My favorite nutbag professor, mostly, and all the other Poles I've met have been pretty awesome. That, and I have a bit of a thing for Slavic countries.
Well, I was confused really.
That far my ancestry only earned me a lot of hostility, bad jokes and discrimination.
The best I get is people wanting me to teach them foul polish language (another thing slavic countries are pretty good at), which makes me feel like some sort of circus animal.
So I'm a bit perplexed, that anyone would call it "neat".
The humor, the dark outlook on life[...]
Communism is a great catalyst for those things.
The Russians are even better at it, as far as I know.
[...]the way people are shaped by brutal weather.
Aside from the harsh winters in the more northern areas, the weather seems pretty normal to me.
Summers are actually more enjoyable though.
The cultural reverence for hospitality and honor.
Its history has always been interesting, especially the medieval part.
Democratically elected kings.
Popes bringing down communism.
And so on.
Plus, there's the "simple Pole in a complex plane" joke...
Never heard of it.
I also like small countries, especially ones with beautiful scenery and landmarks >_<
This actually made me raise an eyebrow, until I remembered "Oh! By US standards. Of course!".
And I love a language that lets Z and W be standalone words. The spelling is fascinating, and I can't wait to compare and contrast it to Russian. It just sounds so wonderful ~ I love tasting it.
Well it's interesting on one sinde and a real pain on the other side.
The language shows a lot of creativity with Z, C, R and combinations of them.
We even have a special version of the letter O, which sounds identically to U.
Well it looks like you are even more multilayered, than I actually thought.