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How to tell the Polish people in my life that I don't really care for the language and culture?

Well I am 1st generation Aussie (Australian) and the rest of my family are polish. every polish person we know always get upset and me and my mother that she never tought me polish and at me for not wanting to learn. I acknowllege where my roots are frm, even i have a tattoo of the polish eagel on my chest. I respt it but i dont really like it as all the times i have heard polish my family were fighting also all the polish people i have met nice but snobby and well they would talk in polish knowing well that i dont infornt of me. How can i tell these people that i dont wanna learn polish and im not interented. I am Aussie and I speak english, and Korean xD

I am a very direct person and say it usually how it is but i dont wanna make them mad as polish people remember shiz for a long long long time and they hold grudges like gum to the carpet, they never let go. HELP

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Answer #1

Now I am like 70% polish, and I don’t know the language and I hate the food, I won’t eat it. & everyone in my family could care less about that. plus your younger and younger teens don’t care about language or culture stuff, we just wanna have fun and enjoy our lives. I would just keep telling it how it is & don’t feel bad they should understand, if they don’t oh well. There are bigger things to worry about, don’t let this bug you.

Answer #2

ture but i dont know young kids or ppl my age all my “friends” are in their 30’s - 40’s and also gannies and pappies xD i only know 1 kid who is 3 yrs younger than me and he even said why dont u speak polish and that i should speak polish. > <

Answer #3

Just tell them that you respect it but your trying to find yourself&interests right now..trying to live free.they can’t make you like something.

Answer #4

i do repect and do do things with my famlity like polish church on easter and xmas and stuff like that im just sick on the redicule and indirect insults and bitching thats going on….as i siad i have the polish eagel tattoo on my chest near my heart and shows i repect and care about my roots but im also aussie and care more about where i was born and its culture and now my husbands culture than polish culture ><

Answer #5

I mostly Polish, and just as Brooke said, no one seems to care that I don’t know Polish. Only thing is, I really want to learn it, but my family is not willing to teach me V.V Just tell the like it is. If they want to hold a grudge on you maybe you should bring out the pole in you and hold a grudge back!! Okay, not really, but they’re you’re family and if they don’t understand that you don’t want a learn then they are the ones with a problem, not you.

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