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Well, the "problem" is that there are not many different races in Poland, so it is hard to judge how racist we are. The most racist thing you can see here is p
by krzyk 6y ago
Well,
the "problem" is that there are not many different races in Poland, so it is hard to judge how racist we are.
The most racist thing you can see here is people staring at blacks or Asians. Because it is quite unique thing to see.
Just like when I was in South Korea and my wife was asked to pose in a picture of young Korean girl.
Similar thing happened 50 years ago, when my mother-in-law asked a black fellow to pose in a picture with her.
But that is expected when someone is unique, intriguing.
When I was young I lived in the south of Poland where we had a Roma minority. And I as a kid was afraid of them, because they were different from me and most of the time I saw them begging on streets. But same thing happened when I saw non-Romas begging on streets, just because they were dressed in old, torn and smelly cloths.
I have personally not met any Jews that I know of, because here you don't have any visual clues, it just like meeting an Orthodox Catholic, one would need to introduce him/herself like one to be recognized. And that maybe would result in interesting conversation, but thats it.
There is another negative issue here with large south city in Poland and Jews - Cracow. There is a district there that was mostly Jewish before the WW II, and now there are a lot of visitors from Israel schools that come there to look at the old buildings and synagogues. And because those are children in a difficult age and look quite unsupervised (besides the bodyguards that act very aggressively towards Poles) and leave quite a mess in hotels where they stay.
And there are also Brits :), you can recognize them because most of them walk in T-shirts during winter and are quite loud and like to have stag parties in Cracow, and also leave quite a mess in pubs/restaurants/hotels.
- coldtea 6y ago>Well, the "problem" is that there are not many different races in Poland, so it is hard to judge how racist we are. Well, the Poles didn't bring in slaves from Africa and had them working at their planations and so on for centuries though, so there's also that...
- kgabis 6y agoYou don't need slaves from Africa if you can enslave your own people through serfdom.
- coldtea 6y agoIf you enslave your own people it's not racism them, so that's a different problem...
- kgabis 6y agoI’m not saying it’s racism.
- gambiting 6y agoIn Poland pretty much all land owners, anyone of any wealth and intelligentsia were killed either by the Nazis or the Soviets. It's as if the US had a purge 70 years ago and anyone of any means was killed or sent to a labour camp. US still reaps the benefits of both slavery and the past and ongoing discrimination of its minorities - Poland on the other hand does not. First the Partitions of Poland have erased the country from existence for nearly 100 years, then Nazis killed over 2 million people starting with anyone who had anything valuable first, then 50 years of communism made sure than any kind of systematic exploitation based on serfdom was eradicated and burnt to the ground. While it is taught in history books, the entire class of people who might have been perpetuating the practice have simply been killed off or exiled.
- kgabis 6y agoI'm not blaming Poles for it (being a Pole myself), just making an observation.