Delphiaindomine wrote:
Sooo.. I was told to start a thread.
Is it only me that finds the American "Polonia" attitude towards Poland irritating and downright insulting towards real Polish people?
They talk about "Busha" as if it's a real Polish word for Grandmother (in fact, most of them believe it is), they use Jaja (isn't this eggs?) for their grandfather. If that was all, I wouldn't mind - but when you get them talking about eating "pierogies" and then getting upset because Poland in 2010 is nothing like Lwów in 1930 (like Busha said) - it's bordering on ridiculous.
We won't even discuss how they talk about being so proudly Polish, yet they can't speak the language. These people are NOT Polish, they are "Polacks". Why? Because many of them don't even understand that the Polish word for a male Pole is "Polak" - but they've chosen to take offence.
Then there's the way that many of them completely mispronounce their "Polish" name. The worst example? I found a video on youtube of someone called "Marchewka". Anyone living in Poland will know that it's pronounced something similar to "mar-hef-ka" - but to the Polonia? It's "Mar-Chew-Ka". Gah.
Seriously, why do real Poles put up with them?
Do you think this is unique to just Polish Americans? The entire country is made up of people with an identity crisis. The thing you gotta understand though is that people either don't care or have simply accepted it. At the end of the day, people tend to not give a damn if their parents came from pre-1945 Germany or not.
Italian Americans are even worse, pappy. They put flag stickers on their cars, wear Italian colored t-shirts and sweatshirts, they all dress the same, do their hair the same, say things like mootsarel, brazhoot, parmajohnie, goomba, and are convinced people speak this way in Italy......have you seen 'Jersey Shore'? Do you think any of those kids speak Italian or know the first thing about Italian history?
Then there's the whole latino population. Sure, some of them are 1st generation but you will see many kids who are clearly of latino decent and they either don't speak the language or are pathetic at it, yet proclaim to be pure latino to the bone and talk about the mother country.
Don't even get me started on black people in America being "African American".
It's non-stop dude and the poles in america, as far as being "plastic" is concerned, aren't even in the same ball park as the many other wannabe's. A country made entirely of immigrants built by immigrants and run by immigrants. It's just something you'll never understand. You came from a homogenous country and moved to yet another one, like most people on this forum.
delphiandomine wrote:
Good Gawwwwd. Talk about desperately trying to make mountains out of molehills to bring divisions between Poles in Poland and their relatives outside of Poland.
not quite. the issue in the end is just his constant loathing of America, for whatever reason. these "plastic poles" reside in America, therefore, he's got a problem with them. It never ceases to amaze me how someone can hate a country so much, yet understand so little about it.
You've never been to the USA delph, which explains your ignorance towards it.....the same reason why your "plastic poles" have no concept of Poland.
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