What are Polack Americans like?

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

This is not in Q&A because it's a serious question.

For you Yankees from Northern cities like Chicago or Milwaukee, what are the Polacks like? Are they as dumb and meatheaded as Archie Bunker said?

Everything I've ever read about them suggests that they're very based and hard-working conservative people, like a blue collar version of Cubans. I haven't read much about them though. I know that when George Wallace went to Milwaukee they sang a Polish version of Dixie and he said they were the most supportive population he met (more than in Alabama), because they (like other blue collar minorities in competition with them) hated the Blacks.

 

[KittyGremlin]

I don't know about their American diaspora, but they're like rednecks just Slavic and a bit smarter.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

we're on the Farms

 

[Spitz]

How many Polacks does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Nine. One guy to stand on the chair, the other eight to rotate it.

That's what they're like. Put this in Q&A next time.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Please refer yourself to the Nick Rekieta thread.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Did you hear the one about the Polish terrorist who tried to blow up a bus? He burned his mouth on the exhaust pipe.

That's what they're like. Fantastic baked goods when Lent comes around though.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

My family is Polish and we all went to college and are professionals. Heard a million dumb Polack jokes when I was a kid, never understood why so many think that we're dumb asses. My family is also quite conservative and hard working.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

My family is Polish and we all went to college and are professionals. Heard a million dumb Polack jokes when I was a kid, never understood why so many think that we're dumb asses.

For the same reason everyone knows blondes are dumb. Because we heard someone else say it.


(The actual story, alleged, behind blondes is that Jews had jokes about dumb German shiksas. They had to change that for gentile audiences when they started dominating American comedy and they slightly tweaked it to blondes, and also made them slutty. They basically astroturfed the stereotype into existence out of laziness and then it took on a life of its own due to vapid women's pressure to conform to the stereotype.)

 

[Time 4 Guillotines]

I know that area and I wouldn't have know I was speaking to one outside of their moonspeak surnames. From my experience they're indistinguishable.
I do remember my dad having a hate boner for them, what with the standard boomer jokes but that dude also had a weird grudge against the Lumbee tribe and I'm not sure how he even knew about them.
I don't get why modern Americans would even have an opinion on them. Seems like a relic from when we didn't have 60 varieties of shitskin to worry about

 

[Phenomena]

For you Yankees from Northern cities like Chicago or Milwaukee, what are the Polacks like? Are they as dumb and meatheaded as Archie Bunker said?

Chicagoan here. I work in construction and know a lot of Poles because I hire/manage them as subcontractors. Of all the immigrants, they're the best. Friendly, hardworking, responsible. If there is a choice, I will always choose Polish subcontractors for a job over Latinos.

Here in Chicagoland they congregate mostly in Niles, IL so I do not interact with them outside of work environment. But Niles is considered as one of the safest communities here (low crime, conservative, no niggers) so, that's it.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I know that area and I wouldn't have know I was speaking to one outside of their moonspeak surnames. From my experience they're indistinguishable.
I do remember my dad having a hate boner for them, what with the standard boomer jokes but that dude also had a weird grudge against the Lumbee tribe and I'm not sure how he even knew about them.
I don't get why modern Americans would even have an opinion on them. Seems like a relic from when we didn't have 60 varieties of shitskin to worry about

Was your dad a North Carolinian that went North?

 

[millais]

Some of them claim to be Italians like this guy >

 

[Time 4 Guillotines]

Was your dad a North Carolinian that went North?

Nope, that's why it's bizarre.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Nope, that's why it's bizarre.

I'm sorry to tell you this, but your father may have been autistic.

 

[dvnc]

I'm amazing. Just ask Slav.

 

[Ed Weed]

Don't know. I'm from the Ozarks everyone here is either Scotch irish or other British isles (myself) German or mexican..

 

[Skitarii]

Pol-ACKs live 6 feet underground

 

[Spitz]

Anecdotally speaking, in all seriousness, Polish Americans have the best sense of humor and excel at wordplay, both with their language as well as English. They can break balls and self-deprecate better than any other people, and they appreciate banter, so long as it's not malicious. They're critical of authority and when authority fucks up they make some hilarious parody and satire of it, unlike the usual banal complaining that a lot of other people do.

The ones I know are hard-working and get jobs done right the first time. They hate dealing with bureaucracies, even though they're capable of finding ingenious ways of screwing with/working around them, and they generally believe the government should mind its own business and not get in the way of private progress as much as it does.

I've told the light bulb joke to people of Polish heritage, and they liked it because I wasn't saying it maliciously, and it speaks some truth to how they can be group-oriented. They definitely don't like being called "Polack" and "Polish American" is some corpo-bureau-authority-speak that the government or some other untrustworthy, powerful entity would push, so it's better to just call them by the name they give you.

I recommend earning their trust and friendship. They're great people who'll be there for you, thick or thin, and they've got some great things from their culture that they're happy to share.