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I’m from Poland. Why does Europe still make me feel like a second-class citizen? | Olga Mecking
I’m married to a German, bringing up my family in the Netherlands and speak five languages – yet I still don’t ‘belong’, says writer and journalist Olga Mecking
www.theguardian.com
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Her looksmatch is trying to not be noticed and laughed at by the Germanic Chads whose shit he's scrubbing off of the toilets of a Rotterdam nightclub for minimum wage.
I have always thought of myself as the very model of a model European. Both sets of my grandparents were diplomats who lived and worked all over Europe and the world, and spoke several languages. My father grew up in Lyon, where he learned to appreciate good food and wine. Even more, he considered western European culture superior to his native Polish.
"I'm rich like you, I'm not like those other peasants, why are you not accepting meeee reeeee!"When he taught himself to cook, our family dinners included more French and Italian dishes, such as beef bourguignon, lasagne and chicken marengo, than Polish pierogi or kotlet schabowy, although my mum still made traditional food sometimes, particularly at special occasions such as Christmas and Easter. As a child, she spent eight years in The Hague, where she attended an American school. Both of my parents spoke French and English from a young age alongside Polish, and then picked up German when they moved to Cologne for a fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation with a three-year-old me in tow.
Holy shit, you're a true survivor. As a guy who's been constantly made fun of for being unattractive and having no hope of ever being sexual with someone else or looking attractive to someone, I totally see your pain of being reminded that you are an attractive girl.Another common anxiety is that all eastern European women are sex workers. When, years earlier, I had gone to Brighton to learn English, my friends and I visited a record shop whose owner asked where we were from. “Oh, you’re Polish,” he said. “You must be pole dancers, then.” When we didn’t understand, he started making lewd moves. While he meant it as a joke, I understood later that not only had he fetishised us, he had also played on the tired sex worker stereotype. We were only 18.
Kek, I actually forgot about that "report Eastern Europeans" website. Won't lie, as much as I say that this is something that wouldn't be done to ethnics but is tolerated when done to EEs, I actually don't think this would fly if done today. Though, of course, the Dutch have full right to shit on whatever foreigners they want, but realistically, even with how tolerated anti-white racism is, I nevertheless think that that probably wouldn't be doable today.I voted in the recent elections to the European parliament. But the excitement I felt 20 years ago has cooled considerably, especially now that the Netherlands, the country I live in, has a coalition government led by Geert Wilders’s anti-immigration party, which has openly expressed its dislike of not only Muslims but eastern Europeans, too.