Not sure if you are dealing with the same thing but most people I talk to here STILL call the Czech Republic/Slovakia Czechoslovakia….and Prague is, of course, the capital of Czechoslovakia. Those two nations have split up 19 years ago!!!!!
Please vote here so we can compare our experiences.
CZ: Take se vam zda, ze vetsina cizincu uplne ignoruje to, ze se Ceskoslovensko rozpadlo jiz pred 19 lety? Nezapomente vyplnit anketu, at si muzeme porovnat nase zkusenosti.
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Hi to all of you, I was just curious if those of you, who were born and raised in Czech/Slovakia and moved to the USA later in life, celebrated Thanksgiving and stuffed yourself with a big ol’ turkey this year? Or do you ignore this holiday since it is foreign to the Czech/Slovak culture?
CZ: Ahoj vsem! Zajimalo by me, jestli jste vy, Cesi a Slovaci, kteri jste vyrostli v Cechach/na Slovensku, ale nyni zijete v Americe, slavili Dikuvzdani (omlouvam se, nejak se mi to tu hemzi carkami, takze gramaticky dobre ta veta asi sestavena nebue)? Pecete krocanka nebo tyto svatky ignorujete?
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Did you know that Bill O’Reilly has a twin brother? Yes, it’s true! His name is Luis De Funes and all of the Czechs know him from a comedy movie we used to watch (at least once a year) when we were kids called “The policeman from San Tropez” (Cetnik ze San Tropez).
Am I right or am I right?
CZ: Neprijde vam, ze Bill O’Reilly ma francouzkeho dvojnika Luis de Funese? Jestlize ne, tak se poradne mrknete na tyto fotky:
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In a few weeks I am going to be hosting a dinner party for some of our friends. I suggested to make a traditional Czech meal and they got very excited about that idea. But now I am afraid I don’t know what to cook! There is so much (so little?) to chose from!
A regular non-Czech person is not going take a potato pancake or a stuffed fruit dumpling for a main course. No way. Or should I risk it? [click to continue…]
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If you still have trouble figuring out if you are Czech or part-Czech this is a test question number 179:
DO YOU HAVE PROBLEMS ACCEPTING COMPLIMENTS?
Let me give you an example. If someone says, let’s say:”You look nice today!” Do you simply answer “Thank you” or do you start babbling about how that is not really true because you really need a haircut and your dress does not really match the shoes or do you dis-validate the compliment by saying “Oh, that’s just the make up I am wearing – you do not want to see me without it!”
I have lived in this positive, compliment-abounding country for 12 years and I STILL have problem with this! I don’t know how about you but that one is hard to change…Why is that?
Let’s have a vote on that! (vote below)
CZ: Nemyslite, ze Cesi spatne prijimaji komplimenty? Ja osobne s tim neustale bojuji (i po dvanacti letech zijici v pozitivni, komplimentami zasypavajici Americe) a jak jsem se tak zeptala kolem, tak me ceske kamaradky s tim take mnohdy zapasi. A co vy? A proc vlastne??
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This has been a hot topic of discussion here at the CMD for a long time. Assuming you have lived abroad for a while, would you go back to the Czech Republic for good? Is the answer ‘yes, of course!‘ or ‘no way, are you crazy??‘ VOTE HERE!
CZ: Pro ty co ziji v cizine jiz nejaky ten patek: vratili byste se nekdy do Cech? Ne jen na dovolenou, ale navzdy? Zucastnete se nize uvedene ANKETY a v komentech popripade uvedte Vase duvody:
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I have always thought that decorating your backyard with light-up skeletons and graves is kind of strange (not to mention the electric bill!). Then you throw that candy-begging business in it and you get a holiday called Halloween. The Czechs and Slovaks have also kind of a scary holiday called the St. Nicholas Day, but at least the figure of the devil (who tends to scare kids where ever he goes) is ballanced out by the beautiful, holy and secret angel as well as by the Saint Nicholas! Halloween is like: “The more witches, ghosts, blood and dead people, the better!…and gimme some more eye-ball candy with that!!!”
I don’t ignore the holiday I am just little more mellow about it. I decorate my house with a bunch of pumpkins, dig out my strawman and pig out on candy. No skeletons for me – thank you! How about you, what do you think of this ‘holy-day’? VOTE!
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Throughout my Czechmate Diary years I have met some very nice people who were born and raised in former Czechoslovakia but no longer feel comfortable speaking the language. They emigrated in their late teens or early twenties and never came back. The communist regime either destroyed any will to speak the language or they just found no other Czechs to talk to in their new home country. The question is, if someone asks them what nationality they are, what will they answer?
CZ: Behem tech par let co bloguji jsem potkala velmi zajimave lidi, kteri se narodili (a nekdy take vyrostli) v byvalem Ceskoslovensku, ale cesky uz nemluvi. Bud v jejich nove vlasti nenasli nikoho, s kym by se mohli cesky bavit, anebo na to proste nemeli chut. Co si myslite, vy, jsou stale povazovani za Cechy?
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I am not sure what to make of this, but about 85% (maybe even 87%!!) of the time when I meet someone new (and they find out I am Czech) he/she tells me one of their ancestors was Czech or Slovak. Does it mean that the American nation is really just a bigger Czechoslovakia which calls itself the United States of America (and yes, a little detail, people speak a different language)? You may have noticed that the Czechmate Diary’s under-title is ‘small Bohemian steps to world domination’ but heck, maybe we have already overtaken the world since most Americans have Czech and Slovak ancestors! In that case I would have to change it to something more current, something like “Small Bohemian Steps to Cosmic domination”;0). [click to continue…]
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All Czechs and Slovaks are acquainted with socialized health care from their birth country. Obama’s bill wants just that, except it is extremely divisive. Strong majority of Americans want health care reform, they want cheaper insurance policies, lower co pays and deductibles. But the majority of them do not want Obama’s reform. It will put this country billions of dollars in debt and it also happens to be unconstitutional.
What do you think?
CZ: Vsichni mame z nasi rodne zeme zkusenosti ze socialnim zravotnim pojistenim. Obama se snazi udelat neco podobneho, akorat ze jeho zakony zadluzi Ameriku nekolika desitkami bilionu dolaru a to, ze bude vlada nutit Americany, aby si poridili zdravotni pojisteni je protikonstitucni.
Co si o tom myslite vy?
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