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British Xmas card mocks Polish pope 06.12.2007 Poles in the UK protest against a Christmas card which features John Paul II and George W. Bush. The deceased John Paul II is lying on a catafalque. George Bush is standing over him. The speech bubble next to his face says: "What happened to Santa?". This Christmas card is selling like hot cakes in Britain, causing outrage amongst the Polish community. Poles have already informed they would organise street protests. "It's appalling. Using the image of the deceased Holy Father is a scandal. Muslims protested at the cartoons deriding Muhammad. Why should...

A dentist has admitted she was "off target" when she punctured a patient's nose with a needle. Polish woman Joanna Chyzy, 34, who now lives in Collin, near Dumfries, was giving evidence to a misconduct hearing relating to her work in Somerset. She admitted perforating the woman's nose but denied failure to obtain consent and failing to stop when the patient showed signs of distress. The hearing before the General Dental Council continues. Ms Chyzy told the hearing about treating the patient in April 2005. "I pulled up her lip, I accept I was off target with the tip of...

A city worker was under fire last night for penning an essay that uses ethnic slurs to describe Polish-Americans and calls their Brooklyn enclave in Greenpoint "even uglier than the morons who work there." David Langlieb, a 23-year-old Parks Department project manager, defended his work as "satire." "I live in Greenpoint, I'm half Polish, I have nothing but love and fondness for the Polish community," he said. "If you take what's there out of context, of course it's incredibly offensive." But Frank Milewski of the Polish-American Congress, who read Langlieb's entire essay, called it an "an out-and-out insult" and was...

German stereotypes of Poles 29.06.2006 They are car thieving, backward and unemployed who can’t play football, apparently. Report by Slawek Szefs Although their image has been changing for the better, Poles are still negatively perceived by most Germans and are not fully accepted in the country of their Western neighbors. Those are the conclusions of a six-year study published in a report by the Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw. In the eyes of an average German, Poles are mostly associated with car theft, cultural backwardness and unemployment. What's worse, they can't even play football! The latter opinion is fully...

'Polish Joke' plays up stereotypes at SLAC By Brandon Griggs The Salt Lake Tribune Some of the most widespread and tasteless American jokes have long made fun of ethnic groups, and perhaps no minority has suffered more than the Poles. For reasons that remain unclear, people from Poland have been the brunt of countless jokes that play off cruel stereotypes of "Polacks" as stupid blunderers. How do you sink a Polish battleship? Put it in water. Ha, ha. Now comes "Polish Joke," a comedy by David Ives that opens in previews Tuesday at the Salt Lake Acting Company. By focusing...