#I wouldn't tell a Polish person what a pierogi is

[wellitsangela]

1. Kraków my home town, although I no longer live in Poland, Krakow will always have a special place in my heart.

2. I've traveled my country a lot when I was young, now I prefer to travel abroad.

3. Yes, Baltic sea.

4. Come on its obvious, pierogi!

5. Don't have one.

6. Every.

7. Szlachetna - honorable, wyimaginowany- imaginated, miłość- love.

8. With plenty: Russians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Czechs, Belarusians. Mostly by people who have never been to Central Europe and Eastern Europe.

9. I've been to all of them, but strangely I'd like to travel more to Russia.

10. Kurwa.

11. Jarosław Boroszewicz.

12. I've only ever read Wisława Szymborska and Czesław Miłosz poetry translation but I think they're good.

13. It's hard to say, I don't think so.

14. No.

15. A duck is ruling out parliament.

16. Hate: that we're car thieves, agree on: that we're hardworking.

17. Yes, but only few parts. I'm picky with my history.

18. No, my language has only truly 2 dialect in two specific areas.

19. I like my flag and emblem but I honestly think that our anthem is garbage and Rota by Maria Konopnicka would by so much better.

20. Ski jumping or football, I can't tell.

21. Recip for pierogi and Mikołaj Kopernik's De Revolutionibus Orbitum Coelestium. In that particular order.

22. My history makes my proud, the fact that after 123 years of no Poland on the maps, two world wars and USSR regime for years after the 2WW we prevailed and we're still here. What makes my ashamed is our current state, homophobia, sexism, xenophobia, racism, imperialism, right wing government, bigotry.

23. Vodka, for obvious reasons. But I like to think beer is close.

24. Too many I think. I don't know why but poles like to mock people in general.

25. Yes I'd love to. But then I wouldn't have known one of the hardest languages to learn in world.

26. Rarely I'd say. But hey we have Dorota from Gossip Girl and she was a badass( the actress is Polish). Generally I don't like it. Too stereotypical.

27. Tbf I don't really know that much of celebrity life in Poland to have a say on who is my favorite. I have my favorite politician, does it count? Agnieszka Dziemianowicz- Bąk is the best!

28. We have lots of lakes in Mazury district, we have mountains Tatry, Sudety and Karpaty. And we habe lots of rivers. I'm not an outdoors person, hate mountains, like lakes but nothing really caught my eye.

29. Oh yeah. With our capital Warsaw. We hate each other.

30. Not yet but I have a hunch that I'll be the firs to marry outside my nationality.

“hi, I’m not from the US” ask set

given how Americanized this site is, it’s important to celebrate all our countries and nationalities - with all their quirks and vices and ridiculousness, and all that might seem strange to outsiders.

1. favourite place in your country?

2. do you prefer spending your holidays in your country or travel abroad?

3. does your country have access to sea?

4. favourite dish specific for your country?

5. favourite song in your native language?

6. most hated song in your native language?

7. three words from your native language that you like the most?

8. do you get confused with other nationalities? if so, which ones and by whom?

9. which of your neighbouring countries would you like to visit most/know best?

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?

11. favourite native writer/poet?

12. what do you think about English translations of your favourite native prose/poem?

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

14. do you enjoy your country’s cinema and/or TV?

15. a saying, joke, or hermetic meme that only people from your country will get?

16. which stereotype about your country you hate the most and which one you somewhat agree with?

17. are you interested in your country’s history?

18. do you speak with a dialect of your native language?

19. do you like your country’s flag and/or emblem? what about the national anthem?

20. which sport is The Sport in your country?

21. if you could send two things from your country into space, what would they be?

22. what makes you proud about your country? what makes you ashamed?

23. which alcoholic beverage is the favoured one in your country?

24. what other nation is joked about most often in your country?

25. would you like to come from another place, be born in another country?

26. does your nationality get portrayed in Hollywood/American media? what do you think about the portrayal?

27. favourite national celebrity?

28. does your country have a lot of lakes, mountains, rivers? do you have favourites?

29. does your region/city have a beef with another place in your country?

30. do you have people of different nationalities in your family?