[ShepherdsDog]

Canada did quite well with immigrants who arrived from central and eastern Europe in the past...the Ukrainians are actually starting to lose their accents.... finally

[Thanos]

Still can't shake the smell of onions and garlic just yet. It's a generational thing with those goofy bohunks.

Just send us the gals from Polish Busty. The rest of them can all fuck off back to Lvov.

[EyeBrock]

Jonny_C Jonny_C:

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

It's the Sun. Tits, shagging and sports.

I've seen the same kind of comments about the Daily Mail. Yet it has its plusses. You can't find better pictorial coverage of certain things than in the Mail.

As far as Polish workers for Canada are concerned, I think that if we want immigrants, Poles are great.

The Mail used to be a decent broadsheet. They are now really the top end of the tabloids and have a very successful web site. It's gossip with a right of centre slant with maybe a bit of news in the 'if it bleeds it leads' school of thought.

[ShepherdsDog]

One of my grand uncles(married to one of my maternal grandfather's sisters) was very indignant if you called him Ukrainian...he was adamant that his family was Austrian not some 'god be damnit bohunk' I spent my teen years near little Kiev. a shitload of -skis and -skys claimed to be Ukrainians. They are ethnic Poles. Hard to keep track of who is what in that area of the world as borders were constantly changing. As for onion and garlic, I love their food. Christmas wasn't Christmas without perogies, cabbage rolls and egg roll(not the chinese ones)...or kielbasa as an appetizer...and I'm talking about the Anglo Christmas on Dec. 25.

[EyeBrock]

Even us Irish types have Polish relatives. Cafflicks stick together. When we did the Ethiopia mission, the Poles worked with us rather than their Russian 'comrades'.

They were crazy but really good to work with. They took out Mil-2's to the DZ's for our air drops.

[ShepherdsDog]

The Poles have a long and nasty history with the Russians and Ukrainians...well nasty for the Ukrainians. Except for the period of Russian occupation the Poles have identified with the West(like the Czechs and Hungarians), culturally and religiously.

[Jonny_C]

Brenda Brenda:

You still have not figured out I am Dutch?

Just wanted to confirm.

$1:

Different generations, Jonny. Different circumstances. Different economic perspective.

Perhaps. And perhaps there might be a difference between the Poles who stay in Europe and the ones who make the big leap across the pond.

You seem to suggest a stereotype. I sometimes think that way myself, but I try to avoid it.

[Brenda]

Jonny_C Jonny_C:

Brenda Brenda:

You still have not figured out I am Dutch?

Just wanted to confirm.

$1:

Different generations, Jonny. Different circumstances. Different economic perspective.

Perhaps. And perhaps there might be a difference between the Poles who stay in Europe and the ones who make the big leap across the pond.

You seem to suggest a stereotype. I sometimes think that way myself, but I try to avoid it.

That's because you are awesome, and I am not because I have seen lot of people around me lose their jobs because Polish truckers could do with half the pay and sent most of that money to Poland. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. I have seen too many things happen with (in particular) Polish workers in The Netherlands to be able to welcome them.

I doubt ANY Pole would pay their own way to come here.

You don't want Roma either. Really, you don't.

[Gunnair]

It's not like the Dutch are out there in their clogs and bikinis and making our sammichs!

[martin14]

Gunnair Gunnair:

It's not like the Dutch are out there in their clogs and bikinis and making our sammichs!

That's some pretty black and white thinking there !


But you're right, they are too snooty and stuck up to make the sammies,

send us some blond Polish girls with big tits to make our sammichs !

[ShepherdsDog]

Joanna Krupa





small wonder the Germans were harvesting Poles to supplement their Aryan breeding program.

[Jonny_C]

Brenda Brenda:

That's because you are awesome, and I am not because I have seen lot of people around me lose their jobs because Polish truckers could do with half the pay

We have Pakistani truckers filling that niche already.

Roma can be a problem, yes.

[EyeBrock]

We should assess source countries candidates for the ability to integrate. Also citizenship should only be given if the PR can pass an English or French written and or conversational language test. If you really want to be a Canadian, you won't mind learning our language(s).

[Gunnair]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

We should assess source countries candidates for the ability to integrate. Also citizenship should only be given if the PR can pass an English or French written and or conversational language test. If you really want to be a Canadian, you won't mind learning our language(s).

Somewhat skewed to Western Europe and ignores all of those non English speakers that came here and made Canada great.

Oh well.

[EyeBrock]

They are our official languages. People should be able to communicate. It helps us all.