Hello from a native born Silesian. I'm not really into any separatism, nor am I the one to call myself "not Polish", but I like my regional culture, dialect/language, traditions. Pozdrowiom wszyjskich goroli i hanysow, ze Ślonska
@wincentywiewiorczak41147 ай бұрын
Cwaniaczki próbują nas rozegrać wmawiając nam jak bardzo się różnimy. Divide et impera.
@andHAM87 ай бұрын
Ja jestem z Podkarpacia, obydwoje moich rodziców pochodzi z podkarpackich wsi. Teraz już nie tak bardzo, ale kiedyś w latach 70 na wsi mojej babci mówiło się gwarą, która dzisiaj mogłaby niektórym ludziom sprawiać kłopot w pełnym zrozumieniu. Ja też uwielbiam folklor Rzeszowszczyny jej kulturę. Ja cieszę się tym, że w Polsce jest tyle miejsc, że czasem innym Polakom trudno zrozumieć nasz piękny język. Podoba mi się kultura Śląska, czy góralska, historia, tradycje, tańce, śpiew z poszczególnych rejonów Polski. W tym bogactwo Polski, co jest pewnie ewenementem na skalę Europejską. Dziękuję za pańską deklaracje polskości. Widać jest wielu Ślązaków identyfikujących się z Polską, co najlepiej udowodnili powstańcy ślązcy organizując jedne z nielicznych zwycięskich powstań na ziemiach polskich.
@wojstube93597 ай бұрын
Super ciekawy materiał. Pozdrawiam Was i mieszkańców Zabrza z duchowej stolicy Kaszub - Wejherowa. Tutaj jest takie powiedzenie "Nie ma Kaszëb bez Polonii, a bez Kaszëb Polści".
@KultAmerica7 ай бұрын
You should see our last video about Hel - I said that in the video !
@wojstube93597 ай бұрын
@@KultAmerica Of course I watched with my wife, which loves Hel same as me. It was great video. Cheers.
@andHAM87 ай бұрын
"Tyż prowda", jak mawiał Górol Kwiczoł...
@adlervonschlesien48692 ай бұрын
Today, there are fewer native Silesians living in the Silesian country than Poles, who forcibly expelled the Silesians from their own country. Most Silesians and their descendants live in present-day Germany and Austria. In the 19th century, Silesians (not Poles) created a settlement in Texas called Panna Maria!
@voEovove7 ай бұрын
That was a fascinating titbit of history. Man, looking at these places really brings me back. It's amazing how similar everything looks to places where I grew up in Poland. These places might seem bleak, but they fill me with such heartfelt nostalgia.
@quantumhealing3417 ай бұрын
Great stuff! Thanks
@adlervonschlesien48692 ай бұрын
I am also a Silesian first and foremost! The truth is that Silesia is under the occupation of Poland and the Czech Republic. We are a separate nation that has been placed on maps as a separate region for over 1000 years! The Polish state has not existed several times in history, and Silesia still existed and we were able to compose ourselves into several countries while maintaining unity and separateness, and only when Poland came to Silesia did they destroy and suck out of us everything they could without giving anything in return. In the 19th century, Silesia was the richest country/region in Europe, and few people know about it! 12 Nobel Prize winners come from Silesia alone!
@januszostrowski72647 ай бұрын
I love the land of my birth. Thnx from New England your content is great.
@nygelmiller52937 ай бұрын
I don't know if my comment has come up - so I will write it again. Someone wrote that these buildings look a bit like Auschwitz - but the buildings WERE a bit like that, probably BEFORE and AFTER Auschwitz. It's what happened at Auschwitz that was terrible. We have a hospital near where I live , that looks like that. But they do GOOD things to HELP people.
@darkdantepl7 ай бұрын
as a Silesian born and raised just 10 kilometers from Zabrze, I really enjoyed how your mate from Zabrze talks about the region and history. Fest dobrze łosprawioł ! ;)
@nygelmiller52937 ай бұрын
The Silesian man says at the end that he is SILESIAN - just after he said it is possible for more than one nationality to live in one country. He says he is NOT Polish. So he is contradicting himself! I myself am certainly ENGLISH, but I am from one of the 3 countries (England, Wales, and Scotland) on the islan called Great Britain - so we are also called BRITISH.
@ChillDudelD7 ай бұрын
Because he fell for a "lowkey" German psyop.
@wincentywiewiorczak41147 ай бұрын
@@ChillDudelDDivide and impera.
@LEmpireDesSignes4 ай бұрын
I can't see any contradiction there. He has a Silesian identity, his neighbor might feel Polish, and another one declares his nationality as German&Polish. And yes there are many nationalities and ethnic groups in one country. If you look at the Polish history that was a norm up to the WW 2. The same was the case for the "holy Roman Empire", that Silesia was part of.
@koneserbaleronu37813 ай бұрын
@@ChillDudelD what
@sylwiatime7 ай бұрын
People weren't running to America from Upper Silesia only from Galicia which was in the Austria-Hungary partition.
@anj0007 ай бұрын
I will be honest - I live in Silesia my whole life but the Silesian language always sounded really ugly to me. Like if people who do not speak fluent Polish nor German mixed two of them and created this abomination. Silesia is now much safer than it used to be since everyone who was causing troubles: 1. went to jail 2. died from overdose 3. exported themselves to uk, netherlands or germany I remember when I was a kid it was more or less one huge ghetto like the "hoods" in the US. Now I'm watching funny videos on "how to survive in the hood" (you can easily find it on YT) and it is sooo similar to the life in Silisia (or probably any big city in eastern block) in the 90'.
@KultAmerica7 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing that, I believe that making this video 20 years ago would have been much harder. I’ve been in Poland for almost 20 years so I remember when the streets were harder. Just a thought, maybe I’ll come to your town and we make the next video from your perspective?
@anj0007 ай бұрын
@@KultAmerica interesting proposal, but I'm not that well spoken on camera to make a video :D But if by any chance you have any questions I will gladly answer them.
@albertkowalski56297 ай бұрын
W ogóle to Zabrze, jak widać na początku filmu gdy wjeżdżasz do miasta, wygląda na bardzo zaniedbane i zaśmiecone miasto.Tym filmem to Polski nie wypromujesz. Powiem szczerze, że jestem w szoku, że takie miejsca jeszcze istnieją w Polsce. Gdybyś nie powiedział, że to Polska to pomyślałbym, że to jakieś odcięte od świata miasto na Syberii. Dlaczego tak się dzieje? Inna mentalność ludzi? Mieszkam w województwie małopolskim, tutaj miasta może nie są idealne ale na pewno są w lepszym stanie, tu ciągle coś jest inwestowane, remontowane. Dlaczego na Śląsku się nie da?
@roberturbanczyk2047 ай бұрын
Też się zastanawiam co z nimi nie tak. GOP jest większy niż Warszawa z obwarzankiem a wygląda to gorzej niż Targówek. Hanysi z którymi miałem do czynienia to zakompleksieni ludzie o wąskich horyzontach myślowych, nie zdolni do przyjęcia faktu że nie będą wiecznie fedrować bo węgiel jest coraz głębiej. Oczywiście to Warszawiacy są winni tego że nie chce im się nawet umyć elewacji i naprawić dachu
@nostii6 ай бұрын
Zabrze jest zadłużone na ponad 700 milionów jeśli się nie mylę, ciężko tutaj o renowacje starych bloków czy kamienic. Powiedziałbym że aktualnie Zabrze to w 30% takie stare rozwalone kamienice, powstają nowe osiedla itp. ale żeby coś wyremontować to ani rusz
@gennarosavastano94246 ай бұрын
Tak wygląda kiedyś bogate piękne miasto po prawie stu latach polskiego zarządzania
@albertkowalski56296 ай бұрын
@@gennarosavastano9424 to bogate miasto kiedyś żyło i bogaciło się z wydobycia węgla ale dzięki UE i ich ekoterroryzmowi dużo miast na Śląsku upadło. Kolejna sprawa, w Polsce jest za mało ludzi by utrzymać rozwój miast. Kraj wielkości Polski powinien mieć 70-80 milionów ludzi a nie 38.
@roberturbanczyk2046 ай бұрын
@@gennarosavastano9424 o jakim polskim zarządzaniu mówisz skoro reszta Polaków też była pod ruskim butem
@jacek33846 ай бұрын
12:10 Na jakiej podstawie ten pan mówi, że większość Polaków tak myśli o Ślązakach? Jakieś badania?
@Sargath6663 ай бұрын
pan po prostu powiela antypolską propagande RASiu, że "przyszli Poloki i wszystko zniszczyły". Nie było II wojny światowej , niemieckiej agresji po prostu przyszli Polacy i zniszczyli Śląsk, bo tak sobie wymyślili. Ciężko tych bzdur słuchać.
@kasiakarewicz12107 ай бұрын
I was born in Częstochowa, nowadays Upper Silesian Voivodeship, I lived in Gliwice 21 years. As an outsider, I hope that all Polish regional cultures and dialects will survive. There are currently five dialects in Poland: Greater Polish, Lesser Polish, Masovian, Silesian and Kashubian. We also distinguish dialects that are a mixture of dialects transferred from the Borderlands and from other parts of the country to the recovered lands. Yes we like to make jokes from each other, regional mentality, culture, language, and is not only Polish way, but is the same in all around the world. But a joke is a joke, it doesn't mean that we disrespect each other. You are Silesian but also Polish, just like Kashubian and Highlaners are Polish. Same as Castilians, Catalans, Galicians and Basques are also Spanish. So please do not BS people, that Silesian are not Polish, check your ID, Passport if you have doubts. Some Silesian have also German nationality.
@PanMrPiTeR7 ай бұрын
Czestochowa to nie Slask
@kasiakarewicz12107 ай бұрын
@@PanMrPiTeR sprawdź jeszcze raz mapę Polski... a Gliwice należą do GOPu.
@mateuszt6617 ай бұрын
@@kasiakarewicz1210 ale Częstochowa nie leży na Śląsku. W województwie śląskim jak najbardziej, ale to nie jest to samo co Śląsk.
@jarekjaroslaw33075 ай бұрын
"UE nie pozwala na posiadanie podwójnego obywatelstwa, musieli więc wybierać, które zachować, a które stracić?". Pierwsze słyszę, bo znam masę osób mających niemieckie i polskie obywatelstwo. Katalończycy czy Baskowie to Hiszpanie? A ja może jestem Eskimosem w takim razie? Dziewczyno mylisz pojęcia. To, że mieszkają na terenie Hiszpanii, w skład której wchodzą ich kraje to nie znaczy, że są Hiszpanami. Na terenie Rosji tez mieszka masę narodowości. Czy oni są Rosjanami, tylko dlatego, ze muszę mieć paszport rosyjski albo dowód? TO czy ktoś jest Polakiem czy nie zależne jest od tego kim się deklaruje,a nie od tego jaki ma dokument, bo to sprawa urodzenia się w tym miejscu i nabycia obywatelstwa i na to nie ma się zazwyczaj wpływu.
@gromosawsmiay30003 ай бұрын
@@mateuszt661 taki smaczek oświecim jest na śląsku (popatrz na herb oświęcimia) a obecnie małopolskie
@citychris32154 ай бұрын
Great video. Who was your tour guide in this video? Does he have any online platforms? I'd love to learn more about Silesian history from him.
@lukassbeataddicts7 ай бұрын
Moje kochane Ślązaki nie czują się Polakami a gęby i zachowania mają takie Polskie.
@andHAM87 ай бұрын
Ten z filmu mieszka pewnie od wielu lat w Reich.
@dariuszskorowski66507 ай бұрын
Podobna sytuacja jak u nas na Kaszubach. Pòzdrówczi
@andHAM87 ай бұрын
No proszę, każy Polak Was zrozumie panicki ze Śląska i Kaszub. Nie jesteście Germanami tylko Słowianami.
@TheGrace0207 ай бұрын
Super interesting!
@carnitagroves77585 ай бұрын
Greetings from Ghana West Africa... very interesting content! Thanks for the education. 😊
@rookki7 ай бұрын
Widze że od czasu zwycięstwa uśmiechniętej polski wszystkie siły lewackie ostro grają na śląski separatyzm. Takie przewidywalne, takie niemieckie.
@Anna-un4hz7 ай бұрын
Jeszcze wiele tam do zrobienia! W sensie infrastruktury!
@schepvogelk59717 ай бұрын
Extremely intresting
@wincentywiewiorczak41147 ай бұрын
0:22 Nie wiem jak Niemcy, ale ja mam tylko pozytywne skojarzenia ze Ślązakami.
@user-vd5si1rs3d7 ай бұрын
I feel like I am not Polish as a local. Neither me nor people around me speaks Polish. Since I am from Turkey.
@wozniakowski12177 ай бұрын
wisely spoken
@nygelmiller52937 ай бұрын
To user5ds What is the matter with people - if you live in somebody's country, you should have the respect to learn their language! Other people DO!
@user-vd5si1rs3d7 ай бұрын
@@nygelmiller5293 the joke just flew over your head...
@Dsbarrynl7 ай бұрын
@@user-vd5si1rs3d i have been to poland, and to turkish food stores and they speak fluently polish, i was amazed!
@andHAM87 ай бұрын
@nygelmiller5293 No, he lives in Turkey, and there are no Poles there besides people in Polonezkoy and Polish tourists.
@paullubinski18662 ай бұрын
In one of your early videos you just up and moved to Poland. I was wondering how you stayed in the country for longer than 3 months when you were not a citizen (duel or otherwise) and where not there working for a company on any type of work visa. Did you end up getting citizenship through ancestry, taking the test, or via your wife? My Polish is only A1 level and my family left pre WWI ale Polska to piękny kraj. Kocham odwiedzać Thanks!
@mikezabo31347 ай бұрын
Nie okradli samochodu bo deszcz padal i oni nie pracuja w deszcz.
@wincentywiewiorczak41147 ай бұрын
Czy ten człowiek celowo próbuje wbić klina między Polaków?
@Sargath6663 ай бұрын
jak każdy ze ślązakowców jedzie kalką z Himmlera.
@Boy_Al1en7 ай бұрын
Familioki?
@lolopele22836 ай бұрын
Napiszę po polsku. Czy Wam się to podoba czy nie, jesteśmy Ślązakami. Tu nie chodzi o język, gwarę - to jest tylko wycinek całego problemu. Polacy są dumni ze swojej flagi hymnu, godła. To teraz wyobraźcie sobie, że to wszystko ktoś Wam próbuje odebrać i mówi Wam, że wymyślacie sobie jakąś polskość... Wielu z nas (nie wszyscy) chciałoby dumnie mówić o tym kim jesteśmy, tak jak Wy mówicie o sobie dumnie że jesteście Polakami. Lotołch po placu za bajtla, łosprawioł ze karlusami i frelka i po naszymu i nikt mje tego niy zabiere. Ślonsku pszaja Tobie ❤️
@lolopele22836 ай бұрын
Frelkami
@nataliamach72485 ай бұрын
No coz, moze ta wasza mowe zrozumiec tylko Polak, ale wy sie swoim bratem brzydzicie. I nikt wam niczego zabrac nie chce, to wy chcecie zabrac nam jednosc i w tym wasza wina.
@radekdudek70633 ай бұрын
Guy says, he is not Polish yet he expects that Poles will pay to keep his culture.
@koneserbaleronu37813 ай бұрын
silesia was a main reason poles had any money until 2010s, they deserve to get it
@radekdudek70633 ай бұрын
@@koneserbaleronu3781 I dont know where did you get that info but it is completely false.
@koneserbaleronu37813 ай бұрын
@@radekdudek7063 silesia still gives 20% of polish economy, excluding lesser silesia, and during 1980-90s it gave much more
@radekdudek70633 ай бұрын
@@koneserbaleronu3781 20% is a big chunk of Polish economy, yet it proofs that 80% of wealth comes from other sources.
@koneserbaleronu37813 ай бұрын
@@radekdudek7063 i mean silesia is still small, and has only around 10% of population, so yea its much
@JoKo2037 ай бұрын
Are the Silesians more similar to the Sorbian people in Germany?
@marcelaaqi6 ай бұрын
Exactly
@andHAM87 ай бұрын
The Silesian language does not exist. There are over 100 Silesian dialects and all of them are inextricably linked with the Polish language. The oldest sentence in Polish that has been preserved was written in Silesia in 1270: "day ut ia pobrusa, a ti poziwai" Silesian dialects are the language of the oldest Polish poets Kochanowski and Rej. This man who explains the history of Silesia only misleads the American host of the channel. His reluctance to be Polish and his identification with another culture is noticeable. He must reach back to the prehistory of Polish literature. He is still surprised that Poles and Silesians destroyed inscriptions in German on tombstones. This is for years of murders, denationalization, and deportation of Poles to slave labor in Germany from Polish territories occupied by the German Reich. This is not adequate retribution.
@andHAM87 ай бұрын
Dla znających polski polecam wystąpienie w Sejmie posła Konfederacji - Romana Fritza, Ślązaka z dziada pradziada, który podaje szczegóły dlaczego język śląski nie istnieje. Komuś zależy, aby wbić klin pomiędzy Polakami i Ślązakami. Można się domyślać komu na tym zależy. Węgla na Śląsku pod ziemią jeszcze jest w bród. Niemcy kazali zasypać kopalnie, żeby kiedyś wpadło to ich łapy i takie akcje temu służą. Zaczyna się niewinnie.
@wincentywiewiorczak41147 ай бұрын
@@andHAM8 Niestety, udowodnili, że nie można im ufać.
@adlervonschlesien48692 ай бұрын
The Silesian language exists and every Silesian understands each other perfectly, sometimes using different words for a given thing, but you Pole how can you know that, you Poles don't know shit about Silesia and Silesians. Our history is different than yours! We read different books in a different language, we have 12 Nobel Prize winners, and we are connected with Poland by barely 200 years of history!
@adlervonschlesien48692 ай бұрын
Okay, if this sentence is written in Polish, then tell me what it means, and show me the same words in Polish! How perfectly I know what this sentence means, because in Silesian these words are alive.
@wincentywiewiorczak41147 ай бұрын
Divide et impera.
@jonpender7 ай бұрын
Very interesting video. My grandmother lived in Ruda Slaska and I visited her in 1973. I have been to Silesia several times. I wish that you had the Silesian guy (you did not introduce him) speak Polish because his English is a bit crunchy and some of his remarks are lost in translation. BTW the English word for evangelical is Lutheran. He incorrectly stated that Silesia was part of Germany before the war. This is correct only if he was referring to WWI.
@nygelmiller52937 ай бұрын
To jon pender, I don't agree with 2 of the things you mentioned. I don't think his English is bad - I think it is very fluent. And everybod still makes a mistake now and if they weren't born in a country whose language they are speaking! Look at ABBA. And perhaps you are historically correct that evangelical USED to mean Lutheran. But today people say Evangelical means spreading the faith for many types of differant churches, as well!
@jonpender7 ай бұрын
@@nygelmiller5293 You are wrong on both counts. The Germans living in Zabrze were Lutherans, not evangelicals in the sense of the word that is widely used in America today. Here is what the dictionary says about evangelisch: "evangelisch RELIGION der von Martin Luther reformierten christlichen Religion angehörend Protestant" In case you don't read German, evangelisch means belonging to the Christian church reformed by Martin Luther. This is an example of one of the commentator's numerous errors. The Silesian commentator is well-informed but his English leaves a great deal to be desired. I don't have time to go through his numerous mistakes with you. Americans believe that they have freedom of speech but the Bill of Rights does not make ignorant people correct.
@nygelmiller52936 ай бұрын
@jonpender Thank you for replying anyway. It's interesting to exchange views. But I DO understand German. My mother's family are from Swiss- German speaking Switzerland, and because it is a dialect, I learnt HOCH DEUTSCH German at evening class. Are YOU of German heritage?
@marcelaaqi6 ай бұрын
Part of nowadays Upper Silesia was in fact German after WWI. I live in (at that time) Polish village that was neighbouring (at that time) German village. Where I live even though it's far away from German border, a lot of people had 2 citizenships (Polish + German). Because, their male ancestor (citizenship could only be passed this way at that time) was born in Germany, which was in fact just a neighbour village and not all of those people even indentified as Germans. They also mostly spoke Silesian. So you are in fact wrong.
@aleksanderkochelak35867 ай бұрын
Jest gwara śląska. Sam profesor Jan Miodek to potwierdzał.
@G0TIMAN7 ай бұрын
Ale Miodek nie jest wyrocznią.
@miszlen007 ай бұрын
@@G0TIMAN tym bardziej losowi ślązacy, którym się wydaje że ich godka jest odrębną formą jezykową, gdy w istocie jest językiem polskim, który 200 lat temu zapożyczył zwroty z niemieckiego, zamiast brać lepsze wzorce językowe z Francji i Anglii, jak zrobił to literacki j. polski
@136dami7 ай бұрын
A prof. Bralczyk twierdzi, że Miodek nie ma racji. I co teraz?
@peblatki42726 ай бұрын
12:10 - gościu w tym momencie bredzi jak pogęty
@wally4017 ай бұрын
Very interesting.
@sebastiandrylla7 ай бұрын
This region (of today Poland) was long time ago an austrian and german region untill 1945. That is whay they are different to us, or maybe we (the "other Polaks" are different to "them"😅😅😅)
@gromosawsmiay30003 ай бұрын
austrian...are you sure.... I think it was czech , look at the Czech coat of arms ;-)
@bolec33637 ай бұрын
Ale depresyjna okolica
@ilonaduda6 ай бұрын
to tylko wina deszczu
@nataliamach72485 ай бұрын
@@ilonaduda chyba miedzy innymi
@flameguy34167 ай бұрын
Those apartments look like the auschwitz buildings.
@nygelmiller52937 ай бұрын
To FLAMEGUY. Old buildings did sometimes look unpleasant anyway. HERE near London, we have an old hospital that is a bit like Auschwitz - but of course it does things to cure people, not to harm them.
@miszlen007 ай бұрын
man, these are just brick buildings - old brick will look like old brick no matter where it lays
@gennarosavastano94246 ай бұрын
No, we are not, regardless of what occupier tries to claim
@DawidMaul78-by8yh7 ай бұрын
This place look like third world country.
@betelgezaa7 ай бұрын
Typowe. Jak Polak gada po ang to problem z czasami. Niesamowite ze prawie żaden Polak nie może zrozumieć czasów ang.
@andHAM87 ай бұрын
Da się rozumieć...
@ilonaduda6 ай бұрын
Bo my mamy trzy czasy- przeszły , teraźniejszy i przyszły. Koniec.
@betelgezaa6 ай бұрын
@@ilonaduda a Anglicy maja czas perfect - używany przy kojarzeniu faktów. Aby kojarzyć należy być inteligentnym. I tu się zaczynaja schody. Większość prostaków umie tyllo czas prostacki czyli simple.
@ilonaduda6 ай бұрын
@@betelgezaa każ Anglikowi mówić po polsku- załamie się ! Też nazwiesz go prostakiem?