No, she was one of those racist white power type people,
Then why were you writing that it's "maybe because Romanian is Latin culture", if you knew she was like that? There are "those racist white power type people" in every white country, including Poland.
We are not friends anymore.
What do you mean by that? You and that woman or Poles and Romanians?
Last time I checked Romanians are one of the most disliked people in Poland, even more disliked then Russians. There must be a reason for this.
Well, yes, of course there's a reason for this lol There's usually a reason for everything in this world.
Here you have a general information concerning why Poles dislike or like certain nations:
cbos.pl/SPISKOM.POL/2014/K_020_14.PDF
And here in more detail about why Poles (of course not all of them) dislike Romanians:
national-geographic.pl/uzytkownik/publikacje/pokaz/slawekol/dlaczego-polacy-nie-lubia-rumunow/
There is something absurd in the fact that the nation that feeds - how rare that - great sympathy for us, it is extremely rejected by the Poles. Why, because - in contrast to other nations disliked by us - it's hard to watch for any reason, real or imagined? Stereotype in the minds of the Romanian average Joe is very unfavorable. Speaking learning, mutual stereotyping of both nations: Poles and Romanians determined primarily by the memory of the communist era and the rapid social and political changes that have occurred in both countries. Romanian contemporary stereotype in Poland amounted to not under the influence of contacts with Romanians, but with the Roma / Gypsies, who arrive in this country, which changed the way of thinking about Romania in Poland. The fact that relatively recently, Poland and Romania had a common border has been obliterated in the collective memory of the two societies.
wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1010249,title,Rumuni-okazali-sie-duzo-lepsi-od-Polakow,wid,14914243,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=113996
We don't like Romanians - it's a fact. And we do not like them because they know little about them. For us, it still beggars and gypsies. Meanwhile, the "youngest" members of the EU proved to be a nation of hardworking, nice and well organized. In Italy more often displace us from the competition, in which, until recently, worked mainly Poles and became the largest and most influential exile community in the country.
In case of Romanians Polish antipathy isn't Romanians' fault. Romania never did anything bad to Poland (Romania didn't even recognise the partitions of Poland). This antipathy stems from misconceptions, stereotypes and prejudices. And those stem from the fact that during the 90's (and maybe later too) Poles were mixing up Romanians with the Roma people coming from Romania to Poland. Because of this confusion the very word "Rumun" (Romanian) was at that time almost a synonym of someone very poor, not very clean, looking worse for wear, begging both passively and actively (and sometimes rather aggressively), stealing, forcing little children to beg. Also, Poles knew and still know pretty much nothing about Romania, the only thing they associate it with is Gypsies, poverty, count Dracula, Ceaușescu and those who'll read an odd article in a newspaper maybe also with corruption.
The attitude toward Romanians did improve though over some years. In 1993 66% of Poles disliked Romanians and only 9% liked them. In 2014 45% dislikes them and 21% likes them.
You're right, more Poles dislike Romanians (45%) than Russians (42%). Although it can change still, since this poll was made in February and Russia managed to do a lot since then...
Russia feels that it is protecting Russians from west as they want to claim their own people.
Russia was justifying in the same way (protecting minorities) it's land grabs when it partitioned Poland together with Prussia and Austria and the occupation of then Polish territories by the Soviet Union when it partitioned Poland together with the Nazis. I have an impression that Russia always says what Russians and others want to hear when it's about to do something downright Machiavellian, tbh.
Oh, sorry, I'll give the links one more time (there should be more time for editing posts):
There is something absurd in the fact that the nation that feeds - how rare that - great sympathy for us , it is extremely rejected by the Poles . Why , because - in contrast to other nations disliked by us - it's hard to watch for any reason , real or imagined?
Romanian stereotype in the minds of average Joe is very unfavorable. Speaking learning , mutual stereotyping of both nations : Poles and Romanians determined primarily by the memory of the communist era and the rapid social and political changes that have occurred in both countries. Romanian contemporary stereotype in Poland amounted to not under the influence of contacts with Romanians , but with the Roma / Gypsies , who arrive in this country , which changed the way of thinking about Romania in Poland.
Btw, those translations under the links in my previous post aren't done by me and weren't posted by me o_O
Mods, I gave the gist of those articles in my previous post so Google translations weren't really necessary, I think ;)
Mods know better, relax:) btw. people can use google too so there's no need to post more than 1 article on the same topic.. thanks.