Polish Girls Too Pretty

Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Mar 30, 2007 - Warsaw

Pretty Polish girls have become targets of jealousy andbullying by British schools girls, while British school boys keen towin a Polish girlfriend have picked fist-fights with their Polishrivals, Poland's Zycie Warszawy daily reported Friday.

Most of the Polish teens arrived in Great Britain as part of themassive wave of migrants following Poland's 2004 entry into theEuropean Union. Tall, thin and a blue-eyed blond, Magda Kwiatkowska turned the headsof local boys as soon as she showed up at a high school in London'sActon district. 'It began two years ago with English girls making ironic comments,finger pointing and pushing her around,' Kwiatkowska's mother toldZycie Warszawy. As the threats became more severe, Madga developed anaemia, depression, ulcers and Crone's Disease - an illness of the digestivesystem.

'My daughter was terrorised by other girls who the boys no longerpaid attention to,' says Kwiatkowska's father. 'She begged me topick her up on time after school and was afraid to walk around townalone.' At first he found it hard to believe his daughter's good looks wereat the root of her woes. But even after she transferred to anotherschool, Magda was bullied again by British school girls jealous ofher good looks and the attention she received from boys. Eventually the mean-spirited attacks forced Magda's returned toPoland, where she is attending school and seeing a therapist toovercome the trauma of bullying. Zycie Warszawy also reports that fist fights over Polish girls havebroken out between gangs of British and Polish teenage boys in Lincoln, near Nottingham.