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Sep 7, 2023, 11:41 AM

Accentism, nativism, big business, and shibboleths

Sapir–Whorf hypothesis states that the structure of a language determines a native speaker's perception and categorization of experience. In other words, the languge you speak defines how you see yourself and the world. The two influence each other, of...

Sep 6, 2023, 6:51 AM

My Chinese Adventures.

Did you know there were Polish Jews in Shanghai during the Second World War? I’ve come across the Shanghai Ghetto story when I worked in China in 2017. Let me share a few snippets of my Chinese adventures with...

Sep 4, 2023, 3:11 AM

Places around Warsaw with rich Jewish history.

Poland is an intriguing place. We have these cultural customs you won’t really find anywhere else. Take hand-kissing as an example. What a doozy! A Polish woman smiles through gritted teeth and rolls her eyes as a gentleman walks...

Sep 3, 2023, 12:24 AM

My thoughts on God, life and reality

Dybbuk. What an intriguing, yet unnerving, concept. Two questions arise: does God allow souls of the dead to take control of the living? Does a dybbuk possessing a living person not violate the living person’s free will? If God lets the...

Aug 31, 2023, 1:31 PM

Darya Dugina and Z-Cultists

I was talking to a Ukrainian woman living in Israel who told me she’s sometimes mistaken for a Russian. At other times, she comes across people who tell her Ukraine is like Russia. She's mad and sad about this....

Aug 30, 2023, 5:06 AM

Does our opinion really matter?

I was reading a collection of short stories by Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, which were inspired by the author’s Auschwitz concentration camp experience. I wonder if we really can stop genocide in the so-called...

Aug 28, 2023, 11:42 PM

Is Poland turning into a regime?

Concern grows around the world that Poland is turning into a regime. Is this concern justified? I was at the Wailing Wall when I was ten. Israel has an important place in the Polish psyche. It’s safe to say Polish-Jewish relations...

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About Me

Adam Borowski is a technical Polish-English translator with a background in international relations and a keen interest in understanding how regime propaganda brainwashes people so effectively. He's working on a novel the plot of which is set across multiple realities. In the novel, he explores the themes of God, identity, regimes, parallel universes, genocide and brainwashing. His Kyiv Post articles covering a wide range of issues can be found at https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/27

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