I was thinking about the subject of this article for a long time. Many good topics were considered and it dawned on me almost in the last minute!
I would like to open a debate about the Polish culture. Below I have listed several changes in Polish cinematography, customs and food. I hope that such popular and obvious things won’t make you bored. Enjoy☺
Polish movie
If I ask you about the most famous movies from your childhood I guess you will mention “E.T.”, “Home alone” or “Lion King.”
What about “Akademia pana Kleksa”, “Awantura o Basię” and “Panna z mokrą głową”? Do you remember them?
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If not, don’t be ashamed. My little brother has never heard of them! In his life there is only a place for Marvel super heroes. Nonetheless, when I was watching “Czterej pancerni i pies” with him, I couldn’t stop peeking at him as he was smiling during the whole movie.
I believe Polish movies (especially the old ones) are worth watching, but people shouldn’t compare them to the American ones since they are definitely different. While the American movies are overloaded with emotions, the Polish ones present adventures rather than melodramatic moments.! However, lately, Polish films have changed. Have you ever seen “Kamienie na szaniec”? Of course I mean the latest version of this movie. I have, and in my opinion it fits better the American pattern rather than the Polish one.
Polish holidays
The significance of American holidays such as Valentine’s Day and Halloween has
increased recently in our country. I am against it. However, it seems that while celebrating the foreign events, we have completely forgotten about their equivalents and truly Polish customs like “Noc Kupały” and “Katarzynki”. While the first resemble Valentine’s Day, the second was an opportunity for men to do magic in order to get to know their future wife.
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I know that those customs were forgotten and ignored long time ago, but please bear in mind that we have celebrated in the Polish calendar holidays like “Andrzejki”,”Barbórki”, “Mikołajki” which are not as popular as American holidays. What a pity.
Polish Cuisine
Finally, I would like to focus your attention to modern Polish cuisine. Once at the Polish TED conference, Karol Okrasa was talking about Polish meals hardly anybody knows.
My hobby is collecting old books. Someday I bought “Współczesna kuchnia domowa” which was written by Alina Gniewkowska. I want to share with you the following recipes.
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All of them are delicious. I recommended them especially during summer time.
Do you know that foreigners really like our sweets?
Wedel is an old Polish company founded in 1851. It is not as famous as “Mozartkugel” or Milka, but everybody who tasted “Ptasie mleczko” told me that it tastes second to none.
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Anyway, a Wedel chocolate lounge in Szpitalna street looks more spectacular than any Starbucks café I have ever seen.
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All things considered, I have every reason to believe that we don’t need to change our culture and look for inspirations and influence in the foreign one because our own is unique. Don't get me wrong. I’m not closed for other cultures, but I think that we should appreciate and value our own.
Do you like the abovementioned changes? Is there any Polish thing you appreciate the most?
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ReplyDeleteI think that we’re still celebrating Andrzejki and Mikołajki. I remember that I loved 6th of December when I was a kid. A guy dressed as St Nicolas came to our school and gave us sweets and small toys and we were so afraid of him. (Many years later I was playing the same role in children’s house and those kids were afraid of me – I’m really glad that usually children love “Snowflake Lady”, because without her it would be a disaster!)
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed Karol’s Okrasa presentation – we have fantastic cuisine and my belly is still recovering after Easter, but…. It was worth it!
I think that the problem is we are not fully aware of our heritage. (I really recommend reading more about “ComeAndComplain” Action - https://www.youtube.com/user/ComeAndComplain).
We named many polish companies here
(http://konwersatorium3.blogspot.com/2014/03/week3-entrepreneurship-in-poland.html), we’ve talked about patriotism here
(http://konwersatorium3.blogspot.com/2013/11/national-day-celebration-on.html), we don’t have to be ashamed of our tradition or achievements. We only have problem with bad decisions, especially when we are supposed to vote.
Thanks Jakub for your opinion. I'm so glad that you agree with me.
DeleteI watched few movies of “ComeAndComplain” campaign, but I cannot find any relation to this article. Moreover I cannot agree that poles like complaining. The stereotypes of Polish people complaining are really unfair. I know many Poles who are positive attitude towards life. I'm pretty sure that you also.
The relation which I was hoping to point out is that because we are not fully aware of our own culture and tradition, we're often saying that western is better and we do not have anything (as a country) to be proud of. In my opinion "Dziady" were much "cooler" than Halloween, but we do not celebrate those any more, but we are still pouring wax during Andrzejki!
DeleteJakub, I think you have misunderstood sentence about those holidays. I didn't mention that we have stopped celebrating "Andrzejki" or "Mikołajki". I wrote that I'm afraid that those customs are not as popular as foreign ones.
Delete"However, it seems that while celebrating the foreign events, we have completely forgotten about their equivalents and truly Polish customs like “Noc Kupały” and “Katarzynki”. [...] I know that those customs were forgotten and ignored long time ago, but please bear in mind that we have celebrated in the Polish calendar holidays like “Andrzejki”,”Barbórki”, “Mikołajki” which are not as popular as American holidays."
DeleteI understood it literally, that we do not celebrate those at all.
Jakub, It looks like I added one word more than I wanted :)
DeleteI will correct this. Please keep in mind that I don't think that we don't celebrate those holidays.
Ok, ok :) Small misunderstanding, but now everything is clear :)
DeleteEwa, it is a great topic! Luckily I was born in '80s, so I had a chance to “taste” a little bit of polish culture. As a youngster I watched "Akademia Pana Kleksa", "Król Maciuś" and "Przyjaciel wesołego diabła" (thinking about Diabeł Piszczałka gives me goosebumps even now, after all these years). I admired Janosik and I wanted to be like Janek from “Czterej pancerni i pies”. When it comes to polish cuisine: my mom is a great traditionalist in this field and thanks to her my childhood was full of polish flavors! Blueberry soup, apple soup (called Garus), fruit dumplings, yeast cake, doughnuts, raspberry tomatoes – there was nothing better in the world!
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I cannot tell if there is something polish that I appreciate the most. While living my everyday life, doing my chores, I do not consider what is and what is not a part of polish culture. But pertaining to categories you listed above: I rarely watch polish movies and polish TV series. Polish productions do not blast me at all. Of course, there are movies that thrilled me ("Dom zły", "Miś", "Dług", "Znachor", "Nie lubię poniedziałku"), but honestly I prefer to spend time watching foreign pictures. When it comes to holidays: I do not celebrate Valentine's Day and Halloween, but I do not celebrate any of the polish holidays you have pointed out either. What I appreciate very much is the native cuisine. Thanks to my mother I often eat typically polish meals (for example: stuffed cabbage rolls, pork chop with potatoes or Silesian potato dumplings). I like these flavors, and I am glad that I have a chance to savor them not only on special occasions.
I think that we keep on forgetting about our culture’s values and this is a result of the globalization process. There is no way to avoid globalization, and we are a subject to it as any other society around the world. Globalization is strictly connected with unification, so that is why Poles absorb many cultural patterns from western countries. I guess that these patterns give us a feeling of better, much more interesting or more valuable lives. And when Polish people begin to compere western culture with our own, the our turns out to be unattractive and insufficient, so that is why we do not cultivate it in every day life.
Thanks Piotr. Your childhood was so eventful.
DeleteMaybe the reason that you prefer non-polish movies is that you see foreign trailers and commercials more often than polish ones.
I think you are right that globalization process have caused changes in polish customs. However I opinie that we don't know how attractive is our culture for foreigners. We should share it with other.
It is true: most of us do not realize that our culture can be really interesting for the foreigners. But we have to remember, that because of globalization the culture became a part of market and it is governed by its basic rule: it has to be sold. I have an impression that in Poland only few people are aware of that and think how in attractive way encourage the outlanders to absorb the cultural patterns from us.
DeleteLike Piotr I remember all the movies you mentioned. I like “Akademia Pana Kleksa” till now, but being an adult I see it a bit differently...(that’s a bit strange movie to be honest;) There’s lot’s of old Polish movies e.g. those made by Bareja and I often watch them. They are great because even if you have seen them once you can watch them all over again, and again... I think you may be exaggerate a bit – like Jakub I think we still celebrate lots of old traditional events, we make traditional food and and have some good Polish movies like those I’ve recalled. And although I’m definitely missing some celebrations on “Katarzynki” I don’t expect that the world will stop and nothing will evolve or change.. It’s natural, that foreigners are bringing their culture to Poland and that we share ours abroad.
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ReplyDeleteI really like our classes! I was pretty sure many people are not proud of Poland since - yes, I think stereotypes ae not going out from nowhere - a lot of Poles complain. And complain a lot.
Fortunately here we have another article changing my point of view. Thank you!
I think Polish culture is very unique. We have a lot of elements which are known and appreciated aborad - and it is not only vodka. I belive we also appreciate our culture and we knw it is very differential, even between regions. We just forgetting about it in our daily life.
There are movies listed in the article which are very close to my heart. It's said that children today don't know them but we can't forget about generational differences - we were also interested in different things, movies, books, etc. than our parents.
I totally agree that polish cinematography is underestimated. Our movies are different but it doesn't mean they are not so good as American ones. If everything on the wold were the same everywhere, this world would be just... boring.
3) I’ve seen Akademia Pana Kleksa, but Awantura o Basię and Panna z Mokrą Głową I only know from their book originals. I can not agree about Polish cinema showing adventures rather than emotions, but it is a complex topic, but I would say the complete opposite – Polish cinema shouldn’t be showing adventure, because in my opinion the only good pieces are the very heavy existential/social ones, and action or adventure cinema never had any position in Poland.
ReplyDeleteAbout the holidays – I’m also not a fan of Halloween in Poland, and it seems a bit ridiculous with our background, maybe a bit artificial.
Polish cuisine? I like it, it is not very fancy though :). I prefer lighter food, more vegetables, but pierogi, kluski śląskie, rolada, barszcz – these sound like a family dinner!
I agree with you that we underestimate the Polish culture and the achievements of Poles. To your list I would add a few people of the film branch, like the talented directors Roman Polański (probably he most award-winning Polish director), Agnieszka Holland or Andrzej Wajda. Another worldwide known filmmaker is Janusz Kamiński - a great cinematographer and a double Oscar winner. What makes me sad, however, is the fact that in order to make career many talented Poles go abroad, as they don't have conditions to develop in our country.
ReplyDeleteOh! - Reminds me of childhood and waiting for a Good Night movie!
ReplyDeleteToday when I'm mom I'd like to show my child all the things that I liked when I was in her age. But she is much more interested in her "life" and she prefers her movies, her books.
The difference between our culture and west culture is the color. Everything that is proposed today is colorful and fun. And children like it.
As one of you said people in Poland like complaining and like being grey, and this is true everywhere.
I was thinking for almost whole week what it he polish thing I like most - and I did not think that out, I have no idea - maybe sweets?
I don't like these changes, I would like to be proud of my culture, celebrate and create it. Where it comes to Polish traditional holidays, I think religion has had intention to kill it, because they are pagan holidays. I appreciate Polish meat and bread make in traditional way. My family and their friends are always making traditional sausage and bread with the real passion and without any "chemical components". The taste of it is great! It can't be even compared to what we can buy in the shop.
ReplyDeleteI like history. When you look at history of Poland and America one thing that comes to my mind is compering Adult to a child. Poland have more than 1000 years of experience as a nation. We have been in the past a European main power. We had have our borders from Baltic to Black Sea. We have had the most courageous people during second WW. We should be cherishing our best moments and look with faith in future. We always manage despite of any odds.
ReplyDeleteI had watched most of movies that you mentioned Ewa. I’m proud to be a Pole.
Polish Cuisine
ReplyDeleteKarol Okrasa's presentation is very interesting.
I like Polish cuisine. I also remember very delicious dishes made by my mother and
grandmother when I was child.
We should uphold traditional Polish cuisine because this is delicious and healthy food.
I would recommend the program for all interested in the Polish cuisine " Okrasa łamie przepisy" -http://vod.tvp.pl/audycje/kulinaria/okrasa-lamie-przepisy
Polish movie
I have fond memories about Polish films such as "Akademia Pana Kleksa" "Janosik" "Czterej pancerni i pies" "Czterdziestolatek"
There are few Polish films which I like to watch even now.
These are films that you can watch several times.
Polish holidays
Such Polish holidays as "Andrzejki" and "Mikołajki" are still celebrated in Poland but you are right that they are not as popular as American holidays.
The Polish festivals such as "Noc Kupały" and "Katarzynki" I have to admit that I have not heard about them.
I think that there are probably more people like me.
I was reminded of a few movie titles:
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"daleko od szosy"
"kogel mogel"
I have been couple of months ago to Wedel on Szpitalna's street - the interior of this place is really something nowdays, I have seen similar inside also in San Lorenzo in Warsaw (although I have not been in a lot of places there - would be great to hear about places like that!). Chocolate is really good - to be honest, not as good as Belgian's one (bow before them @Brussels!) - the taste is just different, great place for a date anyway ;)
ReplyDeleteIs still polish? I suppose yelling "pierogi!" would tell everybody who you are ;)
I am really impressed by the picture of Alina Gniewskowska "Współczesna kuchnia domowa" - and for sure I will search for this book to try it out! Any ideas where (if it is possible at all) I can find it?
I think that you can try find it in antique shop. It is very popular book. This option is very nice, because maybe then you find something else, some treasure ;) I bought my in antique shop which is on Tamka street. I really recommend this one. Other option is try to find it in the Internet (for example on Allegro). As I mentioned, this book is still very popular, so I'm pretty sure that you will find one without any problems.
DeleteI admire all the things you have mentioned. However I think we can benefit from globalization. The world is open to us in almost every aspect.Our "freedom" of choice is actually unlimited. Thanks to that you can pick whatever floats your boat, wherever you are. I am a great fan of TV series, and sadly most of Polish productions are way behind the foreign ones. I am also keen on Polish cousine but I can't imagine eating it all the time. I belive that diversity makes our lives more interesting. We don't have to change our culture to enjoy some things brought to us by other cultures.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you when it comes to polish recipes - I wish we used it more. There should be more restaurants with polish cuisine then places with pizza, kebab and chinese food. For example, there is a great polish fast food in the center of Warsaw serving polish "zapiekanka" - I really love it.
ReplyDeleteAnna where is this fast food? Could you give me address of this place?
DeleteOf course I can remember abovementioned. I've just found some very old and weird series about WOW. I wonder how many of you even know this one
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN--fR4_OyI
Interesting topic indeed.
ReplyDeleteI can provide a view of a person who "met" polish culture only 5 years ago.
When I moved to Poland I knew nothing about polish culture. I've seen none of polish movies, heard none of polish songs and was eating pork with mash potatoes having no idea it's called "schabowy" :)
Unfortunately, polish culture is not really known outside Poland or at least it's my impression. I think in general: Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Slovakian, Bulgarian and even Russian cultures is foreseen by the world as being a mix. Something that can be called: a Slavonic culture.
When I got into polish culture a bit more I found it to be ... well, as any other to be honest, there are great example: movies, songs, books, dishes! There are not so great examples.
In overall, the most important I believe is to support your own culture and don't get it disappear. Entire world benefits from the amount of cultures we have in it.
I appreciate our cuisine. We have tasty breadstuff, smoked meats, pierogi of course… According to Okrasa’s speech, there is a lot of goods to be proud of :) I love to look inside the old cookbooks, because of the forgotten recipes and the way they descriped preparation of food. I really like the recipes you shared. By the way, some time ago I bought very interesting cookbook: it contains outdated recipes for cakes and sweets popular in the times of PRL. They are very simple, but tasty and it reminds me flavours of childhood. http://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/127283/ciasta-ciastka-i-takie-tam
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion it’s disappointing that we and other Europe citizens got Americanized because we as a Europe have much more to offer as it comes to culture than US. I love our history our monuments, antiques and food. As it comes to cinema I appreciate 60-90’s productions more than 2000’s+. I can’t stand the change We are coming through, but I know that we have to follow if we want to survive in this world.
ReplyDeleteI admire all things you have mentioned.
ReplyDeleteI like Polish cuisine, it's really tasty and in my opinion it's quite healthy food. Maybe our dishes should be more colorful but for me taste it's the most important thing.
I love old Polish films such as "Akademia Pana Kleksa" "Janosik". I have some films which I can watch several times.
Such Polish holidays as "Andrzejki" and "Mikołajki" are celebrated in Poland but they aren't as popular as American Holiday.I haven't heard about "Katrzynki" festival for me it's new one
I really like polish culture and cuisine. I also think that Valentine's day and Haloween are artificial changes in our tradition and they shouldn't be so widely appreciated. We also have our holidays like that, so why do we prefer american ones? :). I like polish cinematography and I don't underestimate it. My favourite polish movie is Kogel mogel, I can watch it again and again and again and it doesn't make me bored at all. Also Sami swoi – the classic polish humor. Polish cuisine is really good for me, we should be proud of it, it is original, full of taste and made with the best products. I can surely say that I am proud of our culture and traditions.
ReplyDeleteI like both polish and american culture and I think that there is nothing wrong in celebrating Valentine's Day and we should draw good things from other cultures, if they don't contradict with our own. For example I never celebrate Halloween because the next day we have All souls' day. I admire old polish cinematography, old comedies like Kogel Mogel, Poszukiwany poszukiwana or Killer always make me lough but I can't watch new ones which aspire to funny american movies but this is not the same. Polish cuisine is, in my opinion, best in the world. I love pierogi, żurek and barszcz, I could eat it insted of spaghetti, pizza or sushi. We have a very old and rich tradition and I am proud of my country
ReplyDeleteFrom all polish things it's the language that I appreciate the most. There's no equal for polish language when it comes to expressional values or grammar possibilites! You can express so much in our language, that it's a shame there's no REAL polish classes in schools. But as for polish cuisine, I have to say, it's one of the most unhealthy and inappropriate foods in the world, so I don't recommend sticking to the tradition in this cause...
ReplyDeleteI think we should definitely cherish polish customs, especially the more atmospheric ones. I'm certainly not against adopting foreign holidays or cuisine, but I believe that we should do that on our own terms instead of being flooded by sales and commercials.
ReplyDeleteI remember I had a difficult time trying to introduce my family and friends from abroad with polish cuisine. I honestly just couldn't think of anything other than a portion of pierogis or schabowy to show them. I was feeling really ashamed and just thinking 'polish culture is just so much more than that!'. And I think that sentence really defines it. There's not really an aspect that I outright love about polish culture on it's own, but all together they always bring a sense of nostalgia and coziness. I'm always proud to be from Poland, with it's ridiculously difficult language, proud history and even prouder inhabitants.
I think i'm not a big fan of those changes and celebrating 'not our' holidays because i really hate valentine's day. Too much pink and hearts everywhere, not mentioning avanalche of so-in-love-couples kissing all the time. I find it just gross. If you really have to love each other so much that day don't make a show from it at least. It don't look that cute like you may think it is. And cartoons for children! Where is "Miś uszatek" and such? Why kids watch only weird things like Adventure time, when we have Bolek i Lolek or Koziołek Matołek? I was watching it all childhood and still when i somehow find it on tv I really gladly watch it! When i was waching it with sround 7-years old boy he was like "?" all the time, but he loves Ben10 and such. It's just sad.
ReplyDeleteAnd about food - there will be never anything more tasty than gołąbki cooked by my mum ;)
All those changes are the parts of globalization. We should have polish culture, but we are influenced by west civilization and there is no way out. For a long, long time Poland was behinf the iron curtain. Because of that some tradition survived. The second factor it that in poland religion is strong and doing well. It's a big support for traditions in our country.
ReplyDeleteI remember only "akademia Pana Kleksa" unfortunately I'm from the younger generation. But what polish style in film means for you? Called film "polish" is unfair definition. Polish cinematography develops, we have alredy won an oscar. So Maybe we are a littlepart of global cinematography?
As for me, I am from Belarus, but I like some polish things. For example I very like a "Żurek" soup. I prepare it by myself and eat with pleasure. I like a book of Dolęga-Mostowicz "Znachor" and a moovie too.
ReplyDeleteI think that all the changes, that bring people fun are good if these changes don't bring to dependence on other countries. In this case such changes like appearance of valentine's day are fine. This brings people joy, so why not? But it is importent to ot to forget about traditions and history of your countrie and appreciate them.
I do not like the changes in the Polish culture. Too we derive from Western culture, and have their own! After all, our films are not at all inferior to the US, and indeed often a much better, more interesting and more valuable. Major influences of other cultures can be seen in naszyk language, which is a pity, because he is really rich and amazing. According to me, the best part of Polish culture is the Polish cuisine. Polish soup, roast, dumplings, cabbage rolls and cakes are unique and tastier than eg pizza, spaghetti, hamburgers.
ReplyDeleteI can't decided waht to choose. I like Polish culture, it's normal, everybody should know as much as we can about our country, culture, history etc. But in fact I don't like old polish films, I prefere new ones maybe because I prefere fantasy and horrors.
ReplyDeleteFrom different side I love to meet another cultures, I like to watch film or read books from other contries than Poland.
In XXI century we have got multicultural nations and lots of children don't know anything about their country culture - it's sad. In my opinion they should learn more about it in schools, also parents can spend more time with their children to show them differences beetwen our Polish "things" and foreign.
Times have changed, it’s normal. Noc kupały isn’t forgotten because of American holidays but because of Christians who wanted to destroy Slavic beliefs. Neo-pagan societies are getting more popular (reportage about this (in polish): http://www.magiel.waw.pl/2016/11/styl-zycia/w-subiektywie/nieszkodliwi-wariaci/). Also Halloween is just Hollow night eve, which is next day. We forgot about our traditional cousin because our mothers and their mothers didn’t learn us about this. It also changed in time of war and after it when there was little to eat. We prefer foreign culture because it looks more attractive for us.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, but I also do not like the above-mentioned changes. In the past, Polish films were valuable, showed something more and had their own unique atmosphere. Currently, we can watch either romantic comedies, which are not funny at all, and love is shown in a very primitive way through sex and money or popular films by Patryk Vega, presenting in a very brutal way difficult topics. Nietety, you can rarely see a good movie of Polish production. However, there are the last ones on which I was the "Best" directed by Łukasz Palkowski.The disappearing wonderful Polish recipes and traditions are also not a source of pride. "This Polish Wedel chocolate is great, and Wedel cafes are much better than Starbucks.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I value Polish traditions the most. We have many holidays that we forget about, but we should cultivate them. The piety of Poles is also great. We should be proud of being Christian.
I really like the above mentioned changes. During the first year of my studies I took part in the "Polish Film Academy" classes. It was terribly boring! Especially movies from the 70's and earlier. The sound was awful - it sounded like a crackle. The next ones were more interesting - for example those with romantic themes! Despite this, I don’t want to watch these movies anymore.
ReplyDeleteIf we talk about holidays - I don’t even know everything which the author of this article exchanged. I’m very disappointed, that when I was a little girl, Halloween wasn’t celebrate in Poland. Religious doesn’t matter to me in this case. It was always my dream to ask for candy in the guise of a witch.
And something about Valentine's Day - I used to hate it, but I’ve thought it isn’t so bad since I’ve a boyfriend. ;)
. I think that not only Polish culture is changing. Each other takes over some customs and other things from pop culture. In spite of the changes, I also watched old Polish films such as "Akademia Pana Kleksa" or "Panna z mokrą głową". I think that traditional Polish dishes are still cooked in Polish regional cuisine, such as "kutia". In my opinion, traditional holidays such as "Katarzynki" disappears the most. Honestly, I haven’t heard about this before I read this article. I think that old Polish traditions have very interesting rituals and that is why we should take care of them and celebrate them.
ReplyDeleteI know such films like “Akademia pana Kleksa”, “Awantura o Basię” and “Panna z mokrą głową” and when I was a child I loved them! I think I accustom to changes. In my opinion celebrating holidays from other culture isn't bad as long as we will remeber and celebrate our tradition too. I think new Polish films can be good and interesting, and I think that some of them have special atmosphere, maybe not the same as old Polish movies, but still thaey have something Polish.
ReplyDeleteWell I guess above mentioned changes are good. The world should go on. There's nothing wrong with traditions but we should accept changes. They happen all the time and those people who don't understand it will be left behind. Old Polish films well they are different than American ones but not worse. Polish holidays - well I don't really know those mentioned in this article. But I guess there are reasons why I don't know them - maybe they weren't needed after all. Polish cuisine - that is always nice to have a national dishes but some of them like "bigos" or "kotlet schabowy" are not really good for your stomach. It's very heavy food. Wedel chocolate and "ptasie mleczko" are cool but they are really common in Poland.
ReplyDeleteI guess that what appreciate the most in Polnad is that in our country locations are no hurricanes or tsunamies.
I think that we are too enthralled western culture. We don't detect value of our culture. But it is really worth to recognision. Films such as "Sami swoi", "Kogel mogel", "Nie lubię poniedziałku" or "Chłopaki nie płaczą" are really chucklesome. Traditional polish dishes like hunter's stew, broth and cabbage rolls - are a cause for a lot of polish emigrants when they visit family in Poland can't get away from "richly lying in pledge" table. They want call familiar flavour to mind.
ReplyDeleteTherefore if we have our culture so close, we should grab from it.
Very interesting presentation! Polish culture in my opinion is one of the most divesified in the world. We celebrate our holiday in some set historical traditions. Nobody in the world has such beautiful Christmas trees in December like Polish people do. And does anybody observe this great tradition of foretelling from wax during "Andrzejki"? In Poland we took some foreign holidays in but is there anything wrong with it? It's nice that couples can celebrate their love in an extraordinary way one day in the year. And if someone enjoys a little bit of thrill, let them celebrate Halloween. You're not forced to anything but don't force others to uncompromisingly stick to one country customs.
ReplyDeleteI think that Polish culture is really rich and we don't need to be jealous of foreign cultures. In my opinion, process of acknowledging some elements into our culture is completely normal things and there no need to worry that Polish Culture could be extincted. There is still a lot of people and institutions which take care of Polish heritage. If it comes to Polish culture I am in love with our food and also I truly appreciate polish literaturę and music.
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate old polish movies! I remember them from my childhood. My favourite were "Kogel Mogel" and "Awantura o Basię". I always wanted to be a main character from the second movie, Basia. She was so beautiful. I also really like my grandmother's cuisine. Her dumplings are the best! I remember times, when we were making them together. Of course, I can't forget about Wedel's chocolate... It is my favourite! Tradicional milky chocolate is something I can eat EVERYTIME when I am hungry or when I just want to eat something sweet.
ReplyDeleteI really love our polish culture! I remember watching old movies with my parents, when I was a child and I recall it very nice. My number one is "Kogel Mogel" and its second part. And I truly have to say that this is one of my favourite movies ever, not only polish ones.
ReplyDeleteI also love polish cuisine and sweets. Wedel's chocolates remind me of my childhood, when my grandmother always bought me one, when she visited us. I also remember visiting a Wedel chocolate lounge and drinking hot chocolate. It was the best thing ever!