AND HEY! In no. 5. In "12:12". This is KOFLA. It's a Czech product. It's still in the market there. And it's better than in the US. I love your work. Keep it up. Greetings from Kraków!
Yes polish people are good in manual labour and they can fix everything but there is a lot of people who have different skills. They are not very friendly on the outside. Nowadays they don't drink as much, a lot of people were alcoholics back in the 90's. Polish people are very cheeky but it depends from a person, especially how were they raised. It used to b one of the poorest countries in Europe. Now it is one of the best in central eastern Europe
9:12 not really scammers but more we like to contrive for our convenience and there even is a story about a polish man which lived in german ouccupied part of Poland and it was forbidden for poles to live in houses so he buyed a cart and he lived in it, and every day changed the place so he could stay in his town.
We like to drink a lot but we are also highly resistant to alcohol and poisons - I can drink 10 beers or more and go to bed at 2 AM and wake up at 6-7 AM without any hangover and full of energy.
Hello! great observations again!! just 2 things from my end. First on when tech companies come here for cheap labour, its not true, programmers , developers, Managers etc i know they have a very good package offered to them. Second i love Polish products, they are made well, i often buy tools made in Poland and never had problems, I just don`t like the quality of their pasta and im sorry but the tomato paste i must say is quite horrible, and i had Polish say that to me after trying good made ones.😄
3:54 i think the biggest thing in breaking the tourist vs local barier is showing them that you know *some* words in polish, it doesnt have to be full on sentences but you show them this way that you care about their language and culture :]
Nationalism in every country has a different background, pro tip: the history of Poland and its experiences. Hooliganism is a separate issue, hooliganism is cretinism and thuggery, and the fact that someone shouts a patriotic slogan on occasion is a form of justification for the action.
Good this way! A good video about Poland! As for alcohol consumption. So everyone in the Soviet-occupied countries drugged themselves with alcohol to endure Communism. Although in the Soviet Union alcohol was also used to endure the Soviet system. In Poland, young people no longer consume as much alcohol as it used to in order to endure the communist misery. Thank you Germany for the Soviet occupation!
i am suprised how you pronaunce Rzgów :) ...good observations - usually people with outside experience see better what insiders do not see :) Good job.
when i was working abroad, i lived with three other polish for a couple of years at the 2000's. All of em heavy workers, two of em alcoholics, all very heavy workers, two of em (the olders) hated leftist to death and rusian above all (they were in their 30's), all of em loved their families and poland, but insulted it almost as much. They all loved the USA as a hollyland, not just rich. I met some other family of em, that came for a few days, more normal in the drink department, but all talked sxxt about poland even if it was his sweethome, adored USA and hated rusians. OH, all of em used kurva at least every ten seconds. They were good people who tryed to help and teach me all the time and very generous with what little they had, but a bit homofobic with a gay flatmate (not just a bit....). I'm from spain and the story is from a time i lived in UK.
Complaining about our country is a part of the small talk. Instead of talking about weather, we rather bitch about inflation, low wages, thieves in the government etc. But its for people who are not great with their people skills and have usually nothing interesting to say so to not be silent they complain. About that right wing ideology, there is a trend for some years already, to wear clothes with polish patriotic slogans. Personally i see it as just a justification of aggression, people wearing these tend towards to (hooligan type). We are heavy drinkers, there is an alcoholism problem in the society, but during my lifetime (36yo) i noticed culture of drinking became more pushed out of our way of life,(not cool anymore). Lots of these stereotypes come from 20th century and are not relevant anymore. As for shady people, you just have to trust your guts! Petty crime is out there but its generally safe to go anywhere anytime. Honestly i think Poland in the next 20 years will become the leader of Europe, seeing as how fast things are changing! Great content as usual, thanks VD!
when it comes to "hatred" of Poland from Poles, it's a love and hate relationship most Poles love their country more than life BUT they hate what is happening to Poland at the moment and what a circus Polish politics is. I know something about it, after all, I am Polish myself
I love your Kanał 😲 Mówię i piszę po angielsku lecz tutaj nie będę się produkował bo jednak mówię lepiej niż piszę ! Zgadzam się z twoimi spostrzeżeniami i nawet rozumię sens twojego pasjonowania się polską ....... po prostu warto 😎 Keep doing what You do because You have done so well so far! Greetings from Manchester 😬
While travelling through some western Europe countries I noticed that we are also advanced in case of paying by card. In Poland you can pay by card practically everywhere even in really small shops since many years. Meanwhile in Italy 2019 I went into the shop on one of the main streat in tourist village and I couldn’t pay by card. It wasn’t a single case in that country. In Netherlands I desperately paid 3,5€ provision in ATM because in some places (maybe coffeshop lol) in Amsterdam evening I couldn’t pay by card. I also managed to get into the shop that was accepting cards but no Visa nor Mastercard. I really was like „how these people live like in the freaking forest”.
As a Pole, I can confirm. We do like cashless payments very much. We even have a government program called "Cashless Poland" which encourages businesses to use payment terminals for free for a year and without commission up to 100k PLN (22k EUR) income. Also, Poland has a high level of digitization with BLIK technology (instant money transfer from a bank account to another account using a phone number), fast and limitless internet, e-prescriptions, and android/iOS government app with e-documents like ID card, driver's license etc. Last month our parliament enacted a law that equals the legal status of physical documents and e-documents, meaning we can identify with our e-documents in office or during police control haha :D
i think a lot of tourists get scammed because they don't have street smarts. The most important thing you can say as a tourist is sorry i don't have money. "przepraszam nie mam pieniędzy" :D
The problem is Multiculti crates more problems look at USA , France, England etc. and why Asia for Asians is ok Africa for Africans is ok but Poland for Polish not ok. Why all western countries have to be multiculti ? We want to be like Japan they do not like foreigners moving in and no body complains about them. We like to preserve our culture and small migrant population is ok. But we do not want to be overrun and loose our identity. Whats wrong with that.
I very much liked that video, Im polish but live here juest for 16 years, before I lived in Kuwait, USA and Canada, there is a significant difference in wealth (your last point) here is an example brand new Toyota Corolla in USA costs about 18 - 22k USD where living and working legally in USA as a Law clerk I made $3500 a month, buying a new car with 0% intrest at a dealership was a breeze, now in 2022 I'm an IT specialist making about 7000zł which is a decent pay, new corolla cost about 90k zł, given cost of living there is no way in hell I can afford to but a car like that, not to mention SUVs or more sporty cars for over 150k zł, there is a huge gap between ppl who can afford to go for a lunch to a restaurant, rent an apparment or go for vacation but are denied certain items deemend luxury like cars or even good computer hardware, new gaming laptop? 6000zł, iPhone 7500zł its either I buy it and no eat or pay rent or go without it. A 40 square meter apartmet, so single bedroom with jointed kitchen is half a million zł, with good credit rating alone I'll pay it off in 40 years where in USA with similar job I can buy a house in NY or NJ. Cost of food and gas is also much higher. Only alcohol remains cheap, good old bread and games philosophy. So for you its cheap, with 4 to 1 conversion factor your sallary makes the poorest american a wealthy foringer in poland, there as whats concidered a middle class citizen cannot afford "nice things"
Just got back from Poland for the third time (Polska Zona), and agree totally with you, and as far as wealth goes, I have never seen so many top end cars in my life. There is some serious money in Poland
Ludzie są przewrażliwieni, albo wprost - są antypolscy, jeśli tego typu hasło uważają za "ekstremizm" czy "faszyzm"... W końcu nie jest tutaj napisane "Polska tylko dla Polaków". Może mało się bujam po kraju, ale nigdy nie spotkałem się osobiście z nieuzasadnioną napaścią na obcokrajowca. Ludzie w Polsce mogą między sobą mówić o "czarnuchach", "szkopach", "kacapach" etc., ale jeśli ten obcokrajowiec jest normalnym, szanującym ludzi i miejsce, w którym się aktualnie znajduje, człowiekiem, to z takim samym szacunkiem będzie traktowany przez nas. Co więcej, taki obcokrajowiec może też być traktowany jako Polak - vide autor filmiku!
Like the Chanel,honest and truth.By the way it's not very known that many products people eat in Europe are produced,grown or made in Poland and on the label said product of EU or made in any country where you buy those product.So people really doesn't know that they using or eating Polish made product's.
I have to say..my partner is polish,we have lived together 15 years,in uk and also New Zealand my home country.We after so long are now back in Poland over six months staying with family here.To be honest..we are finding it quite hard with the polish mentality.Its seems so many pols like to live in a world of melancholy.Meaning they love to look miserable,make life out to be so hard.I don't see people sleeping on the streets?I see a lot of people inherit homes.Go to the supermarket fill the trolley with great food at cheap prices etc.We love New Zealand...but it is becoming far to exspensive to live there for most things.The lifestyle is amazing,not many people like Europe.People smile,high five each other,friendly to tourist etc.Life is much easier in poland the people should be more happy.
I live in Poland my whole life. I feel like the mindset that Poland sucks is becoming a common thing among my generation (I'm 30 years old), and even more among the younger generation... Kids at schools already plan to migrate once they graduate. The heavy drinking is not just a stereotype. In the past, it was actual truth. About 20-30 years ago for sure. It's just that starting with my generation, we have better things to do with friends than drinking + there are more drivers per party. Vodka is becoming something in the way of a good party if overused. I never expected we had the stereotype of being scammers. No idea where that came from. Knowing how to get what you need, have nothing to do with scamming someone.
Something is good and something is not like every country. It depends a lot from the point of view and life experience: if we assume most of people from a foreign country will lend on miasto like Warszawa, Kraków, Gdansk and so on. But Poland is not only inside big cities and the base of polish economy system is exactly based on countryside production. Without that the polish economical system will collapse and this is one of the reason why the nation can't meet some european union standard. Only good at manual labor: not true but polish people have a great knowledge of every manual labour (especially people from a small gmina). The reasons are multiple: lack of some professional figures in little towns and lack of money (people must understand that there's a big difference in the nation about work compensation inside a city and inside a town: same job, same hours, same rules but you will probably get the minimum salary in a gmina 2800zł ca.). If we calculate about the need to have a car, insurance and (most of people in a gmina can't afford another private healthcare insurance) we can easily understand causes/consequences. In Poland this difference about salary is normal (in most of other european countries you will get the sama salary and it isn't affected by the location/where are you working). It will be drastically different if you will get a job in Warsaw for 2700zł (and it's obvious that most of foreigners will not come in Poland to work for such salary). Most of polish memes about manual labour are about one person work when the other co-workers watch him. They are not friendly: polish are really generous people always ready to help as they can usually. They are curious about other countries cultures but also very nationalist and linked to their traditions and history. Only polish can complain about poland. Drink culture: not so different of other countries, you will get less experience about drunk people in a miasto (thanks to the police and well, it will be hard to spot people drink normally because in Poland is forbidden to drink outside places as pub/club/restaurant/cafeteria etc...). In a town is easy to go in the morning to the local shop and find already people changing the empty bottles for full ones, buy 100ml Wódka and drink it in one shot. But as i said, not so much different from some other countries They are scammers: never meet a scammer in Poland. Polish product low quality: i don't think so but depends of the kind of products we are analyzing. Poland is poor: as i mentioned about the first topic. There's a big difference between city and towns. Big polish brands (if they don't need a multi-national support) usually build their facilities outside the cities (less expenses about workers, cheap price of final product. The internal economy is based on the countryside production (primary products and material for food industries) and to use the big cities for multi-national brands (easily you will get all the extras like big american brands: gym card, private healthcare insurance, normal/standard european salary). Witaj w Polsce!
11:29 in 70s and 80s Polish products were considered very high quality in other communist states, they were just shit by design as they were designed by soviets. They improved what they could but if a design is bad it will be bad even with the best quality
5:18 I'm nationalist and I'm proud.of it. I was on Independence March many times and it was awesome. 🇵🇱❤️ You just don't understand of polish nationalism. Please read more about Roman Dmowski, who is a hero,he was a "father" of polish nationalism. Don't trust leftist propaganda.
JT they should just give you a Polish passport. Your love of Poland is truly inspiring and warm on the heart, I think you appreciate Poland more than some of us Polish people 🤔😜 Much love to you and the Familia
I am disappointed about point 3, where you are mixing up nationalism, patriotism, and Poland Independence Day with hooligan. Being proud of being Polish is important and beautiful - without that, Poland would not exist today, as they was not on the map for 123 years. I agree that there are some elements of extremist, as in any country, BUT mixing this up with picture from Poland’s Independence Day, is like you would talk about KKK and show pictures from 4 of July parade in USA!
I didn’t say that people that celebrate independence day are hooligans but that there are hooligans that use that day to express their extreme views through the use of verbal and physical violence which is true and the proof is out there in the many videos that surface year after year on this day.
@@VigosDad you are connecting nationalism with hooliganism, which is completely wrong, and you add to that Independence Day. Hooliganism relates to football, patriotism and nationalism is something good, and positive. Cherry picking from Independence Day some few, extreme bad elements create a bad visualization of the WHOLE Independence Day. A lot of foreign media tries to trash down Poland and their way of celebrating and being proud of becoming independent. Poland for Poles is like saying - we are Poles, we don’t want Germans or Russians occupying us again. It doesn’t mean we hate other people. Nevertheless, I just wanted to point out one thing that I disagree with you about, and think is wrong. Otherwise, Good Job 😊
I don’t think I connected those things I just pointed out a group of people that precisely come out to try and ruin that day. They use that date specifically to express their retrograde views. if they used other dates to pull their shenanigans i would point those dates too. I am not trying to associate PL independence day with hooliganism, but to point out how these ppl do those things on that day.
@@VigosDad sure, ok - I understand - but I interpreted differently, no problem - communication is hard and it doesn't always "land" as we wanted. . :-) I appreciate your response, Dzieki!
Cd projekt, and one of their games - Witcher 3 (considered one of the best rpg games in the world) is a polish company. It proofs your points about polish things not being only poor quality, and polish people being only good at manual labor.
Scamming is profound in Polish diaspora, especially prominent in the USA. People who are established and run business often take advantage of newly arrived people. It is almost proverbial in the US not to work for another Pole.
About this alcohol I would say not the most alcohol in general but the most of heavy (high%) alcohol-in germany people are drinking a lot of beers, also those information can't include crazy amount of home made alcohol :)
It really has to do with cheap labor. As you can see Russia and Poland are on that list it is like 3 dollars an hour. If Poland were to ever join the euro it would be over for Poland. There debt would climb to 2 trillion and they could not make it.
To Polish brand list and industrial products: PESA Bydgoszcz and NEWAG - two of the best producers of railway vehicles in Europe. NEWAG 6dg is the first really HYBRID locomotive in the world. It has a 30 litre V8 electric power generator from American Caterpillar consuming only 1,7 litre of oil per hour and can switch to fully electric battery ride when necessary, for example in no fire zones, where both diesel and electric locomotives are forbidden due to spark risk when the pantograph loses touch with traction line on wind. NEWAG 6dg can be also ordered with both batteries and pantograph for unlimited power preserve possibilities.
Jak każdy naród mamy swoje wady i zalety. Mieszkają tutaj super dobrzy ludzie i chamidła oraz złodzieje. Ja tam staram się chwalić nasz kraj. W bardzo krótkim czasie przeszliśmy bardzo długą drogę. Mam niespełna 40lat, pamiętam jeszcze kartki. Pamiętam jak się śliniłam przed witrynami Pewexu bo były tam zabawki o których mogłam tylko śnić. Teraz te same zabawki są w zasięgu ręki i jestem w stanie kupić je mojemu dziecku (oczywiście nie wszystko i nie od razu, ale coś na pewno). Ludzie nie dostrzegają ogromu postępu jaki mamy. Teraz fakt, są ciężkie czasy, ale czasy się zmienią i będzie lepiej :D
You got it wrong my friend. Polska dla Polaków, this quote does not mean ''Poland sucks''. This quote is addressed to politicians who think that we are there for them and not they for us. They want us to work as long as we can and as hard as we can while paying huge taxes that are constantly increasing. The independence march is a tradition that they want to ban because people come out with banners talking about the theft that politicians are committing. People don't agree with this. POLSKA Dla Polaków - Poland For Poles don't mean that we are racists and do not like other nationalities. it is directed at the government which supposedly gives us something but in fact only takes away and wants more. We don't want government to give us anything, we want them to stop taking from us and we will be fine. Poles are proud of their own country and love this country more than life itself. I'll say in advance that my English isn't the best, but I hope that if someone reads this, they'll understand what I mean.
Poles very often like to complain and talk shit about their country, but only among themselves. Don't you dare offend Poland, if you are a foreigner. They would defend their country with all they've got.
NIE OPOWIADAMY BZDUR O NASZYM KRAJU.
That is called ' love' 😂❤
Absolutely agree
I can't wait to go to Poland and see where my mother-in-law was born. I was in a thrift store yesterday here in the states and my novice Polish ear picked up some of the language. A group of babci were shopping and talking to one another. I was so excited but never got up the nerve to say dzien dobry. I did stalk them a little and was so happy to realize I could recognize about half of what they were saying after about 2 years of study. Maybe after another year I'll be able to have a simple conversation. 😅
*babcie :D
Congratulations that you got Polish so fast! I hope your visit in Poland will be wonderful!
@@NarcissisticCannibal Ah, babcie. Thank you.
Congrats ❣
Polish is super difficult, there are even quite a large number of Poles who don't speak it well.
@@aprilcoburn5214 Babcie, many grandmothers ;) our grammar is difficult even for us Polish plp ;) many Polish plp dont speak with proper grammar, because its so difficult, BUT on the other way, is way superrior than most of the language on the world, with conveying information with the least amount of words(many nations think that we speak very fast), for example word "zrobiła" this one word give you information about sex, time and action, this word means "She did " or "She did it" ;)
Hurry up in order to visit it before Putin wishes to nuke it down. ;)
Poland and Poles have relationship like siblings. We can say shit about Poland but when someone else do it we see red. 😄
Big facts
haha, chyba zartujesz, mors.
Polak podejdzie do turysty w Polsce jak zobaczy ze mu sie podoba, i zacznie mu tlumaczyc, ze sie myli, ze Polska to beznadziejny kraj. MOWIE Z DOSWIADCZENIA.
ten caly film jest o tym, ze facet z zagranicy broni Polski przed.... Polakami!
Couldn't say it better.
Once i heard a similar, yet a bit more drastic comparison to a mother that's alcoholic. Yes, she has a lot of problems, but they would rip Your head clean off if You offend her.
Wszyscy Polacy to jedna rodzina
Speaking of Polish products: Poland is one of the biggest producers of furniture in Europe - the thing is, they do it for foreign brands, so Polish producers of furniture don't get brand-recognition. Thanks for a great video - as a Pole I think I agree with most of what you say, especially the friendliness thing: in general we need a bit of time to get comfortable with strangers haha. Glad that you enjoy your life here!
They also produce boats as a second world class producer of boats and yachts right behind US!
Same with car parts... Those fancy german cars engines known for their German quality are often made in Poland, shipped to germany and stamped as "Made in Germany" ;-)
True, the amount of furniture types is outstanding. And it's so original
Condiments too. My Polish girlfriend introduced me to Polish mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard. They are simply the best I have had.
Wich Mayonnaise? Winiary or kielecki?
@@krzysiekm728 nie prowokuj 😄💣😀
@@krzysiekm728 Both are the best ;) because they are Polish ;) its joke ;) but winiary and kielecki are the best
@@krzysiekm728 Kętrzyński TOP
@@WoZYtaZ83071 nope, only winiary
Enigma machine was decoded by 3 Polish mathematicians, before British did it.
That’s true. They did it: Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski in 1932.
not before, for english.
Polish mathematicians decoded the Wermacht Enigma that was less complicated than the Navy one. The Navy one was decorated by British, with a use of Computer, but that work was heavily influenced by the Polish mathematicians. Some of them worked in Bletchley Part with Alan Turing.
@@jakubgalinski2135 AFAIK Polish mathematician who decoded first Enigma didn't work in Bletchey Park.
They were considered high risk, as they all had families back in Poland.
TO PRAWDA
The funny thing about stuff from PRL is that these old fridges, hairdryers, drills, even TVs are still working (-; and it's not a joke.
According to poverty, yes, we have poor regions in Poland. But on the other hand, this in unbelievable to call the doctor and get information "take more paracetamol". Sometimes we need to wait for the visit to a specialist, but there is no comparison to UK and Polish healthcare.
Not correcting you but for those who don't know what PRL is, in English it would be PRoP (People's Republic of Poland)
@@diyor776 Polish People's Republic
@@kaczkinson both are pretty much the same
@@diyor776 this is the exact name of the country. is "United States of America" the same as "American United States"? ;) the meaning is pretty much the same, but the names - are not.
@@kaczkinson Fair enough
About Polish products, I can say something about cosmetics (because that's the topic I know something about): there are MANY very good cosmetics brands (BasicLab, Sylveco, Vianek, Bielenda, Anwen). Also, in Poland it's easy to find good cosmetics, with good ingredients and also natural cosmetics which I absolutely cannot find in Germany. Every time I go to Germany for longer I have to make zapasy in Poland. :D
Same 😁 while living in Austria i can't find good face and hair cosmetics brands. Only online shopping and zapasy every time when I'm home.
My mum and my sister does exactly the same, always zapasy in Poland, before they go to Germany
one of Polish cosmetics company DAX Cosmetics recently, on top of their excellent products, sells popular Japanese line Hada Labo.
I don't know how exactly they cooperate, every time I'm in Poland I buy excellent Japanese facial lotions for 1/3 of Amazon price (when sold by the Japanese company directly).
Hahah, I am doing the same.
Not many people know it, but the Max Factor was founded by Polish guy, Maksymilian Faktorowicz
What an ambassador of Poland!
One of the Polish stereotypes is psychoanalytical complexity.
As to drinking - alcoholism was huge problem in Poland in late communism era. Now it’s a different country in that matter.
Not true at all, Poles drink a lot nowadays. Much more than 30 years ago. Young Poles are not affected by alcohol so much, so there’s „clean culture” on the way. Good for us.
Vigo’s Dad you are the best ambassador of Poland and Poles!!! You are great and your enthusiasm is fantastic ❤❤❤
I agree that Polish cosmetics are great! once I dreamed about foreigners, now I use practically only Polish ones. I am glad that the Kontigo drugstore has less popular Polish companies. we even have good pc games. Polish kielbasa is also famous for a reason. we have nothing to be ashamed of.
With the quality of Polish products, I always summarize it like this: "Since the communism fell, and even before that, we always looked to the west, how amazing everything there is, how advanced, of what outstanding quality. We took that as a goal, to reach that level. The thing is, what we assumed, and what the reality was, those were two different things. Right now, most of our products are either of equal or better quality, but we are not stopping, because we still have a bit of that inferiority complex, and assume we must be better."
I don't know about Polish products in general, but Polish food is one of the most dangerous in the World. Poland has the worst food standards in the whole of the EU, for example, with 273 incidents of food poisoning - more than France and the Netherlands combined.
@@boskee Are we talking about supermarket's type of food? which are not even polish products
@@cheekymonkey5150 No, we're talking about Polish food produced in Poland. Hope that helps.
219 cases of Salmonella in Polish produced food in 2020 alone. 13% of all dangerous food discovered across THE WORLD in 2020 came from Poland.
On top of that Poland leads in using strong antibiotics in farm animals. It's the second largest offender in Europe. 70% of all animals are fed antibiotics, 80% of poultry.
@@boskee You know WHY? because our products are NATURAL and cant stay OPEN in refrigerator for "eternity", like western chemical products, and this is not the food standarts but, westerners used to get used to something that could be left open for a week and not break(chemical food) także przestań pierdolić, bo srasz gościu we własne gniazdo, a gówno się znasz na zdrowej żywności ;)
@@boskee Salmonella, you now why? becasue we use true eggs, not fu**ing chemical equivalents, if you open you have 3 days( in refrigerator) to eat this, if you have open for too long than you can have salmonella, tell me if you broke and egg, and you will have this egg for one week in refrigerator, you will eat this? NO because this is a real egg, not chemical substitute, Jesus you are d**b as...
Polish firefighters make a name for themselves in Europe :)
tbh i respect fire fighters the most from all emergency services, idk why but they are cool (yeah who cares)
I fully agree with you except one thing. Independence Day for Poles is a national holiday and has nothing to do with nationalism, of course there are such cases, but they are also in all countries. On the other hand, the left-wing media pick up such things and make propaganda about what kind of Poles are fascists and you use the copy and paste method to keep duplicating it ... and this is how stereotypes are born.
And the worst is that one can be a far lefist and even receive an applause for it, but being a far right is a complete no. Let's remind the world that far lefists killed far more people in the world than far rights.
Exactly! because celebrating Independence Day with throwing bricks and setting shops or flags on fire is the best way whole polish families can enjoy these kind of events
@@kaspa97 As I assume you are the first person there with a lighter to do so, right?... I mean left?
My favourite polish clothing brand is Diverse. I always find a bunch of shirts, shorts, joggers, jumpers ect. Where any other clothing brands have 2x2 square meter area for a men and 200 square meters for women...
You should have seen Israeli tourists buying out all Ziaja cosmetics they could grab.
"Polish people drink like there's no tomorrow" - i loooove this one
and the next day they go to work as if nothing had happened
No tomorrow means it is Friday ;p
the French used to say : boire comme un polonais
I am Polish, have not been back to mother land for 30 years, but I can tell you one thing: a Polish person will always try to find a solution to any problem, one way or the other, whatever it takes! BWY I love Dominican Republic, I wish I was there right now on the beach DRINKING 😀
O tym właśnie mówi.w filmie: "Kombinować".
Polish landlords rarely try to solve problems.
Poland have changed a lot during 30 years. You will not recognise places you haven known, belive me.
Your videos are always so cheerful, uplifting and to the point: I love them!
Gosh, how I miss Polish cosmetic living in Spain! I always take a face cream from Poland when I go back home from visiting my family. And the alcohol stereotype, well, I'd say there is a lot of truth in it. Not that we drink too often, but we drink in a bulk 😂 On the other hand, NONE of my Polish friends would drink and drive, whereas the Spanish.... Well ...
Anyways J.T., thanks for making me realize how great my country is each time when I watch your video.
I think there is an odd cycle in Poland where everyone compares themselves to the rest of Europe.
Being under Russia for so long meant that poles were not used to making quality things and, seeing how polish people as a whole tend to like to stick to the things that they are good at, seemed to avoid Polish products in precaution of them being worse.
What I really like about a change done recently in Poland is the ‘Produkt Polski’ stickers that encourage poles to enjoy their own produce and helps show countries abroad that Poland is proud of what it makes.
I still remember how excited I got when I was walking around the typical Tesco here in the Uk and found ‘produkt Polski’ candles, lol.
Completely agree 👍
I often go to a cute store in the States that has international stuff and always buy “Made in Poland “ bąbki”, wazy, itp….🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
What I noticed while traveling around the world is that hotels in Poland have a very high standard. You can check into a three-star hotel and feel like you're staying in a five-star hotel.
I'm from Poland myself and traveling made me realize that I live in a rich and beautiful country. I am proud to be born here and happy that people from all over the world want to come here. Thank you for the video.
Growing up as a child of immigrants, 1st generation Polish, the stereotypes were a bit different. What you have said is recent and you are right about them all. Back in my day (60's), the stereotype was the dumb Pollock, the gullible Pole, which is along the same lines, and the dirty Pole who never kept their bodies clean, but their houses were immaculate. Times sure have changed. We know that these that I grew up with, though at times painful to me, were so not true, but I wonder how many folks still remember these and believe that there is some validity to them. Thank you for calling out the bullshit.
You must be an American because the dp stereotype was common to the USA only in the 1970's. It was created and perpetuated by American Hollywood. There was no basis in fact in them. The Polish people have enemies in America, just aware. Those stereotypes died quickly once John Paul II came on the scene.
@@peterj5083 Again, what does this have to do with me being an American?? Yes, I am an American, but I have many Polish values because of how I was raised. These stereotypes were rampant long before the 70's. My parents, my brother, all endured them in the 50's and 60's as did I. You are missing the point that you can be living in one country but hold dear the traits of your heritage.
@@dorothyirby5740 What I am saying is that this was an American phenomenon, that's all. Has nothing to do with you. I am aware that there was anti-Polish immigrant prejudice in America. I am aware of the '70's because that's when I was growing up as a teenager and what I know about those times is the intense amount of bigotry that was spewed our by Hollywood during those times. Remember Archie Bunker?
@@peterj5083 Absolutely, but you keep prefacing your comments with you are an American!! So what?? Yes I am. The conversation started with the certain traits of Polish women, which I have, even though I was raised here in America, by a Polish family. You have gone out on a tangent, and that makes me feel like you are being insulting. Yes, I am a proud American, but I am also a proud Polish descendent. If you wish to cintinue this conversation, please stop leading with that phrase - you are an American. It's very condescending!!
@@dorothyirby5740 You are missing my point. I hope I can clarify. I was merely stating an observation that these stereotypes we're prevalent in the USA and nowhere else. Has nothing to do with you personally as an American. American history has a lot of ugliness to it. Of course, there are many good things and who wants to dwell on the unpleasant aspects of history. Many countries have good and bad histories.
Vigo jak zawsze fajne filmiki robisz i dziękuję za przedstawienie Polski w innym świetle
pozdrawiam
I agree with you, especially on the last point. Every country has its poor and its rich, Poland is no different, but the level of poverty that I have seen in some areas of Canada or the United States, I have not seen in Poland ever, even 22 years ago and I have been all over the country from large cities to small towns and villages. United States is one of the richest country in the world, but it has a growing problem with homelessness that is a lot of greater than in Poland. I am sure that there are some homelessness people too, but I have not seen them on the streets begging, lying on the streets and howling in Warsaw, the way I see them in Toronto. And I have been to Poland last month. I would even say that an average person in Poland has a higher standard of living than an average person in Canada.
Having watched lots on poverty in US I can honestly tell that what is poverty in US does not exist in Poland anymore, long since XIX century. Even the poorest families in Poland have better access to safe drinking water, medical and dental services than poor families in US or UK.
Agree!! Greetings from Mississauga!
I live in a city about 250000 citizen. There are 2 homeless shelters full in winter, that is less than a 80 people, plus of course those who do not go there (mostly because you cannot drink there). I do not think it is a lot.
I am a big outdoor fan, I have visited many Scandinavian countries, I even went camping in Iceland and I buy a lot of trekking clothes. Last summer I found out that our Polish company 4f is better in terms of quality than the north face . It is at least half the price, and the products destroy the competition in terms of quality and practicality. We have reasons to be proud, for me 4f is one of them.
Yo JT i really love what you're doing and really appreciate your perspective! Keep up the good work! Best regards!
"Polska dla Polaków" means Poland for Poles and it comes from the time when being Polish was a state of mind, not racial/national thing. People from many nations were proud Polish citizens and millions of foreigners wanted to be Polish at that time. Our patriotism comes from our history and has not much to do with hooligans but usually hooligans are also patriots like in most of countries. Independence Day in Warsaw is very positive, highly patriotic day for us. Pictures you shown are just some extreme shots, very hard to spot in reality. You have just repeated what we can hear about Independence day in some of our leftish, anti-polish mainstream media. This demonstration is very peaceful. Why you didn't show pictures of families, kids, war veterans, eldery people or those who wear a historic uniforms? Your number 3 is totally wrong. Come and see our Independence day in person to verify all bullshit you said about it.
Nie obsraj się XD
@@michaszuster Stul gebe kiedy dorosli rozmawiaja!
@@garysmith7760 Zapiekła dupa?
I agree 100%. A foggy autumn evening. A large number of marching Poles, families, elderly people, young people. There will be a group of “over-dimensioned. ” This is the case all over the world, but it is a distorted picture of the celebrations of our INLENGTHMARCH. There is a purpose to portray every positive thing we have in the world as false, disgusting, disgusting. Somewhere, someone on the outside has that goal. But we will fight for a real message about Poland.
ua-cam.com/play/PLOge6UoyxZrHbeh8imQbS6rTbD9G2MI58.html we have many super Polish people's of mamy races and religions and still we don't accept those who don't love Poland. And they all Polish people's were also on this march what leftists don't likes and show this how they wanted to show this. That's all
Awesome video. I can not believe how good your observations are :D You seem so geniuine
I loved how the statistic you showed totally proved Poland is so not what other countries make it look like, especially the drinking. My husband is Polish, he will not drink. He drank his grandpas Wodka at 13years old, and vomited the whole night😂. However, we were at a Party here in Germany, weird and proud ppl (our neighbors unfortunately) with a 'home-made' alcoholic beverage. Never again! I felt different after a single zip, had to hold on to the table after a few minutes. Never had a experienced this (never had alcohol before). My husband got a whole bottle and was challenged and made fun of as the Polish guy, he was, if he could handle it. He drank his bottle, and my glas, and was the only one sober when we left. Also he didn't have any weird symptoms in the morning as all the neighbors, nobody knows how he did it, neither I, he made sure I was okay and walked the dog. I guess it is just ppl that envy the Poles how well they can handle alcohol. My German body def. won't, when I see my collegues and our neighbours, definitely not either! Thank you for cleaning up the stereotypes. I hate it. Germans make jokes about their cars to be found in Poland if they can't see it right away. The crime numbers are much less in Poland than here, still they keep the nonsense and pass it on. My husband won't even cross a red light😂 he would never do wrong things intentionally.
Maksymilian Faktorowicz born in Zdunska Wola, Poland. Emigrated to USA and started there well known Max Factor cosmetics company. Also eyelash mascara creator.
Kombinować in practice:
1. The government has banned trading on Sunday - with a few exceptions: - supermarkets open courier points
1.1 The government changes the law - supermarkets open a mini-library and reader clubs
1.2 The government changes the law - supermarkets open medical points
1.3 The government changes the law - again - Markets are opening a sports equipment rental
2. The government is increasing the tax on small alcohol bottles - producers make slightly larger bottles
3. Heating boilers must have classifications - buy stickers in the online store
4. You are a politician and you have to submit a financial declaration, but did you steal a little? - transfer all property to your wife
the last one is pure theft.
First time watching your channel Polish stereotypes I enjoyed it so I subscribed
We've always had difficult history - but as you said - try and start conversation with us Poles - you'll be surprised how good and friendly we are toward foreigners. I hosted few myself when I had my flat in Biala Podlaska. An American from San Diego, a guy from St. Petersburg, few lads from Minsk and few from Kobryn. We like all people as long as they're fair to us. We open our hearts to everybody - after a little while that is 🙂
Lovely video. Thank you for your curiosity and your heart for people and culture that I got born among♥️
don't agree about getting shitfaced - it's a big no-no to drink to point of cutoff. You will be ridiculed and laughed at if you do so. It means you cannot handle alcohol. The point is to drink a lot at one sitting and still feel ok and know where to stop.
Polacy generalnie nie wiedzą kiedy przestać pić
@@piechur83 porownujac do innych krajow - nie zgodze sie. W Polsce jest mala szansa na doswiadcznie iscie dantejskich scen dziejacych sie weekendami np. w UK czy Irlandii.
@@GdzieJestNemo Dantesque 🤣
Vigo! I really like your way of presenting each topic. Honest, open minded with good sense of humor. And I agree with you 99%.....ooo ...ok...100%. Serdecznie pozdrawiam.
Pai! When I was in Poland I wanted a sweatsuit from Reserve pero never found my size! Bueno my European size porque sizes run different out there. Can’t wait to go back next year.
"a little bit of complaining" - love it :D pozdrawiam serdecznie! Glad you came here those 10ys ago. Keep up the good work, Bro! Spread the word :)
I was wondering about the introduction: that the recent event in Ukraine create an interest in visiting Poland. I just heard other news: that international tourism to Poland suffers from the war and numbers from international tourists are down by 50%. If justified or not, obviously some tourists think Poland is "too close" to the war.
some do, but many are very interested in visiting and seeing the country and the people because of how well Polish people have treated Ukrainians
@@VigosDad Of course, it is not rational, still it is problem for tourism. I watch an interview, where say mentioned that the idea of "a refugee crises" made people change their travel plans.
From someone running a tourism company in Germany and Poland: international tourism in Poland is in big trouble, people irrationallly have the war on their mind unfortunately, whereas in Germany it’s booming. But indeed, when the war is won by Ukraine I am sure that the current PR and positive exposure that Poland is gaining, is gonna help PL bounce back in this regard double next years.
@@tomekdarda "when the war is won by Ukraine..." Eh?
@@tomekdarda...War won by Ukraine...??...you must be joking... :D
I jak tu Ciebie nie lubić? Szanuję Cię za bycie honorowym ambasadorem Polski. Pozdrawiam z memicznego Wejherowa.
Serio nie znam żadnego mema z Wejherowa. Wygląda to na stereotyp ;)
@@gbplus747 Zdaje się, że nie mieszkasz w Trójmieście. Tutaj Wejherowo ma solidnie wypracowaną markę XD
Jedno z lepszych co słyszałem to "W Gdyni mieszkania są tańsze od 3 piętra w górę, dlatego, że widać Wejherowo".
Mam nadzieję, że pomogłem. Osobiście nie mam nic do Wejherowa, ale takie teksty są w sumie śmieszne.
Pozdrawiam.
@@warakn dobrze piszesz. Zobacz mem „lody o smaku Wejherowo”. To mnie rozwaliło najbardziej.
Mieszkam w Wejherowie już 14 lat ale bawi mnie to niezmiennie.
W Gdyni mieszkałem 28 lat. Większość czasu na 4 piętrze, ale Wejherowa nie było widać 😂
Pozdrawiam Trójmiasto!
@@wojstube9359 Mam spoko ale można go zrobić w każdym mieście, bo wszędzie tak jest zimą.
Thank you for making this video, to dispel many myths were people to this day think Poland is stuck i the late’70s-Early ‘80s. RESERVED is my favourite fashion brand . Bought clothes from their store 5 yrs ago, and with a certain line of shirts s & zip up jacket they had, it looked like it was coming out of the same Turkish factory as SuperDry was at the same time, it was the quality of the fabric that looked identical, with one or two styling questions which mimicked SuperDry. They also own other fast fashion aimed at teenagers called Cropp & House. They also opened up their first UK store on Oxford in London.
Jako Polak od urodzenia powiem , ze Twoje spostrzezenia sa idealnie prawdziwe. Kraj który ma ponad 1.000 lat, który brał udział we wszystkich wojnach głównie jako kraj rabowany przez Ruskich, Niemcówe, Szwedów,Austriaków, Szwajcarów....i Polaków ;) nadal trwa i radzi sobie dzielnie. Dzięki Polakom i Solidarności rozpadł się KOMUNIZM i ruski mir. To chyba o czymś świadczy kim jestesmy jako naród.
Thank you 😊 sending love to you, your family , polish peoples and all people around… it’s pleasing to listen to you 😀❤
I leave in NY but Poland is my country..I was there in July..
oh boy..it is beatifull ! Very very clean .. friendly people ..welcoming..I am so proud to be polish ..thank you for so many complements..🥰
Hello Vigo’s Dad😀 I’m Polish living currently in UK 🇬🇧. I want to thank you for your way of describing Poland to foreigners and how you advertising our culture, our pro’s and our con’s. You mentioned Ziaja as a beauty products- I confirm- it is very good line of products, we as a Poles really have nothing to be ashamed of. As many times I’m coming to Krakow as many times I’m buying Polish skin care products as they are really good.
Once again thank you for your insight and your kind words.
Wish you all the best hoping that Vigo will become like his dad😊🥰🥰🥰
Poland is an amazing country and true patriots never would say anything bad about Poland. Polish people used to drink more during the communism. But, yes we drink for every occasions but we like also dance and have a good food. "scammers" - this is a result from the communism too, because we had to "kombinowac" always, there never was a strait way to do anything. In Poland there is nothing what is impossible, there is always the way. I love Poland, it is the most beautiful country in the world and in general there are living a good people with empathy for others suffering.
Hi, thanks for many kind words about Poland. I'm Polish and it's always amazing to hear foreigners who's got so many insights about Poland. For most people Poland is known from The Witcher, Lewandowski, and John Paul II only.
Since I'm a Pole, I can refer to all you mentioned in the video:
1) I've never heard this stereotype, really, not a single time. Although being in western Europe I heard quite many times that Poles are believed to be hard working people (which makes sense because we used to go abroad to earn as much as possible and then get back with the money and buy an apartment or a car). I worked abroad too, I took as many overhours as possible :D
2) You described that well. If there are two types of people - peach and coconut - we are the coconut. It's not easy to make a friend, but if you do, it will be BFF. On the other hand, Americans for example are peach people - very easy to start with, but quite hard to go further at some point.
3) This one deserve a longer comment but let me make it short. Polish nationalism is hyped by media and it's totally overhyped. E.g. if a Polish guy crashes a front glass of a Polish pub, no one will talk about that. If a Polish guy crashes a front glass from Turkish kebab bar, all media across the country write about dangerous Polish nationalism. This is in order to make the society polarized, conflicted, and weak when dealing with government and authorities in general. Especially the independence day walk used to be presented in media totally manipulated. I don't know a single nationalist and I don't know anyone who said he knew one. I'd rather say that Poles comparing to other nations are not very "commited" to their nationality, not very patriotic, and a lot of Poles despise (don't respect) their own nationality, which is fueled by media, which in most cases are not Polish (most media in Poland are foreign capital). Summing it up, it's of course, as you said, not black&white in Poland, but there are much more people in Poland, who manifestes anti-nationalism than nationalism itself.
4) Well described. In Poland in most cases we don't drink during the day (there's no culture of drinking a wine for a lunch or dinner) and in many cases Poles don't even drink on working days, but when partying, especially on evening saturdays, we drink like mad, accepting the hangover next day. It can be sometimes sort of a competition - who can drink more. We used to say that only Russians can drink more. I didn't know that the avarage alcohol consumption is that bigger in Germany (according to the statistic you gave). Germans are quite offten surprised how much we drink during parties.
5) Polish scamers. Yes and no. That is truth, that when you buy a car a seller may not tell you that it was crashed and fixed, and when you discover that the seller will act like surprised. When I was young I used to believe that we Polish people together with Russian and Ukrainians are worst scammers in the world until I started traveling and discovered that in Asia (Thailand, India, China), Africa (Egypt, Tunisia) or in some cases South America it used to be much, much worse. You may be cheated in Poland when buying used goods (i.e. unless you ask you may be not informed about item's flaws), but it's not like each cab driver wants to fu..k you, which I experienced abroad.
6) Low quality Polish product was truth 30 years ago. Currently in each market segment you can buy Polish products which used to be very good or even top notch quality, but the prices are also comperable with high quality foreign equivalents (e.g. German products). 30 years ago we used to say "it's good because it's from west". Young generation is more and more into Polish products, and buying Polish products from luxurious microbrands is sort of trendy if you can afford it.
7) That was true 20 years ago. Currently it's like you described. It's best to compare how people live, in what restaurants they eat, what cars they have, houses, clothing, and what vacation they go for.
PS - are you Dominican..? Your English is great.
3:16 you are half right here, half amount of people i see when i am somewhere outside are tall or taller than me (words from 185+cm tall guy) and other half is people nearly as tall as me, not every person i see is 160 or something but there are shorter people too, mainly its the younger generations that are the tall part here because its mainly people who just started their life (aka 18-20yo's)
Also yeah, I am very proud to be Polish, one of things I am most proud of
Go to Zimna Wódka, Sworne Gacie, Mała Wieś Przy Drodze, Paryż, idk what else
The stereotype that we like to drink lots cones from ages ago. Long story short back in the day, when people would drink water they would often get sick. However, what Poles discovered was that drinking lager/beer didn't have that effect. Bear in mind the golden drink was very week back then (about 2%) hence other nations were thinking that we drink huge amount of alcohol.
On no. 3. As a Pole, I must say that it's a bit more complicated. We have a kind of love-hate relationship with our country. You know well about our "marudzenie". Not understanding our relationship with Poland seems to have something to do with it. You will find it in every Pole. This should be remembered especially when we are talking about our country.
The funny thing is that when you, as a foreigner, speak badly about our country, even if we have complained about it a moment ago, we will immediately defend it.
As I said, it's complicated.
Believe me, the meaning of the word "complaining" is not even close to the true Polish meaning of "marudzenie".
AND HEY! In no. 5. In "12:12". This is KOFLA. It's a Czech product. It's still in the market there. And it's better than in the US.
I love your work. Keep it up.
Greetings from Kraków!
Yes polish people are good in manual labour and they can fix everything but there is a lot of people who have different skills. They are not very friendly on the outside. Nowadays they don't drink as much, a lot of people were alcoholics back in the 90's. Polish people are very cheeky but it depends from a person, especially how were they raised. It used to b one of the poorest countries in Europe. Now it is one of the best in central eastern Europe
Amazing video. Thanks 👍
9:12 not really scammers but more we like to contrive for our convenience and there even is a story about a polish man which lived in german ouccupied part of Poland and it was forbidden for poles to live in houses so he buyed a cart and he lived in it, and every day changed the place so he could stay in his town.
We like to drink a lot but we are also highly resistant to alcohol and poisons - I can drink 10 beers or more and go to bed at 2 AM and wake up at 6-7 AM without any hangover and full of energy.
Hello! great observations again!! just 2 things from my end. First on when tech companies come here for cheap labour, its not true, programmers , developers, Managers etc i know they have a very good package offered to them. Second i love Polish products, they are made well, i often buy tools made in Poland and never had problems, I just don`t like the quality of their pasta and im sorry but the tomato paste i must say is quite horrible, and i had Polish say that to me after trying good made ones.😄
3:54 i think the biggest thing in breaking the tourist vs local barier is showing them that you know *some* words in polish, it doesnt have to be full on sentences but you show them this way that you care about their language and culture :]
Yeah, same for French.
Rzgów mnie rozwalił XD Są też miejscowości takie jak Młode Rumunki, Zimna Wódka czy Moszna i wiele, wiele innych ciekawych :D
Dorzucam Sworne Gacie ;)
@@chmarski9995 haha, tak. Byłem, polecam. Tylko to się chyba łącznie pisze?
niedaloko mam Gać.. i pamiętam jak na trybunach jakiejs halówki krzyczeli my.. "Chociarz macie w kratke Gacie to z Bystrzycą nigdy nie wygracie" :P
Mnie rozśmieszył i zasmucił jednocześnie - Pozdrawiam z miasta Łodzi
Nationalism in every country has a different background, pro tip: the history of Poland and its experiences. Hooliganism is a separate issue, hooliganism is cretinism and thuggery, and the fact that someone shouts a patriotic slogan on occasion is a form of justification for the action.
I like this guy, nice marketing for Poland, like watching him a lot :)
@Vigo, looks like you have a vague idea about the Independence Day in Warsaw. I don't think you've seen a lot of it youself...
Good this way! A good video about Poland! As for alcohol consumption. So everyone in the Soviet-occupied countries drugged themselves with alcohol to endure Communism. Although in the Soviet Union alcohol was also used to endure the Soviet system. In Poland, young people no longer consume as much alcohol as it used to in order to endure the communist misery. Thank you Germany for the Soviet occupation!
i am suprised how you pronaunce Rzgów :) ...good observations - usually people with outside experience see better what insiders do not see :) Good job.
when i was working abroad, i lived with three other polish for a couple of years at the 2000's. All of em heavy workers, two of em alcoholics, all very heavy workers, two of em (the olders) hated leftist to death and rusian above all (they were in their 30's), all of em loved their families and poland, but insulted it almost as much. They all loved the USA as a hollyland, not just rich. I met some other family of em, that came for a few days, more normal in the drink department, but all talked sxxt about poland even if it was his sweethome, adored USA and hated rusians. OH, all of em used kurva at least every ten seconds. They were good people who tryed to help and teach me all the time and very generous with what little they had, but a bit homofobic with a gay flatmate (not just a bit....). I'm from spain and the story is from a time i lived in UK.
Many things has changed from 2000, it was 22 years ago :)
Thanks for the story
Complaining about our country is a part of the small talk. Instead of talking about weather, we rather bitch about inflation, low wages, thieves in the government etc. But its for people who are not great with their people skills and have usually nothing interesting to say so to not be silent they complain. About that right wing ideology, there is a trend for some years already, to wear clothes with polish patriotic slogans. Personally i see it as just a justification of aggression, people wearing these tend towards to (hooligan type). We are heavy drinkers, there is an alcoholism problem in the society, but during my lifetime (36yo) i noticed culture of drinking became more pushed out of our way of life,(not cool anymore). Lots of these stereotypes come from 20th century and are not relevant anymore. As for shady people, you just have to trust your guts! Petty crime is out there but its generally safe to go anywhere anytime. Honestly i think Poland in the next 20 years will become the leader of Europe, seeing as how fast things are changing! Great content as usual, thanks VD!
Great work! Thank you very much from my polish heart!
when it comes to "hatred" of Poland from Poles, it's a love and hate relationship most Poles love their country more than life BUT they hate what is happening to Poland at the moment and what a circus Polish politics is. I know something about it, after all, I am Polish myself
I love your Kanał 😲 Mówię i piszę po angielsku lecz tutaj nie będę się produkował bo jednak mówię lepiej niż piszę ! Zgadzam się z twoimi spostrzeżeniami i nawet rozumię sens twojego pasjonowania się polską ....... po prostu warto 😎 Keep doing what You do because You have done so well so far! Greetings from Manchester 😬
I'm from Poland and i stumbled on to you're video. I found it very entertaining.
From where did you get you're knowledge of Poland? I'm think it is very insightful.
R u in SA? Just asking, hugs from Florida from Asia
While travelling through some western Europe countries I noticed that we are also advanced in case of paying by card. In Poland you can pay by card practically everywhere even in really small shops since many years. Meanwhile in Italy 2019 I went into the shop on one of the main streat in tourist village and I couldn’t pay by card. It wasn’t a single case in that country. In Netherlands I desperately paid 3,5€ provision in ATM because in some places (maybe coffeshop lol) in Amsterdam evening I couldn’t pay by card. I also managed to get into the shop that was accepting cards but no Visa nor Mastercard. I really was like „how these people live like in the freaking forest”.
As a Pole, I can confirm. We do like cashless payments very much. We even have a government program called "Cashless Poland" which encourages businesses to use payment terminals for free for a year and without commission up to 100k PLN (22k EUR) income.
Also, Poland has a high level of digitization with BLIK technology (instant money transfer from a bank account to another account using a phone number), fast and limitless internet, e-prescriptions, and android/iOS government app with e-documents like ID card, driver's license etc. Last month our parliament enacted a law that equals the legal status of physical documents and e-documents, meaning we can identify with our e-documents in office or during police control haha :D
Klok hermano! czesc ! kocham twoje filmy. bardzo dobrze! Greetings from Germany
i think a lot of tourists get scammed because they don't have street smarts.
The most important thing you can say as a tourist is sorry i don't have money.
"przepraszam nie mam pieniędzy" :D
The problem is Multiculti crates more problems look at USA , France, England etc. and why Asia for Asians is ok Africa for Africans is ok but Poland for Polish not ok. Why all western countries have to be multiculti ? We want to be like Japan they do not like foreigners moving in and no body complains about them. We like to preserve our culture and small migrant population is ok. But we do not want to be overrun and loose our identity. Whats wrong with that.
I very much liked that video, Im polish but live here juest for 16 years, before I lived in Kuwait, USA and Canada, there is a significant difference in wealth (your last point) here is an example brand new Toyota Corolla in USA costs about 18 - 22k USD where living and working legally in USA as a Law clerk I made $3500 a month, buying a new car with 0% intrest at a dealership was a breeze, now in 2022 I'm an IT specialist making about 7000zł which is a decent pay, new corolla cost about 90k zł, given cost of living there is no way in hell I can afford to but a car like that, not to mention SUVs or more sporty cars for over 150k zł, there is a huge gap between ppl who can afford to go for a lunch to a restaurant, rent an apparment or go for vacation but are denied certain items deemend luxury like cars or even good computer hardware, new gaming laptop? 6000zł, iPhone 7500zł its either I buy it and no eat or pay rent or go without it. A 40 square meter apartmet, so single bedroom with jointed kitchen is half a million zł, with good credit rating alone I'll pay it off in 40 years where in USA with similar job I can buy a house in NY or NJ. Cost of food and gas is also much higher. Only alcohol remains cheap, good old bread and games philosophy. So for you its cheap, with 4 to 1 conversion factor your sallary makes the poorest american a wealthy foringer in poland, there as whats concidered a middle class citizen cannot afford "nice things"
Congratulations, you are very rare person learning and looking for balanced, true opunions!
Hi, You do a better advert about the country than Polish politicians do. Hope you enjoy visiting Poland.
Just got back from Poland for the third time (Polska Zona), and agree totally with you, and as far as wealth goes, I have never seen so many top end cars in my life. There is some serious money in Poland
"Polska dla Polaków, Polacy dla Polski" jest pięknym hasłem. 🇵🇱❤️
Ludzie są przewrażliwieni, albo wprost - są antypolscy, jeśli tego typu hasło uważają za "ekstremizm" czy "faszyzm"... W końcu nie jest tutaj napisane "Polska tylko dla Polaków". Może mało się bujam po kraju, ale nigdy nie spotkałem się osobiście z nieuzasadnioną napaścią na obcokrajowca. Ludzie w Polsce mogą między sobą mówić o "czarnuchach", "szkopach", "kacapach" etc., ale jeśli ten obcokrajowiec jest normalnym, szanującym ludzi i miejsce, w którym się aktualnie znajduje, człowiekiem, to z takim samym szacunkiem będzie traktowany przez nas. Co więcej, taki obcokrajowiec może też być traktowany jako Polak - vide autor filmiku!
A Polki dla Turków...
@@MrWindsor289 poza tym polakow mamy roznych.
Lecz Polska dla Polaków ziemia dla ziemniaków. Jeszcze lepszym.
Like the Chanel,honest and truth.By the way it's not very known that many products people eat in Europe are produced,grown or made in Poland and on the label said product of EU or made in any country where you buy those product.So people really doesn't know that they using or eating Polish made product's.
I have to say..my partner is polish,we have lived together 15 years,in uk and also New Zealand my home country.We after so long are now back in Poland over six months staying with family here.To be honest..we are finding it quite hard with the polish mentality.Its seems so many pols like to live in a world of melancholy.Meaning they love to look miserable,make life out to be so hard.I don't see people sleeping on the streets?I see a lot of people inherit homes.Go to the supermarket fill the trolley with great food at cheap prices etc.We love New Zealand...but it is becoming far to exspensive to live there for most things.The lifestyle is amazing,not many people like Europe.People smile,high five each other,friendly to tourist etc.Life is much easier in poland the people should be more happy.
I live in Poland my whole life. I feel like the mindset that Poland sucks is becoming a common thing among my generation (I'm 30 years old), and even more among the younger generation... Kids at schools already plan to migrate once they graduate.
The heavy drinking is not just a stereotype. In the past, it was actual truth. About 20-30 years ago for sure. It's just that starting with my generation, we have better things to do with friends than drinking + there are more drivers per party. Vodka is becoming something in the way of a good party if overused.
I never expected we had the stereotype of being scammers. No idea where that came from. Knowing how to get what you need, have nothing to do with scamming someone.
Witam . Chętnie podyskutuję w tematach dlaczego Polacy musieliby przepraszać! Bardzo fajne materiały, pozdrawiam.👍
Something is good and something is not like every country.
It depends a lot from the point of view and life experience: if we assume most of people from a foreign country will lend on miasto like Warszawa, Kraków, Gdansk and so on.
But Poland is not only inside big cities and the base of polish economy system is exactly based on countryside production. Without that the polish economical system will collapse and this is one of the reason why the nation can't meet some european union standard.
Only good at manual labor: not true but polish people have a great knowledge of every manual labour (especially people from a small gmina). The reasons are multiple: lack of some professional figures in little towns and lack of money (people must understand that there's a big difference in the nation about work compensation inside a city and inside a town: same job, same hours, same rules but you will probably get the minimum salary in a gmina 2800zł ca.). If we calculate about the need to have a car, insurance and (most of people in a gmina can't afford another private healthcare insurance) we can easily understand causes/consequences.
In Poland this difference about salary is normal (in most of other european countries you will get the sama salary and it isn't affected by the location/where are you working). It will be drastically different if you will get a job in Warsaw for 2700zł (and it's obvious that most of foreigners will not come in Poland to work for such salary).
Most of polish memes about manual labour are about one person work when the other co-workers watch him.
They are not friendly: polish are really generous people always ready to help as they can usually. They are curious about other countries cultures but also very nationalist and linked to their traditions and history. Only polish can complain about poland.
Drink culture: not so different of other countries, you will get less experience about drunk people in a miasto (thanks to the police and well, it will be hard to spot people drink normally because in Poland is forbidden to drink outside places as pub/club/restaurant/cafeteria etc...).
In a town is easy to go in the morning to the local shop and find already people changing the empty bottles for full ones, buy 100ml Wódka and drink it in one shot.
But as i said, not so much different from some other countries
They are scammers: never meet a scammer in Poland.
Polish product low quality: i don't think so but depends of the kind of products we are analyzing.
Poland is poor: as i mentioned about the first topic. There's a big difference between city and towns. Big polish brands (if they don't need a multi-national support) usually build their facilities outside the cities (less expenses about workers, cheap price of final product.
The internal economy is based on the countryside production (primary products and material for food industries) and to use the big cities for multi-national brands (easily you will get all the extras like big american brands: gym card, private healthcare insurance, normal/standard european salary).
Witaj w Polsce!
11:29 in 70s and 80s Polish products were considered very high quality in other communist states, they were just shit by design as they were designed by soviets. They improved what they could but if a design is bad it will be bad even with the best quality
Pamiętam, jak w starym telewizorze Sony /lata 80/ znalazłem głośniki z Tonsila.
5:18 I'm nationalist and I'm proud.of it. I was on Independence March many times and it was awesome. 🇵🇱❤️ You just don't understand of polish nationalism. Please read more about Roman Dmowski, who is a hero,he was a "father" of polish nationalism. Don't trust leftist propaganda.
JT they should just give you a Polish passport. Your love of Poland is truly inspiring and warm on the heart, I think you appreciate Poland more than some of us Polish people 🤔😜
Much love to you and the Familia
Love you videos!!!
I am disappointed about point 3, where you are mixing up nationalism, patriotism, and Poland Independence Day with hooligan. Being proud of being Polish is important and beautiful - without that, Poland would not exist today, as they was not on the map for 123 years.
I agree that there are some elements of extremist, as in any country, BUT mixing this up with picture from Poland’s Independence Day, is like you would talk about KKK and show pictures from 4 of July parade in USA!
I didn’t say that people that celebrate independence day are hooligans but that there are hooligans that use that day to express their extreme views through the use of verbal and physical violence which is true and the proof is out there in the many videos that surface year after year on this day.
@@VigosDad you are connecting nationalism with hooliganism, which is completely wrong, and you add to that Independence Day. Hooliganism relates to football, patriotism and nationalism is something good, and positive. Cherry picking from Independence Day some few, extreme bad elements create a bad visualization of the WHOLE Independence Day. A lot of foreign media tries to trash down Poland and their way of celebrating and being proud of becoming independent. Poland for Poles is like saying - we are Poles, we don’t want Germans or Russians occupying us again. It doesn’t mean we hate other people.
Nevertheless, I just wanted to point out one thing that I disagree with you about, and think is wrong. Otherwise, Good Job 😊
I don’t think I connected those things I just pointed out a group of people that precisely come out to try and ruin that day. They use that date specifically to express their retrograde views. if they used other dates to pull their shenanigans i would point those dates too. I am not trying to associate PL independence day with hooliganism, but to point out how these ppl do those things on that day.
@@VigosDad sure, ok - I understand - but I interpreted differently, no problem - communication is hard and it doesn't always "land" as we wanted. . :-) I appreciate your response, Dzieki!
btw it’s also ok to disagree. I just wanted to clarify what I meant. poz!
try argue with us for example ; family meeting on grandmathers hause like CIOCIA BIRTHDAY after few shots (not bottles) of vodka😅
Is your accent Dominican? In my ignorance I think you sound very Polish.
Cd projekt, and one of their games - Witcher 3 (considered one of the best rpg games in the world) is a polish company. It proofs your points about polish things not being only poor quality, and polish people being only good at manual labor.
Scamming is profound in Polish diaspora, especially prominent in the USA. People who are established and run business often take advantage of newly arrived people. It is almost proverbial in the US not to work for another Pole.
Love your work.
About this alcohol I would say not the most alcohol in general but the most of heavy (high%) alcohol-in germany people are drinking a lot of beers, also those information can't include crazy amount of home made alcohol :)
It really has to do with cheap labor. As you can see Russia and Poland are on that list it is like 3 dollars an hour. If Poland were to ever join the euro it would be over for Poland. There debt would climb to 2 trillion and they could not make it.
To Polish brand list and industrial products: PESA Bydgoszcz and NEWAG - two of the best producers of railway vehicles in Europe. NEWAG 6dg is the first really HYBRID locomotive in the world. It has a 30 litre V8 electric power generator from American Caterpillar consuming only 1,7 litre of oil per hour and can switch to fully electric battery ride when necessary, for example in no fire zones, where both diesel and electric locomotives are forbidden due to spark risk when the pantograph loses touch with traction line on wind. NEWAG 6dg can be also ordered with both batteries and pantograph for unlimited power preserve possibilities.
You are amazing... I am Polish but I think you love my country more than me!
Jak każdy naród mamy swoje wady i zalety. Mieszkają tutaj super dobrzy ludzie i chamidła oraz złodzieje. Ja tam staram się chwalić nasz kraj. W bardzo krótkim czasie przeszliśmy bardzo długą drogę. Mam niespełna 40lat, pamiętam jeszcze kartki. Pamiętam jak się śliniłam przed witrynami Pewexu bo były tam zabawki o których mogłam tylko śnić. Teraz te same zabawki są w zasięgu ręki i jestem w stanie kupić je mojemu dziecku (oczywiście nie wszystko i nie od razu, ale coś na pewno). Ludzie nie dostrzegają ogromu postępu jaki mamy. Teraz fakt, są ciężkie czasy, ale czasy się zmienią i będzie lepiej :D
You got it wrong my friend. Polska dla Polaków, this quote does not mean ''Poland sucks''. This quote is addressed to politicians who think that we are there for them and not they for us. They want us to work as long as we can and as hard as we can while paying huge taxes that are constantly increasing. The independence march is a tradition that they want to ban because people come out with banners talking about the theft that politicians are committing. People don't agree with this. POLSKA Dla Polaków - Poland For Poles don't mean that we are racists and do not like other nationalities. it is directed at the government which supposedly gives us something but in fact only takes away and wants more. We don't want government to give us anything, we want them to stop taking from us and we will be fine. Poles are proud of their own country and love this country more than life itself. I'll say in advance that my English isn't the best, but I hope that if someone reads this, they'll understand what I mean.