SHOW YOUR POLISH PRIDE

[epianist]

Chopin on 1850's Erard. Rare! ( live from the Holy Cross Armenian catedral in Paris, February 11,2010; Jozef Kapustka, pianist):
chopinsurlesinstrumentshistoriques.blogspot.com/2010/02/le-piano-de-chopin-par-cyprian-kamil.html

[justjohn]

Thank you very much.

Enjoyed it immensely!!!

[karl]

Mar 16, 2010 3:37:23 GMT -7 epianist said:

Chopin on 1850's Erard. Rare! ( live from the Holy Cross Armenian catedral in Paris, February 11,2010; Jozef Kapustka, pianist):
chopinsurlesinstrumentshistoriques.blogspot.com/2010/02/le-piano-de-chopin-par-cyprian-kamil.html

epianist

Thank you for presenting Chopin, for his music is as enchanting as in the 1st to hear to the present. It would so seem the old masters once gone, to never again be duplicated. For it would so seem, their gift to our world is/was an only 1 time event.

Karl

[PolishMama]

Mar 4, 2010 9:03:29 GMT -7 Jaga said:

Hi Pieter,

I love Dutch culture and Dutch spirit but I hate when people always think that I am from Holland (not Poland), as like they did not know anything about Poland.
You Dutch made them aware of your culture much more than our folks

That is very true, I certainly have come across many people who ask where I am from because of my name and when I say "Poland", they say "Holland"? But then, Jaga, don't feel bad, those same individuals also think Poland is the capital of Sweden once I tell them again and spell Poland to them.
My mother used to tell people she was from either Sweden (to which they would reply "But you aren't blonde and tanned!" or more idiotically "Ahhh, I thought so, your accent sounds Swedish!") or from South Africa (to which they would reply "Really?! I didn't know there were any white people in South Africa!"). Idiocy is just idiocy, I think it doesn't have too much to do with Holland being more of a culture that has been promoted more in the US.
Or perhaps it is, I have met many Poles who won't tell you where they are from, i.e. my mother's smart comments from being tired of being asked where she is from. I WISH I had my polish accent still, I love telling people I am from Poland. I regularly even change my fb profile pic of diff scenes throughout poland and friends ask about it so that I can spread the knowledge of our beautiful Poland.
Polish Pride is very relevant, it is what kept us as a people for 200 years while we didn't even technically have a country anymore, just as Irish Pride kept the Irish alive as a people while they were oppressed.