MareGaea: Poles tend to drink more alcohol than other ppls
Wrong yet again according to Forbs overall Europeans rank as the world's biggest drinkers. In terms of annual per capita consumption of liters of pure alcohol.
Luxembourg, where residents pound down 15.5 liters of alcohol in a year, on average, ranks first. Close behind are France (14.2 liters), Ireland (also 14.2 liters, a lot more of it from beer), Hungary (12 liters) and the Czech Republic (11.8 liters).
MareGaea: complain more about the past, prefer their own kind above others
I would have to disagree with you on this one, There is one other that fits this description to a tee.
MareGaea: are behind the rest of Europe in terms of tolerance, equality and other things we have been fighting for over the past decades/centuries.
Let's see how Dutch fair in that tolerance, equality over the past decades. I believe that the guest workers program started in 1950's in Netherlands. When the Dutch finally realized that the migration that was perceived as temporary turned out to be permanent you started to organize new political parties by the late 90's with an anti immigration theme blaming all the ills of your society on the Muslims. Dutch politicians such as Fortuyn called Islam a backward culture seeing that they simply do not integrate into the fabric of Dutch society. Although you might think that you are evolved and tolerant, that you achieved some kind of balance and try to spread the massage of multiculturalism, the fact is that the rift and discourse between the Muslims and the rest of Dutch population grows with each year passing. Isn't harmony and tolerance a measure on how evolved, tolerant, advanced and sophisticated any given culture is? I'm sorry but I fail to see that in Dutch society, just because you tolerate homosexuality and drug use? which in itself is not necessarily a good thing either. It's not a measure of tolerance and sophistication but a passing trend rather like a hippy movement.
Didn't you just have Utrecht Riots and Moroccan-Dutch youth riots? Show me the last time there were race riots in Poland. Tensions are flying high, incompatibility between the two fractions in you society are great and far from resolved. The way I see it, in the past 50 years or so the Dutch have not evolved or mature as a nation but regressed to even lower level than it was in a pre-war period. I for one do not believe in multiculturalism, and if that makes me intolerant or not advanced enough for you so be it. My opinion stems from my observation of the so called advanced western societies and I see that this model simply dose not work because cultural differences are huge, you have no right to pass judgement on us in light of what's going on in your country. When you finally achieve that utopian dream of yours then and only then you can preach this massage of yours, after all seeing is believing. Looks like you still have a long way to go and a long road ahead of you.
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