I mean not everybody who calls themselves Polish-American is ‘I am 0,0001% and I ate a pierogi once’ and I think it’s rude to be an asshole to someone you don’t know over their nationality
yet another delusional American. “I had ancestors from X therefore i embrace stereotype” is idiotic
At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter.
I looked at that comment and the user speaks Polish using a translator and thinks that having a passport from a country makes you the same as a native.
A large part of his comment his comment history is him trying to validate his polish/slavicness because he’s got citizenship through great grandparents.
weird
I consider myself Polish, but I’m. It 100% sure if others would classify me as Polish. I was born in Poland, but my family left Poland for the US when I was 7. I still speak Polish practically fluently(sometimes I’m not sure how too say a word in Polish, or I forget, but I can speak fluently otherwise). I can read and my writing is also readable. Sometimes I have too restructure a sentence because I can’t spell a word, but besides that I always text my dad in Polish(he does. It speak English or read in english)
So I dunno. Am I considered Polish or not? Well Polish-American that is. Oh and I do visit Poland every so often too visit my aunts/uncles, and well my grandma moved from the US back too Poland like 6 years ago, before that she moved too the US too live with us. I am now 35, so I lived in the US for 28 years now.
I have enough of my problems to care about something this trivial.
delulu yank
Ah shit, here we go again
I kind of get that appropriating identity and voice can be annoying, but some Poles are going too far with gatekeeping any claim to Polishness. Like, yes, there’s such thing as Polish-American, yes, someone who doesn’t speak Polish but had Polish roots might want to reconnect with them and value them to a certain extent.
It’s not always “just an American cosplaying as a Pole!”
Though big part of the haters of the “Polish heritage havers” is also guys and gals who think identifying with your bloodline is always kind of disgusting and reactionary. But I don’t agree with those either.
Anyway, I don’t have a problem with Polish-Americans as long as they’re truly curious about Poland and Polish culture.
I am torn on this, I was raised in America but my father’s side of the family moved to the US when my father was a toddler. My siblings and I were pushed to learn American culture and polish culture. My grandparents spoke Polish unless we were around. We only picked up on small amounts of it growing up. My mother’s family comes from Denmark and Sweden. I cannot say I am full blooded Polish, but it seems a bit dishonest to say I cannot say that I am of Polish descent in America.
For someone who has family that has been in the US for 200 years and is from Poland, to say they are Polish seems inaccurate. But I don’t see anything wrong with acknowledgment and pride in heritage and ancestors.
😂
I agree they can fuck off
Smoking remain of the invader sounds like acceptable win parameter.
That first comment is a paid ukrainian shill/propagandist or sb officer.
No cultural identity exists without the people holding it, because it is not a real physical thing and only exists in your mind. I strongly believe cultural identity is definietely NOT “assigned” at birth and yes you can be both. I think once you enter teenage years basically you start assembling your own identity and this process never really stops, nor can two people really have “the same” identity, because something is always going to be different. Utlimately it’s an expression of tribalism as well as a vehicle for civic cooperation. It’s neither positive nor negative. You can care about it or you may not, it’s fine either way.
He’ll be welcomed with open arms if he wants to come back to Poland, but as long as he benefits from the USA’s better geopolitical situation and contributes to its economy he’s no Pole
nah i am polish because i ate a pierogi **once in my life** and i think that poland should be independent from both Russia and USA, having its own sphere of influence /jk
It’s a nuanced issue that can’t be solved through a reductive expression of dna.
I could obtain Polish citizenship yet never consider myself Polish, while my children despite being dual citizens are so whole heartedly Polish at this point in their lives that a hyphentated citizenship would seem ridiculous
Is my wife British? Legally yes. Culturally, not in the slightest despite her dreaming in English.
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I don’t care. Live and let others live.
XDDDDDDDDD he got destroyed
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/s/GbsRDKMV05
I mean not everybody who calls themselves Polish-American is ‘I am 0,0001% and I ate a pierogi once’ and I think it’s rude to be an asshole to someone you don’t know over their nationality
yet another delusional American. “I had ancestors from X therefore i embrace stereotype” is idiotic
At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter.
I looked at that comment and the user speaks Polish using a translator and thinks that having a passport from a country makes you the same as a native.
A large part of his comment his comment history is him trying to validate his polish/slavicness because he’s got citizenship through great grandparents.
weird
I consider myself Polish, but I’m. It 100% sure if others would classify me as Polish. I was born in Poland, but my family left Poland for the US when I was 7. I still speak Polish practically fluently(sometimes I’m not sure how too say a word in Polish, or I forget, but I can speak fluently otherwise). I can read and my writing is also readable. Sometimes I have too restructure a sentence because I can’t spell a word, but besides that I always text my dad in Polish(he does. It speak English or read in english)
So I dunno. Am I considered Polish or not? Well Polish-American that is. Oh and I do visit Poland every so often too visit my aunts/uncles, and well my grandma moved from the US back too Poland like 6 years ago, before that she moved too the US too live with us. I am now 35, so I lived in the US for 28 years now.
I have enough of my problems to care about something this trivial.
delulu yank
Ah shit, here we go again
I kind of get that appropriating identity and voice can be annoying, but some Poles are going too far with gatekeeping any claim to Polishness. Like, yes, there’s such thing as Polish-American, yes, someone who doesn’t speak Polish but had Polish roots might want to reconnect with them and value them to a certain extent.
It’s not always “just an American cosplaying as a Pole!”
Though big part of the haters of the “Polish heritage havers” is also guys and gals who think identifying with your bloodline is always kind of disgusting and reactionary. But I don’t agree with those either.
Anyway, I don’t have a problem with Polish-Americans as long as they’re truly curious about Poland and Polish culture.
I am torn on this, I was raised in America but my father’s side of the family moved to the US when my father was a toddler. My siblings and I were pushed to learn American culture and polish culture. My grandparents spoke Polish unless we were around. We only picked up on small amounts of it growing up. My mother’s family comes from Denmark and Sweden. I cannot say I am full blooded Polish, but it seems a bit dishonest to say I cannot say that I am of Polish descent in America.
For someone who has family that has been in the US for 200 years and is from Poland, to say they are Polish seems inaccurate. But I don’t see anything wrong with acknowledgment and pride in heritage and ancestors.
😂
I agree they can fuck off
Smoking remain of the invader sounds like acceptable win parameter.
That first comment is a paid ukrainian shill/propagandist or sb officer.
No cultural identity exists without the people holding it, because it is not a real physical thing and only exists in your mind. I strongly believe cultural identity is definietely NOT “assigned” at birth and yes you can be both. I think once you enter teenage years basically you start assembling your own identity and this process never really stops, nor can two people really have “the same” identity, because something is always going to be different. Utlimately it’s an expression of tribalism as well as a vehicle for civic cooperation. It’s neither positive nor negative. You can care about it or you may not, it’s fine either way.
He’ll be welcomed with open arms if he wants to come back to Poland, but as long as he benefits from the USA’s better geopolitical situation and contributes to its economy he’s no Pole
nah i am polish because i ate a pierogi **once in my life** and i think that poland should be independent from both Russia and USA, having its own sphere of influence /jk
It’s a nuanced issue that can’t be solved through a reductive expression of dna.
I could obtain Polish citizenship yet never consider myself Polish, while my children despite being dual citizens are so whole heartedly Polish at this point in their lives that a hyphentated citizenship would seem ridiculous
Is my wife British? Legally yes. Culturally, not in the slightest despite her dreaming in English.