Your associations for Poland

[DominikS]

Since there's a topic for Croatia and Slovenia, I was wondering about your associations for my home country, Poland! So, what are they? -pl -pl -pl

Be honest!!

 

[ParadiseES]

Kaczinsky
Misi
Pope
Auchwitz
Ich Troje

 

[vatroslav_cro]

-Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) a great man and a big friend of our nation...I really appreciated him ... rest in peace;

-very friendly people;

-a lot of tourists from there in Croatia during the summer months;

-red and white coloured flag;

-very poor country during the communism era but today really successful country in transition and sometimes I envy to them because of it (but great things they did there)

 

[No Name]

There live a lot of Polish people in Denmark and generally I have a good impression about the Polish people and Poland as a country. Never been there myself but a lot of Danes tend to go there for short weekend-holidays.

These are some of my associations:

A beautiful capital (and lots of other beautiful cities)
An awesome language
Euro 2012-host
Volleyball
World War II
Racism (I hope I'm wrong about this one )

 

[DominikS]

Racism (I hope I'm wrong about this one )

Racism... well many people are 'casually' racist, but that's only because the only immigrants/minorities in Poland are Ukrainian. I'm sure that if Polish people were introduced to people from other countries then they would be more careful with what they say. But Poland is changing fast, too, so it'll wipe itself out soon, I think.

-very poor country during the communism era but today really successful country in transition and sometimes I envy to them because of it (but great things they did there)

Well actually until the 1970s we were rich, we actually were richer than Spain and some other countries. From 1991-2008 Poland's economy grew nearly as fast as China's, and Poland was 5th (I think) in the world by growth rate. However, Croatia's GDP per capita was higher than Poland's before the European recession, but now isn't since Poland didn't go into recession.

 

[aletem]

- Karol Bielecki, Marcin Lijewski, Karolina Kudlacz, Montex Lublin, Jerzy Dudek
- Agata Wrobel
- Beautiful people and people who suffered a lot
- wski
- polski fiat (pegla )
- makowiec/makovnjaca
- Maria Sklodowska
- Copernicus
- Roman Polanski

 

[mojca]

So, let's think about Poland this time
Honestly, first things that cross my mind are:
- Nice people, beautiful and interesting cities, but cold weather (I was in Krakow last year in Juny and it was soooo cold)
- Religion and Pope
- Funny language; I really like it, although I don't know a lot of words. It's a bit similar to Slovenian, they both are Slavic, but are also very different.
- Sad and bitter history, unfortunatelly :|
- Red colour; I don't know why, actually ... Maybe because some buildings from Poland that I have in mind are red and red is also on the flag
- Apples - yeah, because of this year's Eurovision appearance

That's it -pl

 

[Interrail]

- Difficult words for writing, reading, spelling)))))
- Frederik Chopin
- Andrzej Wajda (and Katyn film I think it got oscar?)
- Roman Polanski
- Agnieszka Radwanska
- Karolina Wozniacka (?)
- Lukas Podolski (?)
- ex-Pope
- Wizz Air (Polish/Hungarian?)
- US defense shield
- farmers, EU subsidies, good agriculture
- European bison wild animals
- Solidarity movement
- anti abortion
- THE plumber
- Friendly ppl
- Very well educated ppl
- Nation that travels a lot
- Most successful EU country in time of crisis
- EURO 2012

 

[Anjeza]

- kind ppl (and I mean REALLY kind ppl )
- Bigos, Obwarzanek, Pierogi, Barszcz, Ptasie mleczko (I love Polish food )
- beer
- wodka
- ?migus-dyngus
- Lichen Stary
- Cz?stochowa
- Auschwitz
- Krakow
- Adam Ma?ysz
- Karol Wojty?a
- Solidarno??
- Donald Tusk
- Lech Kaczy?ski
- Chopin
- Euro 2012
- nice language (W Szczebrzeszynie chrz?szcz brzmi w trzcinie, i Szczebrzeszyn z tego s?ynie, ?e chrz?szcz brzmi tam w Szczebrzeszynie.)

 

[lucian-crusher]

1. Gosia Andrzejewicz
2. EURO 2012
3. Not a beautiful language
4. Katowice
5. The fact that is the country who connects the Carpat Mountains with the Baltic Sea

 

[Isabella]

1. Kind and beautiful people (especially Marcin )
2. Euro 2012
3. Artur Boruc
4. Brothers Lijewski
5. lots of Polish tourists in Croatia
6. EU
7. beautiful country

 

[No Name]

Another association I have about Poland are the babushka-dolls. I love'em

 

[Milos-BC]

Warsav
Euro 2012
Marcin
They have very common things with Serbia
Kaczinsky

 

[Kristi]

-Kind people
-Karol Wojtyla
-Euro 2012
-Flowers
-DominikS
-Lukas Podolski&Miroslav Klose
-Polish Tourists in Albania
-Has always opposed Russia
-Beautiful Country

 

[goktengri]

euro 2012
kingdom of poland
lech kacinski
peja
nice country