What happens when you translate Polish sayings into English? Apparently, a nation full of people discussing sugar in the rain, warning children about wolves and witches, threatening impossible punishments and expressing entire emotions with a single swear word. A humorous look at the expressions, sarcasm and cultural quirks that make perfect sense in Poland and sound completely alarming everywhere else
he more time I spent around children, the more I found myself wondering why adults were so often surprised by things that seemed entirely normal to me. The question was never whether children were capable. The question was when we stopped expecting them to be.
While judging other people’s lives, I discovered I was making the same assumptions others had made about me. A reflection on judgment, perspective, and hidden circumstances
Somewhere between a stomach ache, Gurgaon traffic, and a perfectly ordinary conversation, I discovered how quickly human beings turn observations into personality traits and how rarely they stop to ask what those observations might mean in another culture.
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