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Ruphus -> RE: back from berlin with one word to say (Jul. 18 2012 13:50:07)
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ORIGINAL: chester
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Polish people...warmth and humbleness
Are you referring to Polish people from Poland, in eastern europe??
I lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (one of the largest Polish populations outside of Poland) and I'm pretty sure I never saw any of my neighbors smile. EVER.
Hi Chester,
I don´t think that it ought to take smiling for the attributes I was referring to.
Guess you could be right though / suppose that Polish culture is of a rather melancholic tradition.
I do appriate humorous mentality a lot, like with the GBs.
However, what I am envisioning with those Germans of Polish roots is a special beauty of its own.
When I met the parents of some thelike friends first time as a teenager, I wondered why they would apparently dislike me. ( They would shake hands laconically while looking past you.) But they turned out to be actually well grounded and very nice folks.
Like with the sweet mother of one of them. It would usually take only 15 minutes after my arrival until she would enter the room with a tablet with a heap of yummy sandwiches. ( "You must eat something, my son.")
Or her son, already earning while we were still in school. When the munchies would get us after a nights booze while already broke, he would spend us a meal self-evidently without a hitch. - Or how everyone would stand up for the pals if there was trouble in a concert hall / discotheque.
When it is about standard of empathical skills, reliability, loyality and helpfulness, this mentality is top.
Bounding conditions much harder to find in the cheeringly superficial realm of fashionable places like Munich, Cologne or Düsseldorf.
Try to call up people there in the late evening, telling them that you have a truckload of furniture to unload and heave up to the fourth floor ( high cealing floors without elevator ).
I had that without preannouncement. One phone call, and a dozen of my friends from over 20 km away showed up in about half an hour, whooped the stuff in no time and left again, not even staying for a beer as they had to get up early next morning.
We are friends since almost fourty years, and that´s just common ways for guys like these.
Or have a breakdown with your motor bike in the Ruhrpott and see what happens very soon, with other bikers pulling in to see whether they can help the stranger.
Or visit a typical bar there and have a feeling like being part of the community long since.
No carnival, no hipster glitter; but earthy atmosphere as it gets.
- I like it straight.
Ruphus
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