If you learn Polish, Poles will treat you like a king.🙂

I would mention two things; Poland on one side had a difficult relationship with Asians because of Crimean Tatars who would raid us constantly, but then there is a history of alliance between Poland-Lithuanian Republic and the Golden Horde, and then the Polish Tatars from Crimea. Many Poles to this day are very well aware that we were allies with the Golden Horde against West-Europeans in form of the Teutonic Order, and that Polish Tatars were basically our war heroes even as late as in 1939, and there was somewhat respectful relationship with the Crimean Khanate that would actually be a very good ally on a number of occasions, when we spared each other to come to each other's aid at some point. Another point is that the first Polish-Japanese interaction gave fruits in form of the 'Porando-Kaiko' poem that became somewhat famous both in Japan and Poland, and then even though we were in opposing alliances during WWII our intelligence services remained strong allies and Japan helped us a lot. Eventually, Poles were always interested in history, and this naturally caused an admiration to ancient and long lasting advanced civilisations of East-Asia. It only helped that the Vietnamese immigration in Poland have proven themself as great people and then there were little things like we watched Kurosawa's movies and saw all the respect around things which resonated with our own culture or how in his movies Japanese cavalry would have those wing-like flags attached to saddles which from distance looks similar to the wings of our Hussars, and makes specific impression especially combined with bent sabres and recurved bows they used? It seems that Poles always liked the East and while feeling to be European we didn't exactly like West-European culture, and looked a lot into Asian cultures which shows a lot in old-Polish clothing, arms or even decoration patterns of our armours, not to mention using specifically Eastern weapons. From the times of old-Poland, seems we hated the French for their wars on religion and not-man-like clothing. In the same time, Poles began to believe that we originated from Sarmatians or Scytches from central-Asia and even tried hard to imitate them. Some even rejected more effective plate armour, and began using karacena, which was much worse in every way but they wanted to use it because it was more Sarmatian/Scythian. King Sobieski portrayed himself in such armour as well. Maybe it's my personal bias, I've always been more interested in history of East-Asian cultures, probably read more about them than about the West. Maybe I also feel more connection because I'm partly East-Asian myself, some of my ancestors were Tatar and after so many generations I'm like someone who may look West-European for Asians, but then for Europeans I look Asian because of my eyelids and skin. As for speaking in Polish; while I'm good at English, and can speak a few words in other languages, I always first try to speak Polish to seemingly a foreigner in Poland because I don't want to disrespect them by assuming they couldn't be bothered to learn any of the language, and at the end of the day it may turn out hey have lived here for 10, 20 years or maybe even their family have lived here for decades? It might fail most of the time, but I consider it more polite to first try in local language than assuming they only speak English, especially when I don't know where they are coming from and I don't even know if they speak English. As for jokes, we may make ultra-racist jokes but they are not intented to insult anyone. We make similar jokes about ourselves, like for istance, if our justice minister does drunk driving and fataly hits pedestrians, the pedestrians will be accused of running away from the scene of accident. It's not meant to harass anyone, it's just that we don't take reality seriously because we think it's too bad to take it seriously.

yeah Asians are the least problematic people in the west.

he ain't lyin

That's not what I heard.

⁠@@gabrielleangelica1977you heard wrong

@@Rowokop lmao

@@Rowokop No, I didn't. Germany? Really? My relatives living in Germany disagree. A Polish commenter admits that he hates blacks.

@@gabrielleangelica1977 sorry, we miss understood, i meant living in poland, not in germany. thats my bad. because in poland there is no racism at all. i can talk about german cause i dont have a experience 🙏🙏

This has been my observation too. Plus Asians and slavs find each other physically attractive, which is nice

The racist jokes, I don't see those as racist, but race based. Race should not be an electric fence, if a joke is told for giggles, not with a goal to belittle, then it is not racist. Just like there are polish jokes, dad jokes, religion based jokes. They all play off of stereotypes. Don't let media put a wedge between people.

Aren't tatars of Mongol origin? Like they came from golden horde if my memory is right

@@diooverheaven6561 Rings the right bell. So, the Golden Horde was one of the group-states that emerged, and those eventually subordinated to Lithuanian Duchy, and supported Poland and Lithuania in the Battle of Grunwald which could have been the largest battle of medieval Europe. There was also the Crimean Khanate, which was a separate state, and mostly hostile to Poland and Lithuania, however because of unstable politics, many high ranks Tatars from Crimea ran away to the Republic of Poland-Lithuania which granted them nobility status and hired them as a whole into the army (which was kept as tradition all the way up till 1939 when the last Tatar unit was destroyed in combat, but survivors joined 'the first partisant's' the insane-amazing Major Henryk 'Hubal' Dobrzański 110th cavalry unit that just refused to acknowledge the defeate and kept walking around in full uniforms, fighting whatever German unit they encountered.) At the end of the day, you are mostly right, they were all descendants of the Mongol Empire. To name a few, Charles Bronson was of Polish-Lithuanian Tatars. I'm partly Tatar myself and after so many generation still have typical east-Asian eyelids.

​@@piotrmalewski8178 Golden Horde was not presented at the battle of Grunwald, please do not spread misinformation. There were some Tatars on Polish-Lithuanian side but they were NOT connected to Golden Horde in any way. From Polish perspective Golden Horde was always a danger and every alliance was based on a temporary needs of both sides, just a business, and none of them lasted long. In that part about nobles from Crimea you're right, some of them migrated and got nobility granted.

Same observation :)

Please be yourself and don't overthink things. Poland's ethnicity is approximately 99% Polish, so it's understandable that you might assume that a non-Slavic looking person may not be able to speak Polish. However, this is not a racist assumption. Things will change over the years and I certainly hope that we will be speaking Polish to all non-Slavic looking Poles in the future.

Seeing him on video here I'd say we check him out because he is hot AF!

Could you please give an example of Ukrainians (and I don't mean drunk loosers that each country has) treat Poles as weak and pathetic? I live and work in Krakow for about 3 years and I hear a lot of complains but absolutely don't see that in a real life.

I think more to the south Korea. Also Korea was in similar situation (between china-japan conflicts during war, like poland between Germany-russia) and also was farmer land. Japan peoples works too much and don't have too much time for family. Korea is more soft version of that, That's why IMO suits better to poles

There is practically no systemic racism in Poland - but that is mostly because there is not enough minorities to make any systemic discrimination possible with going full on open racism.

@@goshky no , we have many minorities today , especialy ukrainians , i have one ukrainian friend in middle scholl class , and racism towards ukrainians is rare but happens sometimes , also about imigrants from middle east and nearby region , propably its not because racism we don't want let them in our country but we are scared what happend in france and germany , we never had terrorist attack in history , but whatever , we have still few corruption scandals and about year ago i think (maybe not) one politician give them polish visa or something for money so they let them in our country and we have now imigrants , way less than in west but enough for example to meet them sometimes in my city of 200 000 people , for example in center one time on week or something , there is more of them in capital and one month ago one was jumping on vehicle so he went to jail for vandalism , or half year ago one imigrant went out of the car on street in city for praying and he made traffic jam , like they have a different culture but if they coming to our country just obey law Its not like we don't have minorities , maybe 10 years ago that was true , but many people went to Poland and today we have many of them , maybe its not like 25% but it is something now

lmao its very popular energy drink brand in poland, ive never thought anything about it tbh

Yea, together with its marketing slogan being, literally "Tiger: Power is Black"

But the South Koreans are actually racist though. Just a thought...

That. I am from that era as well, and the only Non Polish people I've met were Russians. Borders were closed, and given the atmosphere at the time, and the history, people were VERY xenophobic. I wasn't, and because of that, I had to fight, and was ostracized quite a few times. It was weird times, but in retrospect, quite understandable.

40 years ago was 1984 so people who were born then were 5 years old when the communism finished. Time flies so those who you say do not speak English, do not know the Internet and remember communism are 50+

What a terrible thing to say. Poor people are as valuable, worthy and normal as anyone else. Racism is not a class-determined phenomenon.

Yeah, the comment about those people being poor is kind of unnecessary, since most poor people in Poland are not really racist, either by nature or by not giving a shit because they're too busy trying to put food on the table. The time to type out that sentence would've been much better spent explaining what a "patus" is to people who aren't Polish.

​@@rado9952i believe intent of commenter was that he said they are often poor as they are pathologic so they often spend almost all their money on alcohol or have children to get 500+

Check out Irvine or the SF Bay Area if you can, lots of Asians.

L.A local is all Mexican and black. 626 and SGV is where all the asians at.

Too broad of a question, it depends on what you're looking for

@@WheresWes well I earned a certification to be a certified teacher… to live abroad happily… wandering which 1 wud be better starter for new people living in Europe…

Dm me on Instagram or send me an email ​@@Tommytanthemanofficial

@@Tommytanthemanofficial yeah so as a polish person if you want to be a teacher you'll have to learn the language and with polish it wont be easy

@@Tommytanthemanofficial Currently in Spain you will earn more but it's also more expensive to live there, Polish economy is more stable at the moment and it might be easier to find a job in Poland. For teacher it depends what you would want to teach, where and what languages you know, it some case it might be required to know basic Polish language but in some cases different levels of English language might be all that you need, especially in privet language teaching schools.

so what it was to weak to colonize anyone but it wanted colonies. dont use this argument ever again clown.

Lmao ahahaha

dont you understand? if you say to him you wanna marry a korean guy (which he's not) it's making him wonder if you'll stay loyal to him or just leave. its like him saying to you that he wants to marry someone but not you

You know that Taehyung or Lee Min Ho will not fall for you😉 delulu, stick to what good you have if it's good

less kdrama, more "M jak miłość"🤣

im asian guy but come on gotta be respectful towards your bf ;/

But yes its true in France or UK Asians may be looked down upon, but in Poland they're just seen as equal people, as we don't have some weird racial hiearchies like many western countries have nor a history of eugenics and thinking that our genes makes us better than others like the Anglo-Saxon Nations or Germany.

Immigration here is going to happen regardless. I might as well try to attract the right people to Poland

Because i thought I'd be assumed to be a foreigner, thus them starting with English.

@@WheresWes don't judge book by the cover. Whenever I'm abroad and I'm entering somewhere I just say hi in the native language and then I'm politely asking if they speak English. Works for me will work for you.

i have had this thought too, very interesting.

"Slavics and Asians actually still share a lot of facial features". Indeed, thanks to Gengis Khan ⚔️

@@xyz-tn3pl Bullshit.

that's a fair point