I can understand that

I can understand your opinion on small talk. For me I like small talk as long as it’s respectful and technically I’m extroverted so it works in a favour for me. Polish culture is always like a London culture but different and differ from people where small talk is non existent.

Jak leci?

@@LMB222😂😂

In countries where locals don't make smalltalk there is more isolation and depression.

Very true, as a husband of a polish woman and have few polish friends, whenever i entered the house of the in laws or a friends house i was treated like a king

That doesn’t happen as often as it used to.

lmao no, I'm Polish as well. Just cross the border and you'll see the difference. Also you're tripping with this BS about treating guestes 🤣There soooo many much more hospitable countries than Poland will ever be. Travel the world first, then leave silly comments

@@TheAleksandros przynajmniej w mojej rodzinie tak jest oraz w rodzinach moich znajomych. Jak każdy, dobry obyczaj, ten też prawdopodobnie wymiera i nie jest przekazywany z pokolenia na pokolenie. Ale ja tak się wychowałam. I tak jestem też traktowana przez innych. Pozdrawiam

@@slaviapolandia7541 Jeśli się przejedziesz po bałkańskich krajach, jak np. Serbia, Czarnogóra, Macedonia albo nawet znacznie dalej np Wietnam, nierzadko się zdarza, że ludzie oferują nocleg obcej osobie w ramach gościnności - może nie w stolicach i wielkich metropoliach, ale w mniejszych miejscowościach i owszem. Mówię z doświadczenia bo osobiście mi się zdarzały takie rzeczy. Nawet jak pojedziesz do sąsiednich Niemiec - w małych miasteczkach jest normalne, że obce osoby witają się i pozdrawiają na porządku dziennym, gdzie w Polsce jak mówisz komuś "dzień dobry" to polaczki rzucają wzrok jakby chciały Cię zabić xD Zgodzę się poniekąd, że z pokolenia na pokolenie wymiera to trochę wszędzie i ludzie są coraz bardziej zabiegani, ale biorąc ogół rzeczy w kupę Polska nigdy wcześniej ani życzliwym, ani gościnnym krajem nie była - chyba, że myślisz, że imieninki u cioci to jest coś xD

Agreed 💯

No need to be rude though

​@@-_Blitz_-Not rude but neutral. When someone smiles at you in Poland, you know it's real and not fake.

Definitely ruder than normal. All my friends from other countries say the same thing

@@WheresWes its because you don't want to accept the cultural differences. You cannot apply your cultural patterns to our culture which is different, and people behaves in different way. But I understand it can be difficult to switch.. You can not go to another country, different culture, much older than USA and expect that people will behave like americans or Italians or Even Germans which are much more similar, but also very superficial like most Anglo-Saxons. For us for example it could be rude when some one who we don't know is asking "how are you". This is rude, because in our culture it is intimate personal thing. Moreover Americans are not interested in how are you in a fact, this is only superficial question , no one expect true answer. This would be also considered as rude in our culture. Because if you ask, you should be interested in. But we don't say that Americans are rude, because this are just different cultural patterns. And for you it is rude, no we have just different culture. Do you know that when somebody on the street Poland is smiling to strangers, in our culture it is not normal guy, he is considered as mentally ill. Did you know that? Ok, at the times tpical Pole will think "mentally ill" or tourist from west 🤣. Seriously. So how we can smile? I Poland friendship is something really important, not like in US for example. First you need to deserve for friendship, then you can benefit from it. And you know what, I'm proud that we are like this, because we are true, not superficial, this is for m a big value. IMHO when when you want to assess people, rather you should look how they hospitable they are, how helpful they are, how they behave towards their friends, how strong friendship is, how you can rely on people you know. I all of this competition Poles win with Americans or Germans. Italian or Spanish people can be more similar in this field. In Poland we have proverb "don't judge book by its cover". In other words saying this you show that you didn't get to know yet Poles enough well.

Jak to polish are not rude???A Tusk???

Rudeness is subjective. That's one of the key differences between cultures. They might be rude by our American standards, but, as an American who hates small talk, I find it more rude to pretend to care about a stranger you couldn't care less about than to be direct and to the point until you get to know somebody.

@@WheresWes Maybe they're rude to you because you expect them all to speak English instead of learning their language, while in their country.

Oh yh literally they couldn’t even handle it and then they quit alcohol which then they realised that they went into teetotal. I’m from England and it’s accurate that it is I’ve seen first hand what they capable with and they aren’t capable with anything at all.

Agreed

Latin southern countries are the friendliest. Always will be.

Idk man, the American south is pretty friendly.. Everyone makes you feel like a family member

Thank you. This would require a mature mindset to understand, which he doesn't seem to have.

@@ravenswood118 Why did you have to go to respond rudely under a comment that went out of their way to be polite and educational? He's a foreigner in Poland, coming from a different culture, biased towards that culture. One could say that he should 'learn the culture' he's going to, but reality is such that to really learn a culture you have to PARTAKE in that culture. And within that culture, to be taught of it. The commenter you responded to did just that. Try to teach somebody that was not aware of what they misunderstand. You on the other hand are just demeaning the creator of this video for not having the luck of meeting somebody that could have taught him that which he's lacking. So between the two of you, you had proven much more to lack mature mindset. Because a mature person doesn't consider lack of knowledge a slight, but an opportunity to teach.

They are kind people but definitely not the most friendly. Being kind and nice and two different things, people are conflating the two

@@WheresWeswell not your stereotypical American friendly but friendly enough to actually ask for directions and then after that nothing happens so really depends I guess. Polish people can be cold but when you get to know them they can be nice and friendly to you. It just they take longer to warm up and sometimes they don’t either so I wouldn’t really take personally and at least they straight up honest and polite not the fake politeness you get in Uk but you get what I mean.

@@WheresWes And from what I'm getting, you're nice but not kind.

@@WheresWes You are also conflating 'friendliness' with 'openness'. Friendship from which the 'friendliness' comes is something earned. Strangers aren't friendly. Strangers can only be open/outgoing or closed. That's what makes them strangers. Polish people certainly are rather closed. However, if you DO have business to interact with them (new people in a workplace, classmates, regulars at some place etc., service workers), then Polish people DO tend to be friendly. Western culture had watered down the concept of a 'friend'. If you consider yourself to have dozens (or more) of 'friends', then by Polish standards, you maybe have a few actual friends. The rest are just associates. Learning this difference will help you greatly with cultures that attach emotional value to 'friendship', like the Poles do, instead of just using it as a less official word for someone with whom you talked with or just work/study together with.

Not what I said

@@WheresWes It literally is what you said.

still here, i'm quite happy in Poland

Basic manners are what I'm used to. And people not interacting is fine but sometimes Poles can be extra rude

@@WheresWes I love this Western-centricity where a different approach to life immediately equals a lack of manners. A real lack of manners is being fake like you.

@@WheresWes My dude, you think you have basic manners but you expect Poles to learn to speak English to accommodate foreigners like you, instead of learning Polish when staying there for an extended period of time. You wouldn't even learn Polish for a Polish partner. Please sit down.

going at the end of the month

They are all different. Ukraine, for example, was extremely friendly

@@WheresWes they just wanna rob you, fake smiles, oh look up there, and your wallet is gone! ;)

Because being slavic is linguist thing, not cultural or genetic, of course some countries are similar to each other, for example Poles, Czechs and Slovaks are quite similar because we are neighbours, but balkan slavic countries are way more friendly, the same with russia ukraine or belarus.

@@gonzommz1739 Slavic is definitely a cultural thing. Some Poles are so ashamed of being Slavic and don't want to be. It's odd. There's nothing to be ashamed of, it's a very interesting culture.

Wielokrotnie słyszałem opinie ( porównanie Ukraina Polska ) od Ukrainek, Ukrainców i you tuberów którzy zamieszkali w Polsce że ludzie w Polsce są bardziej grzeczni uprzejmi od ich rodaków , to im imponuje chcieli by naśladować itp

was not impressed by Paris at all. Dirty, expensive, and super overrated.

Are there any french in paris?

Eating well won't be necessary to go to the drug store for vitamin tablets. I've lived in Poland since birth, I've never had any depression. I like golden autumn, winter a little less, snow at Christmas and New Year's yes. I like this cycle of four seasons, the dying and waking up of green nature in spring.

Because in manual labor you mainly meet Poles who fled Poland, either for criminal reasons or for reasons of poor education and could not find a job here, or have alcohol/drug problems. As one Polish politician said, the only positive thing after joining the EU was that we got rid of the worst kind of people and exported them to foreign countries.

@@gonzommz1739 Well, if what you say is true, with the way things are going right now between the UK & Europe - I sincerely hope we see less of those bad ones & more of the good, smart, educated ones .. I currently work back & forth between warehousing & IT, so I hope to be working with more of the good ones in the near future.

We are not similar, what a bullshit. Better stay where you are.

@@tommypreludio6566 I acknowledge you as a master of rhetorics and I will indeed change my mind and stay where I am

Been taking dance classes here. Most of the people who talked to me are non Poles. Ukrainians, Belarusians. Poles seem to not very interested in other people but their own. Just my observation

@@chrisnguyen8788 Nah your right dude I understand, same experience here as a British-Filipino growing up in London. Most EEs are generally fine, but a lot of them are just plain grumpy & on "work-mode" 24/7. As a Brit, its not the sort of working environment you wanna be in long-term.

What you're complaining about is strange, I'm Polish and I'm not interested in talking to foreigners or even people I don't know. I have my own life and my surroundings and they are the ones that interest me, why waste time on stupid small talk, it only takes away the energy needed at work or in my private life.

i ask people in my building and they are from all over the country, usually small cities.

​@@WheresWes fair enough, I had the impression that the building is more of an international dorm. I think the reason I disliked Kraków is i felt like a complete outsider (even though I'm Polish). Which is really rough because in Poland social life is based on close, long term friendships. Everyone had those and I didn't. I felt like everybody living in Kraków moved there for university, and has been living there since university, still hanging out with the same group of people. And even if I joined one of these groups I felt like a fifth wheel. For some reason in Warsaw i felt more like I belong there. I think it's because in Warsaw there is more people who moved there for work, after university. So there were more people sharing the same experience, of moving there as adults and not knowing anyone. But maybe it's just cause I know more people in Warsaw. Anyway it's just my experience. I'm not trying to convince anyone. Cheers!

lol you misunderstood i said British are worse

I've been. Guiness from Ireland is undefeated

Fair comment, I've heard that from other Poles as well

never complained about their english skills, chill

English is essential, dimwit.

Exactly....

Mainly cause of the visa situation

Better quality of life

Coming in a future video

This is true, & I'm sorry you had to experience that. As much as people (ourselves included) love to sh*t on the US & UK - at least our countries are diverse & idealistic, no matter how bad or corny or "progressive" things seem. Unlike in these post-communist countries where the mentality is just different & these people don't really "get" us. Think Apollo Creed vs Ivan Drago in Rocky 3, it really be that way sometimes.

bro wtf

More like you are just racists.

I talk about the good and bad, like I always do

If you’ve ever watched his other videos and had no problem with him talking about his experience in other countries, then this should be no different lol grow up. The man is literally complimenting Poland like all the time in his other videos, I don’t understand…

@@GdzieJestNemo I think the problem here is how the title of the video is framed. It's not 'what I didn't like' at all. It is 'Why you will HATE'. The first one refers to personal opinion, while the second one is a statement. Furthermore, the first one defines itself as talking about part of the whole ('what') while the latter one defines the whole ('why'). In other words, the first one would say that there are things he doesn't like in Poland (which doesn't mean that there are no things that he does like, and he may actually like Poland as a whole), while the latter makes a statement that he outright hates living in Poland and others will too. It's simply an extremely click-bait of a title. Also, please don't reference his other videos. NO ONE should be expected to watch any other video than the one they are watching to get the actual idea of what it's supposed to convey. I can see in the recommended his video about there being things that he likes in Poland, and why he likes Poland...but what if I didn't get them recommended? What if I didn't even watch this video, just glanced at the title? Yeah. That does paint an extremely bad picture for Poland. People, titles are meant to inform viewers of what the content is! A click-bait title is NOT a title. It's a scam. Don't get surprised when a click-bait gets you hostility.

He's talking nonsense, probably going only to bars and gyms. It depends on who makes the impression what communication skills he has and what environment he lives in . You have to earn the trust of Poles

Individual regions in Poland also differ slightly from each other

It's idiotic to generalize because you can meet different people everywhere . Many Poles, if they started writing about the negatives in other countries, would provide much more brutal examples of negative behavior of residents of other countries. People usually live in their own bubble and often describe their own subjective experiences.

If someone doesn't know Polish slides on the surface

I have many polish friends from all over the country and they will all say the same things I'm saying.

Hiding behind and American base while Ukraine fights to protect you. Yeah... some real "ass kicking"..

I wanna learn Russian because it's infinitely more useful than Polish. Much of Eastern Europe and almost all of Central Asia speaks Russian. Not everything is about politics, chill

@WheresWes you should chill you made a stupid statement. No one uses Russian unless your from a sh*thole central Asian Republic. If you like Russia so much move there and let's see how much they like Asian Americans.

You sound like a Nazi bro ! Russian is in the top 10 languages of the world spoken by around 500 million people worldwide. In every country in the world there are people who understand or speak Russian.

This KZfaqr is into dating; he is not thinking about politics and history. This is a dating channel. Both Russia and Poland produce smart and beautiful women who also like to move to a western countriy like the USA to live. A perfect match!

It's a channel about travel and my life, which sometimes includes dating. Don't wanna move back to the US, don't know where you got that idea.​@@aniwee17