Pol-Ams - how do you regard yourselves?

HamikaThreads: - Posts: 5 Joined: Jun 30, 10 ♀	Jul 1, 10, 02:44 #31
To me... Poland is my maternal home. France is my paternal home. Arizona is my home. Each of the three plays a role in making me who I am.

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Jul 1, 10, 02:49 #32

To me...

Poland makes up half my genes while Greek makes up the other half.
Qualitatively, Poland is the place I know I have family, own property, I enjoy reading the history of, reading and writing poetry of, speaking/reading/writing the language and etc.

While I am an American, I simply view America as this great corporate melting-pot that doesn't really have any intrinsic culture or ethnicity. America for me is my home, work, friends, school; however it is not my sense of belonging.

beckskiThreads: 19 Posts: 2,148 Joined: May 15, 07 MEMBER ♀	Jul 1, 10, 02:56 #33
Polonius3: Pol-Ams - how do you regard yourselves? Proud Polish-American Californian, with Polish ancestry and roots. A sincere thanks PF, for putting up with me FIVE terrific years, muah!

ZedThreads: - Posts: 304 Joined: May 25, 10 ♂	Jul 1, 10, 03:34 #34
Polish Americans should behave themselves the way they are accustomed to. And socialize as much as they can! I saw about 15 of them yesterday :-)

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Jul 1, 10, 03:56 #35

I joined so I could answer this!!

I have always considered my Polish heritage right up there with my religion. So instead of being a Pol/American I am a Catholic Pole!!

Don't get me wrong I am a proud American but my heritage was something my mom instilled in me. I love that I was born third generation American on one side and too many to count back on the American side.

I always celebrated Christmas the Polish way with the foods and Mass and family. All religious holidays are so ingrained Polish that I think my step kids think they are Polish too :))

plk123Threads: 30 Posts: 6,412 Joined: Aug 29, 07 ♂	Jul 1, 10, 04:29 #36
AmericanBetty: AmericanBetty cool! watch out tho.. this place can be very rough.. but welcome none the less.

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Jul 1, 10, 15:14 #37

Like Beckski above I regard myself as a proud Polish-American Californian, but the terms I choose to reflect the fact that all my ancestors come from Poland are not that important. Moreover, Polishness also has little to do with whether or not one speaks a lot of Polish and even less to do with whether or not one eats Polish food on holidays. One may have the Polish tongue and its taste buds and still lack what's essential about Polishness. This essence is a style of living as a gentleman without being effete. Polishness is appreciating poetry and the other arts while being robust. From the Non-Polish point of view Polishness is "crazy" and sometimes "savage". Polishness is about being a true aristocrat and behaving in a great and noble manner regardless of one's pecuniary circumstance. Here in the "Golden State" I feel much of that same ancestral "Golden Freedom" which made Poland such a great place in the past. Oh Poland your grandeur is lost but not forever. Shake off the dour cloak the Soviets left you clothed in, but don't trade it for some paltry bourgeois raiment. Don the żupan and brandish the buława!

delphiandomineThreads: 42 Posts: 9,954 Joined: Nov 25, 08 ♂ [Suspended]	Jul 1, 10, 17:15 #38
Des Essientes: Polishness is about being a true aristocrat and behaving in a great and noble manner regardless of one's pecuniary circumstance. Hahaha, yet another one who hasn't been to Poland and has no idea what it's actually like here.

alexw68	Edited by: alexw68 Jul 1, 10, 17:20 #39
Des Essientes: Polishness is about being a true aristocrat and behaving in a great and noble manner regardless of one's pecuniary circumstance. Preferably in Paris, of course. Syphilis, my well-connected friends tell me, can be relied upon to lend the required air of authenticity. The laudanum habit is optional.

MareGaeaThreads: 45 Posts: 5,527 Joined: Feb 6, 08 ♂	Edited by: MareGaea Jul 1, 10, 18:00 #40
Des Essientes: Des Essientes Are you sure you don't confuse the word Polishness with politeness and polishedness? >^..^< M-G (had to ask)

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Edited by: f stop Sep 15, 10, 22:46 #41

Des Essientes:

This essence is a style of living as a gentleman without being effete. Polishness is appreciating poetry and the other arts while being robust. From the Non-Polish point of view Polishness is "crazy" and sometimes "savage". Polishness is about being a true aristocrat and behaving in a great and noble manner regardless of one's pecuniary circumstance.

I like that. Couple of men in my family see themselves as such.

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