Was Daniel Fahrenheit a Pole?

PennBoyThreads: 157 Posts: 3,442 Joined: Dec 7, 08 ♂	Feb 17, 11, 02:40 #121
Bratwurst Boy: Okay...takes notes BB tisk tisk you didn't know what Dodge was? American expression like" I don't think we're in Kansas anymore"

Bratwurst BoyThreads: 11 Posts: 14,563 Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂	Feb 17, 11, 02:46 #122
PennBoy: BB tisk tisk you didn't know what Dodge was? American expression like" I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" hangs head in shame

PennBoyThreads: 157 Posts: 3,442 Joined: Dec 7, 08 ♂	Feb 17, 11, 02:51 #123
Bratwurst Boy: hangs head in shame It's alright, put your head back up you're Aryan for Christ's sake :-)

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Feb 17, 11, 05:53 #124

Mr Grunwald:

You take that back! The Germans insisted that my family were Germans as they derived from "Schultz" (They wrote it Szulc) but they said: "NO! We are Poles!" :)
So don't come here and tell me no Germans wanted to feel Polish! Lies!

Mr Grunwald:

Utter BS! My family is quite a good example of en "pre-German" family that became Polish! Why do you think so many Poles have German surnames? Hmm? Is it becaouse they thought of it as a trend? COME ON!

So Grunwald you are an ethnic German?

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Edited by: Ziemowit Feb 17, 11, 09:57 #125

I just wonder if one's heritage could be felt "subconsciously" by one's "genes"? An intetersting story story was told on TV some time ago by Jerzy Stuhr, a famous Polish actor of Austrian origin. He said he had always felt inside him a strange affinity to a place in Austria which he used to pass several times on his trips to Italy. And he discovered only later on that it was precisely a place where his Austrians ancestors originated from!!!

Quite recently I have discovered ancestors of my own bearing a "Latin" surname and German first names [one was Gottlieb and another was Gotfried] in the act of a birth of 1794; the surname was later polonized, however, and to the effect that the whole family have always asked themselves "what the bloody hell does this surname come from?". The act was written in Mazovia, so those people must have come in there from somewhere else. Should my somewhat "strange" interest in the past of the Silesia region before 1945 direct me "subconsciously" to the forgotten heritage of my family on the mother's side perhaps?

Bratwurst BoyThreads: 11 Posts: 14,563 Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂	Feb 17, 11, 10:05 #126
Definitely! :)

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Edited by: hague1cmaeron Feb 17, 11, 12:02 #127

PennBoy:

Poles are a proud people we are proud to be Polish, we're proud to be Slavs your problem is BB that you believe we want to be like you we really don't,I know Poles who are rich and have no reason to wish they're German and still point out Germans bad manners, girls "beauty", rudeness and other things.

That is not a good example of Poles though.

Des Essientes:

Nietzsche's circumstance was that he felt soceities with a strong independent aristocracy were superior and he thus he admired the szlachta and their refusal to submit to autocracy. The German aristocracy had submitted to autocracy and Germany's strongest class was its middle class and Nietzsche despised the paltry middle class virtues of hard work and obedience to authority and in this he was truly Polish. I feel many Polish-Americans on this forum respect productivity and efficiency more than the finer things in life like idleness and aesthetic contemplation and that is why they are Crypto-Germans.

That sums it up quite well.

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