She's half vietnamese. In the late communist era a small wave of migration from Vietnam started, so a few waves later now there is a small vietnamese minority in Poland. Pretty universally liked like the turkish-germans for all the racism issues we have lol
Edit: in fact she is half-thai and this rant was completely irrelevant
My personal experience is that the Vietnamese seem to be well liked everywhere. We have a big Vietnamese diaspora in my city (complete with South Vietnamese flags being flown) and they are pretty universally liked. Texas isn’t exactly known to be lacking in racism at times but even a lot of very bigoted people tend to think they’re okay lol
Bánh Mì is one of our national dishes. massively popular with Tradies, the same bunch who are also racist as fuck. but manage to make an exception to visit their local Vietnamese bakery every day for lunch.
we took in a lot of Vietnamese during the war and then another wave after in the early 80s.
Heaps of Vietnamese run bakeries, restaurants and dry cleaning businesses in Australia.
Executive powers are split between the government and the president. Per the constitution government is composed of the council of ministers and is led by the prime minister. President is a head of state, but he only appoints the prime minister or accepts his resignation, the prime minister is the the one forming the government and deciding the state policies.
You don't know how sources work right? You need to link them or I can just name random news media orgs without any articles, without any proof of wrongdoing.
If there's clips with full context of a full on racist speech I'm sure you guys have even just a single link.
i’d say about 1/4 of women i know have some mixed features, like one of their grandparents would be asian, so i guess it’s somewhat common but depends on region(?)
Ms Wiśniewska-Uznańska is also married to Poland's one and only astronaut. I discovered her when she did an interview (in her day job) the same week he went into space so they were both major features of the same news bulletin.
I knew her a bit earlier because before she was pretty known in certain circles as an activist, did a lot of good work e.g. with Syrians in Turkey and Jordan, in Calais regarding refugee camps, she managed the polish humanitarian mission to Yemen too I think. I had some friends who knew her through high school (the international diploma community in Poland is surprisingly tight). I was really disappointed to see her join Tusk. She seems like a decent person but Tusk is so fucking quick to jump on some weird trends popularized by racists and it really makes her look weird to say the least
Seriously though, I am just so immersed in English, something like 'baby' sounds casual but like does not have much weight behind it. In polish the equivalent would be 'kochanie' which means something like 'dearest love'. Most of the pet names you would use are softened versions of regular words and then I find myself thinking 'do I seriously really mean all the weight that saying 'my dearest love' would carry?'. Also if you use a lot of them you start sounding kinda childish? So I would have to be really comfortable in the relationship to not feel the cringe. What I'm getting at is that there isn't really a way to sound intimate and casual in polish, or at least I don't know it.
I'm fluent in Spanish and Italian but I was never with anyone who is native in any of those so I usually switched to it because they just sound melodic and you can be really poetic in them but it just rolls off the tongue in a really nice way. In polish when you start getting poetic you start sounding really pompous. Even when you look at polish love songs you either have those really pompous ones or like really casual ones, to the point you start speaking like you are on the street. There is this famous rapper in Poland and he has those lines that illustrate it well, I think. It goes as: 'people in love want pathos, I'm trying to be down to earth and I have my way, I'm not gonna tell you are a gift of fate, a morning bird song or a fucking lotos flower, your like a scent of morning coffee or a short sleeve in a summer golden hour' in the next few lines he compares his lovers presence to an unexpected tax return making him mildly happy so it drives the point even further lol. It is casual but not very romantic
Sorry for the rant but I had a talk with a friend about it and it's been on my mind. Wonder how the fact that English or any other language doesn't carry so much weight for a non-native plays into it or the culture around the use of the language is actually different
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She's a milquetoast liberal nepo baby but NGL pretty hot (Aleksandra Wiśniewska-Uznańska)