{"id":2480,"date":"2011-12-05T21:21:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T02:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2011-12-05T21:21:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T02:21:01","slug":"polish-joke-gone-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"Polish Joke Gone Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

My ethnic heritage is Polish, very Polish. Three of my grandparents were born and raised there, and the fourth lived there after growing up in White Russia (Belarus). So I don’t exactly enjoy Polish jokes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But I must admit that sometimes my motherland culture deserves their reputation. Especially when the issue involves tolerance for those who are different. I mean, when you are the butt of derogatory jokes, you might try to be a little more sensitive about the evils of looking down on other groups. But Poles are famous for their intolerance, especially with regard to Jews. <\/p>\n

I had hoped that Poland had been purified from anti-Sematism through its experiences with the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s (not to mention Communist Russians in the 50s, 60s and 70s). But quite unfortunately, anti-semitism still rears its ugly head in Poland. At a recent soccer match between the national teams of Poland and Israel, the Polish fans raised up a huge “Jihad” sign across half the stadium. With Arabic-like script, just to rub it in. Hard to believe, but here is an article with a picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turns out that the Polish team was fined by the United Euro Football Association<\/a> based in Switzerland. Only $13,000, just a slap on the wrist. But I’m glad that western Europe took some initiative against this Polish idea of a joke gone bad, very bad.<\/p>\n

The two teams will play again in Israel in December. I don’t even want to think what kind of display the Israeli fans might be cooking up. Some Poles — obviously more than just a few — forget that what goes around, comes around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My ethnic heritage is Polish, very Polish. Three of my grandparents were born and raised there, and the fourth lived there after growing up in White Russia (Belarus). So I don’t exactly enjoy Polish jokes. But I must admit that sometimes my motherland culture deserves their reputation. Especially when the issue involves tolerance for those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}