This short
speech by Cleo Wade (a poet and artist) mentions
a topic of kindness and absolutely encourages to reflection.
Please
watch and write your conclusions.
Questions:
11. Do you have any idea how to make the
world a better place or how to make people around you nicer?
22. Do you think that Poles are good
enough?
Comments
Good emotions grow when you share them with others.
I am not entitled to speak for the whole nation, but living my whole life in Poland, I can say that I've met many wonderful, open and helpful people. But also some that were trying to make things hard for others. I guess it's the same everywhere.
I think you should act as you would like others around you to act. Immanuel Kant called it "the moral imperative" - act by the rules that you think should be applied to the whole community.
22. Do you think that Poles are good enough?
I don't think we have good culture of social behaviour. One sad thing is lack of solidarity and community of Poles in the country and especiialy outside the country. The second aspect is the envy and gossip in relations to neighbours. We also have an inclination for cursing on others without a reason and not accepting any other opinion apart from our own.
I really do not know. Maybe we should go around nicer people. But life is life not a baby story. People continuously make life easer and better. Several hundred years ago were more worse than today.
There is no way you can answer is some group of people good enough. It depends on many things and you can't say group is bad even if there is only one good person. So let's not oversimplify and take into account individuals and not groups.
2. It is hard to say in general, but I think that currently people in Poland lack solidarity which they had 30 years ago. Nowadays many people only care about themselves are don’t pay attention to others. On the other hand we can see dozens of charities and non-profit organizations donated by majority of polish society.
Unfortunately Poles can be very unpleasant and I hope that polish mentality will change in the future.
Well, I don't know, but I'm trying to pass as much "good behaviours" as I can. For example, it's not hard for you to just smile, or ask someone how's it going, but I think that it does very much in terms of being nice to someone.
2. Do you think that Poles are good enough?
It's hard to tell something about Poles. There are still a lot of polish people, who would stab you in the back for their advantage. I hope that it will change one day.
I don't think that we could judge everyone just for being part of some social group. Everyone is different and have lived through a lot of situations that we don't even have an idea about. Many people aren't good enough, but we should try not to judge books by their covers.
Nowadays people are more egoist and empathic.
Even Michael Jackson sang in one of his songs "If you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself and then make a change" that's exactly what we should do.
I think that Poles are good but we don't have a good reputation in a whole world. I know about good, helpful compatriots but there are some bad too... of course it's normal situation which we can find in all of the nationalities. Nevertheless, we should try to change our perception by other countries.
Even stupid "hello my friend, how are you?!" when you enter a local shop make you fell better that's what is missing in Poland.
2. It's difficult to say. I think that in Poland we rather try to be good. We try to strive to be good. Our morality leads us to be good to each other. I know many good polish people. But I met a lot of people who aren't good in situations when I met them. It depend of situation and our difficulties and disadvantages.
I think that it all depends on your behavior. If you want someone to be nice to you, you have to be nice for him/her. When you see someone on your neighborhood, you should say Hi or something and I'm sure, that this person will smile. Overall, people should respect each other. We should celebrate together, not fight with each other.
2. Do you think that Poles are good enough?
Yea, I have many friends from abroad and they say, that we are respectful and helpful people.
As was mentioned above it’s pretty hard to answer whether group of people is good enough or no. Everything depends on variety of things and obstacles, that’s why it’s hard for me to answer this question
i really don't know more than this speaker :) , she said so much that a can't think other solution.
22. Do you think that Poles are good enough?
it depends , i can't really tell if yes because i encounted a lot of negative situation with strangers in poland .
2. It is hard to say but I think that we often think about us worse than we should because we are hospitable and mostly open minded for meeting new people. What is also important is fact that people from Poland are mostly hard-working.
It's too general question in my opinion. I know many people who could be the model example of a kind and helpful people. However, I know even more people who are completely opposite. It's sad, but it looks like this not only in Poland. The unfortunate thing is that to start being nice (in general) you have to experience it on your own that it is profitable in a long-term, but it's hard to start because you won't see the results in a few dates. Usually, it takes years on even more depends on your nature, and opinion others have about you. Being asked for help means that someone has thought that you could help him solve his problems, right? So he has a favourable opinion that you are either skilled enough or would give him your time. It means a lot. Improving the gorgeous level would be hard, especially in Poland because of our history and culture. But I'm optimistic I hope that we will change from selfish, jealous people to open-minded, kind and helpful people in the next ten year.
I cannot group people and judge everyone the same but the interesting fact is many nationalities are known from something. Even if I don't agree with the stereotype of a drunk Pole and so do my friends, the statistics say we drink a lot. It's also interesting that many people share same feelings and opinions about places they have visited all around the world, so it is true to some extent that we share a certain behaviours as a nation, region or a city. After any time spent abroad I find out that Poles are mostly grumpy and critical. I can find many arguments to live in Poland and be a part of this society but the amount of those against would be equal. Just hard to say.