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Patrycja19Threads: 79
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Joined: Oct 31, 06  Pictures: 1 ♀ 		 Mar 9, 09, 06:19    #331
Seanus:
I'm still waiting to be mooned by a bunch of hot Polish chicks. This is acceptable rudeness ;) To be positively encouraged :)

nothing like speaking your mind.. ok so I will fullfill your wish. you want chicks you got it!

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rasolThreads: 1
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Joined: Mar 8, 09 ♂ 		 Mar 9, 09, 08:21    #332
I have been to poland 3 times and have not found them to be rude.

They just stare at me - Im Indian. But that's not being rude. Just curious.
foxtrot1213Threads: 2
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Joined: Aug 29, 08 ♂ 		 Mar 9, 09, 09:30    #333
You think Poles are rude? Try Finland.
In short: If you want to move to a place where no one appreciates your hard work but quick to jump at you if you did an iota of fck up then move to Finland.
Polishreall  Mar 10, 09, 00:10    #334
I'm Polish and in my opinion Polish people are less polite than English. There are many reasons to this - some of them have already been discussed at this forum...

I would like to draw your attention to two more. Firstly in communism most of Polish 'intelligence' (lawyers, doctors, journalists, writers, priests etc) were killed by Russians who 'believed' in the working class and that a 'simple' folk is easier to control. There was a gap in developing of the couture (Poland had to wait for the new generation of 'new intelligence' to grow).

Secondly most of us - polish People who come to this country- are not very well educated. We work in building, cleaning, catering (sorry for generalizing). We can not fairly represent the Polish population.

And one more thing: In my opinion Polish people are much more polite to people they know (they are more rude, or just neutral, to strangers). This could be an effect of the fact that under communism Polish people couldn’t trust anybody, even children at school were brain washed) so people kept distance, didn’t smile to each other on the street, didn’t trust their neighbours etc.

I work in an English language college in Oxford (relax: I don’t teach English:-). Most of our students at the moment are Arabs - lovely people BUT - they come across as...rude (mainly because they don’t use 'please and thank you' quite as often as people in this country). Well - it isn’t their fault. They just try to communicate so they say 'give me this now'...

What I want to say is: yes, there are rude Poles - plenty of them, people with whom I (being Polish myself), wouldn’t feel comfortable at all. But please, before judging, try to think whether it's rudeness or just lack of English and lake of confidence. After all we have a big complex of being less cool that those to the west of the iron curtain.
pgtxThreads: 49
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Joined: Feb 14, 09  Gold Member MEMBER ♀ 		 Mar 10, 09, 00:14    #335
Do you think that Polish people are rude?

the foreigners i've met told me that i am...


PS- FYI... i don't mean it... ;P
SeanusThreads: 22
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 10, 09, 00:16    #336
Many Poles here say that they are rude and intolerant. When I question them, they scowl at me as if to say, 'how do you know, foreigner?'. Then I know they are right ;)
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Joined: Mar 10, 09 ♂ 		 Mar 10, 09, 00:29    #337
Well personally i am not a rude Polish person. but i have noticed some of my people are rude
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 10, 09, 00:39    #338
Some of any country's people are rude :(
12345nae  Mar 10, 09, 03:01    #339
hi i totally agree with you. Im from Afghanistand and most people judge that Afghan people in bad way. i understand what you mean there are some rude people in any where wheather its uk, poland or Afgahnistand.
TyskieThreads: 1
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Joined: Mar 2, 09 ♂ 		Edited by: Tyskie  Mar 17, 09, 12:36    #340
I don't think Poles have as much social intelligence as other cultures.
They have no qualms about blocking pavements so that other people have to go onto the roadway to get past them; they don't generally stand out of your way for you; don't hold doors open for others, nor say 'sorry' if they bump into you. Poles think nothing of barging into on the pavement, as though you weren't there. It's weird.

You don't notice this as much in Poland, but it stands out more in Dublin when you come into contact with Poles.
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Joined: Feb 17, 09 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 12:40    #341
Polishreall:
Firstly in communism most of Polish 'intelligence' (lawyers, doctors, journalists, writers, priests etc) were killed by Russians who 'believed' in the working class and that a 'simple' folk is easier to control. There was a gap in developing of the couture (Poland had to wait for the new generation of 'new intelligence' to grow).

this is an often-heard excuse. if this is so, why are the people of Cambodia so friendly and polite?
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Joined: Nov 13, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 14:47    #342
Tyskie:
I don't think Poles have as much social intelligence as other cultures.

You could have a point there. Certainly in some big cities like Lodz the majority of the resident urban Poles are only a generation or so away from the village and their rural origins. It might simply be that they are not used to living in such close contact with so many other people. Manners are said to be a social lubricant (like KY jelly I guess) and it's no accident that countries which became urbanised quite early have some of the best reputations for 'manners' (holding doors open, not pushing onto the bus, not spitting in the street, not sitting on their balconies with a beer and only wearing their underpants and a baseball cap etc.)
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Joined: Feb 17, 09 ♀ 		 Mar 17, 09, 16:11    #343
Juche:
if this is so, why are the people of Cambodia so friendly and polite?

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They are only after your money ,as a foreigner they see westerners as "walking ATM machines".
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 16:11    #344
It depends what you mean by social intelligence and also what comparisons you choose to make.
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Joined: Oct 18, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 16:15    #345
MrBubbles:
Manners are said to be a social lubricant (like KY jelly I guess) and it's no accident that countries which became urbanised quite early have some of the best reputations for 'manners' (holding doors open, not pushing onto the bus, not spitting in the street, not sitting on their balconies with a beer and only wearing their underpants and a baseball cap etc.)

Like in The Bronx, Harlem or South Brooklyn?
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 16:31    #346
Some are grateful when you open a door, some aren't. The oldies have no appreciation for the most part. There was one today who I had to call sth nasty as not only did she not say thank you, she also grunted at me.

The same happened to my fiancee. We were coming out of a meat shop and this old hag decided to enter before letting us out the narrow automatic doors. It's like you are not there sometimes.
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Joined: Nov 13, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 18:37    #347
z_darius:
Like in The Bronx, Harlem or South Brooklyn?

Are these countries, Zed? Go read the post again.
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Joined: Oct 18, 07 ♂ 		Edited by: z_darius  Mar 17, 09, 18:46    #348
MrBubbles:
Are these countries, Zed? Go read the post again.

Re-read. Regrouping:

so other words countries such as Italy, Greece or some of the Middle Eastern ones are ahead of England in manners.
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Joined: Nov 13, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 20:14    #349
z_darius:
countries such as Italy, Greece or some of the Middle Eastern one

Yes z, highly urbanised countries like Italy, Greece and the Middle Eastern ones are renowned, correctly or not, for having good manners. Did the 9 mins it took you to respond include the time spent moving your finger across the screen as you re read that post or was it figuring how to use the keyboard?
Please take your time to think - I don't want to pressure you!
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Joined: Oct 18, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 20:19    #350
MrBubbles:
Yes z, highly urbanised countries like Italy, Greece and the Middle Eastern ones are renowned, correctly or not, for having good manners.

So all we need to establish now is what good manners are.

MrBubbles:
Did the 9 mins it took you to respond include the time spent moving your finger across the screen as you re read that post or was it figuring how to use the keyboard?

You are flattering yourself. Speaking of good manners, do you really think all I do is wait to respond to your posts?
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 23:15    #351
Precisely Dariusz. I've said this elsewhere that the Japanese like to slurp their noodles. It's actually bad manners not to. We find that rude and intrusive. Very odd given that the Japanese are less intrusive, preferring instead to keep to themselves.
miranda  Mar 17, 09, 23:23    #352
Seanus:
Japanese like to slurp their noo

slurp, slurp;)
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 23:26    #353
I said noodles, not....oh, nevermind ;)
miranda  Mar 17, 09, 23:28    #354
Seanus:
I said noodles, not....oh, nevermind ;)

oh, I hate this new quoting system, but I guess it worked for YOU:)
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 17, 09, 23:30    #355
Well, um, I guess so
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Joined: Feb 14, 09 ♂ 		 Mar 18, 09, 05:24    #356
MrBubbles:
not sitting on their balconies with a beer and only wearing their underpants and a baseball cap

Is this a common problem?

MrBubbles:
Did the 9 mins it took you to respond include the time spent moving your finger across the screen as you re read that post or was it figuring how to use the keyboard?

LMAO...
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Joined: Nov 13, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 18, 09, 10:56    #357
Randal:
Is this a common problem?

You'd be surprised. They look like the guy from Beavis and Butthead - the one who sits at the back of the fat woman's caravan smoking a cigarette
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Joined: Feb 14, 09 ♂ 		Edited by: Randal  Mar 18, 09, 16:46    #358
So you’re telling me that Poland has its share of hicks and rednecks, Polish trailer trash? How about ghettos? Any black ghetto garbage culture?
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Mar 19, 09, 22:19    #359
I don't care that much if they are rude. If I'm in my stride and things are ticking over nicely, I don't even notice.
NewBrit  Apr 9, 09, 11:24    #360
I've worked in Wroclaw for 8 months now and in my firm, the majority of employees are Poles. They were incredibly defensive and aloof to start with but have now let their guard down as I have made the effort to try to speak a few words and take an interest in their culture, food, etc. It seems like it's always the foreigner who has to make the effort, though and they are not generally welcoming.
Out of work and onto public transport/shops, it's a different kettle of fish. It's like a warpath and I have never used my elbows so much. If you don't push your way onto buses or trams, you'll either end up face down on the pavement or wedged between doors.
In shops or supermarkets, 'Przepraszam' means 'Get out of my way as I've already pushed your trolley aside' rather than 'Excuse me'.
I don't think tourists will come away from Poland saying how 'polite' and 'helpful' the locals are like you see on travel programmes.

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