2023年3月15日 · It's what most germanic European languages call the people of Poland, including mine. It's even "polak" in Polish itself, Polak, iirc.

2007年7月23日 · Polak in polish means Pole so its no offensife although it is seen as offensive when used in foreign language in place of "Pole" as Polak or Polack. Polak is not offensive only in polish language. Thank you Ola for the contribution i find all this very helpful and i will have to withdraw some of my harsh comments about you in previous posts, so ...

There are at least a few scholarly articles that deal with this issue, mostly researched by folklorists. The origins of the American "dumb Polack" are based on an earlier German stereotype, which was then imported into the United States in the …

2021年4月11日 · In many languages, like mine, but also Polish itself the Polish people are known as Polacks. Even in the UK it's mostly ok to say, alongside "Poles"…

2021年10月30日 · The word Polack is not well known that much anymore unless if you’re ethnically Polish or at least that’s the case where I live (Chicago). It seems odd that the Anglicisation of a Polish word (Polak, the male version for …

Polack In the contemporary English language, the nouns Polack ( and ) or Polak are ethnic slurs, and derogatory references to a person of Polish descent. It is an Anglicisation of the Polish masculine noun Polak, which denotes a Polish male or a person of Polish ethnicity and unspecified gender.

2022年12月3日 · An American, a German and a pole are interviewing for a job. The American goes first. Does well and the interviewer asks him to make an observatio

2024年6月16日 · Yes, Polack is the slur. Pole is perfectly fine. Although in Polish itself, the denonym for a Polish person is "Polak", so it gets a bit tricky. Basically if you're speaking in English, you should say Pole, but a Polish person saying they are a Polak (in Polish) is fine. Language is funny.

I remember a bunch of Polack jokes from as early as 4th-5th grade (1980-81). I never knew why the Polish were looked down upon, but in my pre-pubescent ignorance used to laugh anyway. The jokes persisted through high school, until I was in 9th-10th grade, when we had a newly-transplanted polish girl in my Algebra class.

2021年4月18日 · What was the "Polack" joke? Mafia 2 In the beginning of the second game, when Mike Bruski forgets there's gas in that car's tank and Vito blows it up, Joe says: "There's a Polack joke there but I'll leave it alone" to which Mike responds with "Oh yeah, that reminds me...