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Thank you for your translation of the comments. Given their accuracy, they’re good insight into Polish thought about WWII–and the Jewish people–now that it is so many years later.
Poland lost its aristocracy as the result of both World Wars. Didn’t Poland’s aristocracy, however, force the Jews into ghettos that went beyond the natural shtetls? (By ‘natural’, I mean people who’ve not been ‘absorbed’ into a community–for whatever reason–need to cling together in ‘ethnic’ communities.)
The thing is, being Jewish is like being Arab–they’re both Semetic and all part of the one race that’s human. Being Jewish can also mean following a given religion but so can being Arab.
Should we continue to segregate and condemn people based on race, creed, or ethnicity?
Poland is a place almost completely devoid of Jewish blood, it’s not surprising there is resentment from God’s chosen people. God apparently has made Poland unsafe for them. Perhaps not coincidentally, Poland also has some of the most beautiful women in the world.
What i’m saying is people with similairites whether Biological, Ideological or Tempermental tend to prefer the company of those similar to them, without any need for ouside pressures or restrictions.
That’s just a convenient excuse for the people who want to believe it, SG. There’s no real truth to it. Have you heard the expression “Living outside the Pale?” It comes from Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great. She created a settlement zone called The Pale. Jews weren’t allowed to settle inside the Pale. In Nurnberg, Germany, the Bavarian King gave the Jews land within the city walls–it was the swamp land surrounding the river. They weren’t allowed to live anywhere else. The shtetls in Russia, Poland, and other European countries kept the Jews separated to the point where the developed their own language–Yiddish–a combination of the Germanic and Hebrew languages.
Would you like to be forced to live only within a certain area?
Personal Experiance and observation says otherwise.
This in no way contradicts what I said, I said people with similarites tend to stick together. Simply because their can be outside influences that force the issue in cetain cases in no way contradicts this.
Certainly, my last comment was irrelevant, in a way. It was a way to end a post. It was also an attempt to get you to think beyond the ordinary.
In the meantime, your personal observations and experience–if that’s what you’re basing your comments on–don’t really mean a tittle, since, because they’re observations, they must be biased, or at least tinged with your bias. That’s why I asked my question.
In my mind, you’ve contributed little or nothing to the idea of anti semitism–in Poland, Germany, the US, Russia. It’s nothing to be ashamed of–unless you go around shooting Jews or burning crosses in people’s front yards! Everyone has biases of one sort or another. It’s whether or not a person acts on those biases and hurts other people in so doing that they become divisive and, imm, ‘morally wrong.’–the biases, that is.
Put yourself in Boo’s shoes, SG. Otherwise,
PS–Please learn the differences between “they’re,” “there,” and “their.” That’s a personal bias of my own.
