roofis wrote:
on another note in my area there has jus opened a polish hairdresser and a polish shop . lets start with my view on the hairdresser . the sign outside the shop states the name of the shop whitch is ok . then it sayes polish hairdresser i find this very rude and so do the local ppl in my area . i have spoke to meny local ppl in my area and they also dont like it either . can someone tell me do polish ppl get diff hair cuts from british ppl .. also there is a polish shop next to the hairdresser i have heard from locals that they only let polish ppl into the shop . this can not be true can it the ppl in aberdeen have a couple of issues with the polish community in aberdeen they dont talk to local ppl i dont no any one i no ppl from work . friends . family . inact all the ppl i no i no a very lot of ppl in my city and in my area . but none of them no a single polsh person . why is this . there is over 1000 polish ppl in my area and . me or anyone in my area no any of them . i find this wronge . i have tried to talk to polish ppl in the street saying hi and asking how they r . they dont talk back its rude . i think if the polish ppl in aberdeen should start to interact with the local ppl in aberdeen . this is not happening for what i can see . i am sorry if any of this text has offended anyone but . its true
I know exactly where you're speaking about, as I work in that area. I can assure you it's not true at all about the shop. I spoke to the owner about it and he was genuinely shocked that anyone thought that. It is possible that there has been some language barrier at some point that has given someone the wrong impression, and the story has grown as stories tend to do when they are wrong...
Are you trying to talk to Polish people in polish or english? My experience in that area is that Polish people are very quiet and reserved, until you speak even a little bit of polish to them, when they open up into some of the warmest, friendliest people I've ever met. Even a quick 'dzien dobry, jak siê masz?' works wonders.
Think of it this way - if you went to live in Poland, how easy would you find it to talk back to people on the street? It's a fair bet you'd spend most of your time with other Scottish people that you could talk to, at least until you could get to grips with the language.
Interestingly, just 50 yards away from that Polish shop is a language centre which is packed out the door with Polish people learning english...