ianek70
25.11.05, 10:13
A Polish Christmas. Bits of straw given away free with the wyborcza. The same
patriotic films they show on telly at every religious festival.
And, of course, articles in every single magazine and newspaper in PL
about "How Do They Celebrate Christmas In Other Countries?"
These are always extremely stupid and full of simplistic stereotypes, since
they are written exclusively for people who have learned to read within the
past 12 months, since everyone else who is even remotely interested read
identical articles last year.
Some of them simply get their info from the Internet - "In Germany they have
trees and special sweets!", but others track down foreigners and ask them
cretinous questions.
It happened to me, it'll happen to you. I made the mistake of telling the
truth, but if another paper comes poking about this festive season I'm going
to lie and I advise everyone else to do the same.
Tell them you ritually slaughter a badger on Christmas Eve, or that you eat
hallucinogenic mushrooms and talk to the baby Jesus, or that Christmas is
banned in your country and that's the main reason you came to Poland.