O Polakach

[Gość: B2C]

"[The Poles] are a highly individualistic people: every Pole has a different
opinion on everything, and considers it imperative it be known. Inspiration and
panache are held in high esteem; to be correct and dull is considered a horrid
misfortune. They possess enormous vision and energy, but these energies often
spill over in a disorganised, and sometimes even disastrous way. Consequently,
meetings, conferences, etc., often dissolve into chaos. As one visiting World
Health Organisation consultant remarked to me: "The Poles must be restrained,
they have too many ideas." ....I ventured to ask [a government minister] why
Poles did not try to control their feelings.... "What do you mean?" he retorted
angrily, as if the idea had been proffered by a robot. "How can we do that?
They are our feelings." Thus I learned that true Slavs suffer their emotions as
if they were forces of nature, winds and storms and volcanic eruptions. They
cannot imagine tampering with them, for they are the most authentic part of
them." Karin CHOPIN, 1992, 'Letter from Poland: post-totalitarian medicine.'
British Medical Journal 304, 13 vi.