Poznan Radio

[imomus]

Hisae had to renew her visa, so we jumped aboard the Berlin-Warszawa Express and went to Poznan. It was my first trip to Poland. Here, in the form of a radio programme, are my first impressions. As a Polish pope dies Hisae and I watch Wong Kar Wai's 2046 in Cantonese with Polish subtitles, look at paintings, sit in cafes, admire the architecture, read design books, lie in the sun on the central square... and try to figure out why the local skinheads are wearing White Power Poland t-shirts when we can't see a single non-white person in town.

Poznan Radio (mono mp3 file, 39 mins 17 secs, 17.9MB)

Comments

Poznan

[porandojin.livejournal.com]

Momus, i would like to know, how does Polish language sound to you? I know foreigners say it's like a snake language, not very nice as a sound, but what was your impression?

and with this white power thing and iraq- i think you may be wrong ... Poland during communism had very good relations with Iraq /and Libya, Syria/- there was many engineers , doctors there, many of my friends does still speak Arab language they remember from their exotic childhood ... Poland and Polish public opinion was supporting Bush and America mainly because through media they are witnessing increasingly better realations betwen supereuro countries /France and Germany/ and Putin Russia, and they just fear that.

Re: Poznan

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Really? Poland has always come off really badly from being the buffer state between Europe and Russia, so I would imagine they had everything to gain from good relations between the main European states and Russia. I personally hope Russia joins the EU eventually.

But why are there all these white power guys in a country with so few immigrants?

Re: Poznan

[porandojin.livejournal.com]

hmmm... first, they are not really against colored people- there happen violent acts directed towards Arabs or Africans but really rarely /as there are only few such people/, and there is a huge Viet community which I never heard experienced discrimination or smth like that ... We are homogenous society of 99% white catholic people and this makes this issue smth special- those guys and Polish shovinism, racism is really against 'an other' within us- 'a jew' some kind of collective jungian shadow construct which is hidding and dangerous ...

Re: Poznan

[porandojin.livejournal.com]

and of course not all of the short hair guys are skinheads ... most of them are just typical poor families children, and they like such fshion ...

Re: Poznan

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Look at this guy, though: his T shirt reads WHITE POWER POLAND! I think it's more than fashion for him...

Re: Poznan

[porandojin.livejournal.com]

sure, he's a skinhead no doubts

Re: Poznan

[imomus.livejournal.com]

i would like to know, how does Polish language sound to you?

It sounds like a car crash happening in my mouth. A crash involving a glamourous 1960s sports coupe and a tractor.