• NO all-you-can-eat buffets (Getting fat!!! Hello!!)
• Quality of bread
• Daily exercise consists of more than just pressing your foot on a gas pedal
• Architecture has much more personality
• Public transportation is not used just by homeless people and ex-cons
• Fruit and vegetables taste REAL (not like the weird, tasteless, waxy-looking stuff that is available in the conventional US grocery stores)
• Not everyone is suing everyone for everything
• Burty ( type of kielbasa)
• Universal public acceptance of beauty of Svickova and Vepro, Knedlo, Zelo
• Visiting another country doesn’t actually take 10 hours of flying
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Homes are built to last 5 lifetimes not like here in the US where as if you are lucky if they last 5 years.
That’s a good point; but you can find some “good stuff” on the East Coast where a lot of homes are build from real bricks.
Yes, I agree with your post, But all in all The Czech Republic and Slovakia are a much better place to live and to bring up a family than compaired to here in the US. The quality of life and family values over the past 20 -25 years here in the US have made a steep decline and i see it not getting any better in the near future. I was born and raised here in the US with family living in Slovakia and we chatt about this topic often. My Cousin was here living here in the US for 6 months and she could not wait to get back home because she could not beleave how we can survive.
Hi and thanks for the comment; I don’t know what part of Slovakia your family/cousin comes from but I come from Prague and family values there are – from my experience – almost nonexistent; not to mention that the Czech Republic has the highest divorce rate in Europe ! ( see http://www.radio.cz/en/article/78959) When I was growing up many of my friend’s fathers were abusive alcoholics that were beating their wives and children. Parents had no clue on how to raise their children or even what raising children entailed. Now that I am away from all the craziness and can actually compare that experience to my current living I know what is normal and healthy. I know that to have good communication skills between husband and wife is important; I know that screaming at my husband/kids is not healthy; and I know that family is the most important thing one has so I make sure to invest a lot of time in it.
There are many things that I love about Czechs and the Czech Republic, that’s why I created this web site, but family values are not the first thing that come to my mind.
Family values are not dependent on a country you live in but people themselves. I see good family values here but also there. I love the way American fathers are involved with their kids, and that they tend to be more faithful to their wives. And I think gossip and jelousy is less common in the US than in Prague. I can’t stand the way people are always afraid of each and live by ” what would people say” in the Czech. It is more free here and I don’t worry about what people will say because they say nothing.
I totally agree regarding the father/child relationship and how devoted they are in their role as parents (same experience here). But I also think that there is something about the Czech Republic and its disapearing family values (Czech has no.1 divorce rate in Europe!!!). And I hear the same thing from my girlfriends back in Czech: lot of husbands in the Czech Republic are cheating on their wives! Not mentioning the fact that lot of them are very disrespectful to them as well….but of course, there are good guys as well (mostly exceptions though).
On the other hand,people in the usa are not worried at all, what will the others say.There are 60year old women with piercing of the belly button and exposed body parts!As for the family values,I think czechs are doing a little better. American women are mostly single unwed mothers,who dump their children in the day care. And breastfeeding?Forget about it! Too much work. I simply think americans lost totally the touch with the basic family values.
Czech/Slovak women are hotter since they are slim adn tight. U.S. women are mostly fat obese cows. Czech Republic divorce rate is high but the U.S. is the highest in the world.
Many but not all Czech men are to blame for the high divorce rate because they are drunk useless abusive men. While not as bad as Russian, they are pretty bad. Also the Czechs being Atheistic/Agnostic contributes.
Overall Czech Republic has more culture then the U.S.
However Slovakia is best since they are religious and do in fact believe in god yet the women are hot at the same time. That can never be done in the U.S.
10 things better in Czech than in U.S. and you didn’t mention …… BEER? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Uuuppsss…I am sorry! Well I can’t correct it now because that would be “11 things I like best…” unless I give one thing up….let me think about it…
Oh no Tanja, your list is your list. But it seems to be one thing that distinguishes CR from all other countries. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_consumption_by_country
The second place country isn’t even close. Of course there are two sides to the coin. Some Czechs might be drinking a bit too much beer. But as far as, “whose beer is the best?” No contest. Cesky pivo!
I guess I have the best of both worlds! Being a Czech descendant is great! My gggrand father came to USA in 1880 and the family has grown a lot!
We have had annual family reunions since 1956.
Family is very important and everyone is very close…even distant cousins.
Food is also important as are Czech traditions and keeping alive the Czech language.
Pivo also plays an important part.
Does anyone know what the surname Macek means?
Hi Macek,
Macek means – don’t take it the wrong way – “Mr. chubby”:) I call my 1-year old daughter “macek” since she is a very chubby (and therefore very cute) baby. Lot of cats in Czech are named “Macek” or “Macik” – it’s just an endearing name!
Does anyone know what the surname Picman means?
I am currently dating a man from Czek, living here in U.S. for 7 years. thanks
Love the advice. Thank you.
LOL, true about the beer! Disagree about the bread, it’s not particularly tasty here, although for bread I mean only _white_ bread! 😉
I think the whole single mom dumping their kids off at day care can be applied to Czech women. I know some Czech ladies who had children with married men or just used a sperm donor per se and had children. They are raising their children on their own because they were getting to be thirty something divorced and no prince charming on the horizon. Or they get pregnant here in the US and get married, have baby and then divorced the guy. Then there was the scam by various women from Slavic countries: they married Navy sailors and lived with their boyfriends while getting all the benefits.
I completely agree with you about the bread! I miss being able to get decent fresh loaves of bread at every grocery store. It was so accessible there. Here, I have to go to specialty bakeries or expensive grocery stores to get good bread (or make it myself, of course).
What is better in CR than in USA:
1) quality of culture
2) quality of public transportation
3) quality of bread
4) quality of beer
5) quality of liquor
6) quality of pubs
7) quality of sexual life (I mean, people are more open-minded in CR)
8) quality of meat
9) quality of milk
10) that’s all folks !!
Did I mention quality of people? If not, then it is meant to be so :))))
But US is catching up. Food is increasingly better every year (but you have to buy at farmers market or directly from farm) and social life is getting also better over here and people are getting more open-minded and more bitchy about politics ….. I like how the evolution is working for USA :)))
People in US already realized that pharmaceutical and food industry is a conspiracy to make people sick and stupid. I love the huge selection of natural medicine in US… (believe or not , some doctors who were promoting natural medicine, lost their doctor licences …)
I am lucky enough that whatever I mentioned in the list, I have even here in US. So mething I already have at home 😉 and the other things if you are trying hard, you can find here as well. Well you have to pay extra….
a rohliky? Or does that fall under quality of bread?
Love this, thanks. I have been trying to recreate rohliky (with you recipe) and bread at home. It ha been somewhat successful.
Jeste jsem zapomel, Cesi (mozna i Slovaci 😉 ) umeji cist mezi radky . Tady treba reknu vtip a abych nikoho neurazil, tak musim pridat “Just kidding! Ha Ha Ha HA ” 😀
The people in CR are for the most part tougher. Like Vlastimil said, they can take a joke and you don’t have to clarify it with “Just Kidding”. They don’t wear thier feelings on thier shoulders. And Czech men aren’t so emotional like American men. Several czech ladies I know have come to the states and say how they love that American men are so open with their emotions. Then after 3-6 months, they are pulling out their hair saying, “I can’t take it, he’s so emotional, such a big baby!”
As for the bread – it’s # 1 on the list. I grew up HATING sandwiches! Then I meet my husband and he introduces me to actual good bread. What a lifesavior 🙂
1. The beer
2. Praha
3. The lovely girls.
I don’t know which has been more enjoyable, the “10 things better” or all the comments.
My comment is: what about the oblozene chlebicky?? This really should be in the top 10!
Quality of bread – agreed I MISS ROHLIKY!
Daily exercise consists of more than just pressing your foot on a gas pedal – totally true, b/c the communists wanted you healthy and back at work! ;P
Architecture has much more personality – beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the truth is you can go from town to town and they do not all look the same.
Public transportation is not used just by homeless people and ex-cons – that’s communism ;PP
Fruit and vegetables taste REAL (not like the weird, tasteless, waxy-looking stuff that is available in the conventional US grocery stores) – not true, ORGANIC food tastes real. Most grocery stores sell vegetables grown in water not soil, same with flowers. That’s why flowers from Stop and Shop don’t smell like those in your garden
Not everyone is suing everyone for everything – oh come on, you’re not fun! American law is so much fun that some lawers totally revel in it!
Burty ( type of kielbasa) – I think I speak for Elizabeth too when I say FUUUUJ! 😛
Universal public acceptance of beauty of Svickova and Vepro, Knedlo, Zelo – which are actually so delicious when vegan made and in fact much healthier ;P
Visiting another country doesn’t actually take 10 hours of flying – try LA and Meheecoh! Or how about those Cannux?
YES – homes are built to last more than 5 times longer. In fact, if I ever become a millionaire I’m asking Czech builders to come build my next shack! Moving there would be too much of a hassle with my kitty cats.
No asking to see the President’s birth certificate after they have already posted a shorter version acceptable for citizenship, and making it into a politically divisive issue as propaganda, since there was already too much propaganda under Soviet control.
Sniper, is that who you are or what you do? :PPP
And YES Svoboy! OMG no one mentions beer? I have to search for Czechwar here, even after 30some years I find Czech beer the best!
Laura I think was Pichman originally, many names change here and leave out some letters, or change letters like Wanek instead of Vanek etc., anyway Pichman is still of German origin not Czech. Most authentic Czech names mean a Czech word. The rest are from Germany, Austria, Hungary, neverneverland….:PP
Jana not so much single mom and daycare for me as I don’t get healthy young women needing a nanny.
I have such an urge to send them to Sudan to see what a hard life is really like ;PPP
Vlastimil, I’ll give you that! Reading between the lines is practiced a whole lot more in Europe, in fact people almost crave it. Here, you tell a joke, you have to say: it’s a joke. Then people laugh. WT eff is with sitcoms and that fake laughter machine????
Romana, go to a Russian store and buy drozdi, all your pecivo will taste like ‘yer granny ustah make for ya’
Thanks Marika, will try that!
Welcome! I get such an awfull feeling from seeing that giant kielbasa whenever I mozey on down here.
Please, consider seeing this film folks, it may change your life and especially, health.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW3gunMSCu4&feature=related
In Czech you can buy horse meat, I definitely love it. It is lean and tasty.
In USA, at least in my surrounding area it is not allowed to
sell horse meat. But it is allowed to slaughter horses for meat export to France… Viva la France!!!
Vlastimil,
I truly wonder sometime how your cpu works… you know, the one on your neck. What’s the point of the above comment, after that touching necessary trailer I posted. Are you just brushing it off, or showing yourself a victim? The victims are animals, who are not trated as living beings and they belong on this planet to. WE over produce them WE abuse them. One day, when aliens land on Earth and start making salami out of Vlastimils, you will remember my words and find compassion for ALL living beings, but by then you will have become a burt!
(I assume this reply tickles your fancy. Dammit Klarka, how do you make the hacky???! I need a Czech keyboard.)
As far as I know, the aliens are vegetarians 😉
lol ( DO NOT ASSUME, you’ll make an ASS out of U and ME)
Marika, it depends on your program. If you have window, just go to settings, region, & languages and activate the czech language. Then you can switch back n forth between EN & CZ by clicking alt/shift. Most of the czech letters are the #’s.
Marika, if you have windows, just go to settings then Regions/Languages and activate CZ. Then you can switch between CZ & EN by using Alt/Shift. Most of the czech characters are the # keys on your keyboard. For example, the 7 becomes the ý or the 5 becomes the ř. You can find a prinout of what #’s are what czech letters by google’ing czech keyboard.
haha, just like Marika, I got interrupted while posting then and by time I came back to it, it was gone. I didn’t realize I sent it and so wrote it again 🙂
I like the list but the comments are shocking. I know MANY Czech women living in the US who are FAT–I grew up here (of Czech decent) and I look super skinny next to them. AND, I have known very few good Czech mothers except those raised here. The Czech women from Czech that I know have NO education and they have no way of passing on literacy or numeracy to children. Their job qualifications? Starbucks, Target, cashier, if they are even willing to work. Their hopes, right up there with Jana, screwing some guy and making him pay for life. It’s like they went from the Communist government supporting them to the US Child Support and Alimony system. They are just nasty! (not you Tanja). However, those who grow up/grew up here, much better, much kinder, much slimmer. I just get sick of the lazy, drop them in day care or with the cheapest sitter I can find, get my clothes for children from the Salvation Army or charity cause I will never spend a dime on my kids myself, the cheap-skate mentality about kids, it’s disgusting.
Thanks for the tip – just heard there’s a Czech keyboard made of rubber you can put on top of your laptop… we’ll see.
Marina I’m so sorry that is all you see. It’s unfortunate and you could say this pretty much about any country, nationality in the world. There are people in Alabama who can’t read and squirrels, and Czech women who made a name for themselves in the US ( like Tanya:P )
I always believed the world is what you make of it. My dad was a pediatrician, but he came from nothing. It’s all up to what you do, how you choose to live your life and what kind of people are in your immediate circle. The rest is just a screensaver baby!
Marina, I guess you live and work in such an environment where you meet only these kind of women. If I were still single ( I was taken very early, I was a really hot cake 😀 ) I could easily find Czech women who can read and even write. I know Czech and Slovak women ( they all are of one kind anyway) who are very successful, are managers, enterpreneurs or/and very good mothers and wifes. Freeloaders and golddiggers can be found in any nation and race. I have to admit I met really nasty Czech women too, but you see what you want to see. If you want to see a beauty, you will see a beauty
MariKa, you sound like a very smart lady 😉 I agree with what you wrote. Where did you learned to write? I am sure it could not happen in Czechoslovakia (or Czech Republic) ? 😉 I am a man so maybe it explains that when I came to US, I could already read and write. Now I am working on understanding of what I am writing about . It looks like we men are one step ahead. It can be explained by the fact that man was created first and then …. you know, everything has been said in Bible 😉
BTW—just kidding !!! :))
Amen brotha! I’d take a ‘hot cake’ who thinks like this anyday, but he’d have to turn vegan!! :PPP
Good thing you’re taken, you’d have to convert for me:)
I think too much brain in a woman is bad too, hahahaha, I can’t find a guy I can spend more than 10 minutes with. Either he says something stupid or ask me the same question that a law student once asked me: You’re from where? Czechoslovakia? Is that in Germany?
Your world is what you make of it, eliminate the idiocracy and find a group of people who make you happy. Then finnish the rest of your life in peace. That’s the best thing you can do.
Vlastimil, don’t know about the Bible, I’m a Buddhist, but from what happened to me seven years ago during a car crash I’m leaning toward Christianity…anyway, I learned to write Cesky v Cesku and I learned to write English in American. I began seventh grade here at a private school, taught by nuns.
My dad paid a pretty penny for my grade school and high school. I graduated from a public school because I spent my last year of HS in a public HS desperate to meet some boys (didn’t give this reason to my parents of course, and still, no guy ever asked me out in HS or in college ;((( even now, it’s always a friend asking on their behalf, I’m begining to think men have no guts. My degree is in drama and I studied a lot of higher level English courses, Shakespeare etc. and I’m a published journalist, writing a book, but I’m not going to boast about my writing since I see the stupid mistake I made above in my post where I meant to say that there are people in Alabama who can’t read or write and eat squirrels. I guess you do need a verb in a sentence, hahahaha!
I took squirrels for a verb. Even if I were not taken, you would not have any luck converting me into eating grass. In this regard I am a hard nut to crack 😉
I am always upset if people generalize. Of course, if one traveler landed in a ghetto and then left, then his report about America would be: “America is a ghetto”. If some other traveler landed in a China Town, then his report would be: “In America everybody speaks Chinese”. If Marina is surrounded only by stupid Czech women who cannot read and write , then she reports: “Czech women cannot either write or read, that’s why they work in Starbucks ” 😀
Jana, Slavic women are real beasts 🙂 But if you don’t know, I will tell you a secret (pssst) : Men love bitches… In ancient times, Slavic women were in high demand on Slavic festivals. Later Romans renamed these festivals to Slave auctions 😉
Vlastimil….and if he landed in Provincetown, he’d return home claiming everyone in America is GAY!
Hahaha ;P
MariKa, I’d totally ask you out
As for these generalizations, I can think of many people who would contradict the stereotypes for both countries (except for the beer).
For example, here we know many Czech-immigrants that are successful and hard working engineers, doctors, entrepreneurs, etc.
But maybe that’s because I live in Canada
😀
MariKa, I see you got a date 😉
LOL Vlastimil, you see that? Nick said this because it’s safe, right Nick? He’s all the way in Canada, he doesn’t have to put up or shut up. Also, men never ask women out because of what they write on line, they have to see a picture first. Men have two brains and they use the first, and then then second only if the first says it’s okay ;P
I’ve made peace with dying alone long time ago.
Here’s what I want (and yes I know it doesn’t exist)
A guy:
25-45 yo
any nationality
speaks more than two languages
practices martial arts
understands computers
likes to travel, is outdoorsey and likes nature
loves animals and doesn’t eat them or wear them
can dance, both modern and social
is funny, but not to the level of funny all the time I need to jump off a bridge
likes to read and is well read, well educated
job: pref. geology or some type of science that has to do with Earth sciences
likes watching science fiction and martial arts films, foreign indies
can cook (veg food of course, but creative)
can tolerate me when I change my mind about all of the above, IF
I hate how so many people from degenerate societies feel perfectly fine to critique Czechs and Czech society. An American calling anyone fat or dysfunctional is the joke of the century. I also find the right wing politics amusing…. I suppose Lustrace worked on some idiots.
I am libertarian, so I am safe… Obama would be a great guy for Czech Republic … I really wish he would go there…. and stay. Czech Republic needs changes. But please, don’t ban rohliky
Vlastimil, Yes, many smart people but maybe all of those with a college education stayed in Czech? Yes, I live here and grew up here and I am fairly slim. I do see many large Czech women–is it the food they eat when they get here?
Honza,
you make me want to pick up and read that copy of Haunted Land I have here when you use big words like ‘lustrace’ :PPP
PS: people in Czech or the US are not ‘fat’ because they barely move. I see many fat women in both countries who are fairly active…. they get fat, because poverty forces them to eat processed foods.
Rich folk all over the world, if educated, choose to eat unprocessed foods and are fairly slim. That’s my two cents.
MariKa, you are right. That’s why I buy food at Farmers Markets each Sunday.
Companies producing processed food are criminals, much worse that drug dealers. And they are killing many more people that drug dealers.
OK listen, I see the point Mr. Thomas Robert Malthus was making, in re: to economy, so I get the benefits and necessity of population control, but I can’t help think (as unBuddhist of me it may be) that it would be best to control population based on education level and not poisoning entire nations as a whole.
I have a feeling that our governments are looking at it as survival of the fittest – you know, those with the strongest immune system thrive, while others succumb to cancer, and many other diseases.
It’s funny I’m writing about it here, because it’s part of a science fiction story I am writing now. I know Clockwork Orange got a lot of people’s panties up into a bunch and me originating from Czechoslovakia, I can just hear the comments and criticisms when my book comes out, but c’est la vie. Creativity is a drive, it’s not something one can control, so when I’m finally done with this one, brace yourselves!
What an excellent idea!! Kill stupid people by hamburgers and let live smart people to serve fillet mignon on silver plate 🙂 But how will we deal with Czechs ( the stupid ones) , who eat pork, fatty soups, dumplings and they thrive and are happy !!! I think they should eat more US beef… I think in the Czech valley the food quality is far more superior to the food in US. Of course, here in US I have choice, I go to farmers market and buy fresh grass fed chicken for $5 instead of $0.99 chicken sold in food supermarkets and being raised in concentration camps.. I don’t know how it is now, but in the old golden communist times I was able to make cottage cheese out of milk I bought in store. Try to make cheese of the milk being sold in US. In New Jersey it is not allowed to sell raw milk, so I have to drive across the border to Pennsylvania and buy raw milk there, where it is completely legal. Luckily there is no milk police on the interstate border .
You know what is in milk right? GLUE
Did you watch the Hard Copy on youtube “Dangers in milk?” If you have kids and you buy milk you MUST see this. Find a farm close to you, examine it and buy milk from them or switch to Almond like me.
We are citizens of the world, all of us. One Love, One Life.
Eric, smoking mms this early in the morning is not health beneficial :PPPP