Thanks for the explanation. My father Nathan Werner, was the only plumber in Kosow and he escaped to Czernovitz where he met my mother. Never knew it was a derogatory term.
Thanks,
Gary Werner
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 5, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Jorge Gubitsch <dyurigub_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gary: excuse me for not explaining. In Europe , when frontiers opened,
> some people where afraid from people coming from poor countries, they
> thought they would ask for a lower price than "first world"
> professionals and in France the image of the Polish plumber became a
> symbol and then a joke, very few of them came and nobody lost their
> job. The old fear from the foreigner.
>
> Dyuri
>
> 2015-07-05 17:22 UTC+02:00, Gary Werner <gwerner_at_roadrunner.com>:
>> Jorge
>> What do you mean when you say "polish plumber?"
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gary Werner
>> Sent from my iPhone
>
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