Slavic Women are Hot

'Right,' you say, as you take in the title of this post. 'How is this news in any way?'

Well, it's not. But because I've recently completed an application for a confirmation of my Polish citizenship, I've been reflecting quite a lot on what it means to be of Slavic descent. Specifically, what it means to be Polish when I was born and raised in Canada and have virtually no understanding of Central European culture.

Today, I was once again pondering this odd new aspect to my life when I remembered that, years ago, I had copied out a passage on Slavic women from a book on Tamara de Lempicka, the Polish painter. This is what Alexandre Dumas had to say about Slavs of the female variety:

These ladies [are] endowed with a fineness of sensibility and an intuition far above the average, which they owe to their double inheritance as Asiatics and Europeans, to their cosmopolitan curiosity, and their indolent habits... these strange creatures who speak every language, hunt the bear, live off sweets, and laugh in the face of every man who cannot master them... these females with voices at once musical and hoarse, superstitious and skeptical, fawning and fierce, who bear the indelible mark of the country of their origin, who defy all analysis, and every attempt to imitate them.

So now, on the shallow end of things, I am of the opinion that it is totally hot and mysterious and awesome to be Polish.