<p>What do u like and do not like about them in regards to their involvement at your school, their attitude to non-polish people, what they do, their belief, etc?</p>
<p>Maybe you even know something about Poland? What pros and cons did you notice or hear about Poland?</p>
<p>there aren’t a lot of Polish people at my college. Russians are the largest group of European students.</p>
<p>There are some people with Polish parents but the kids themselves are as American as anyone else.</p>
<p>based on what i’ve heard, polish people are supposedly very nationalistic and conservative politically and religiously, so kind of like people in the southern U.S.A. except Catholic.</p>
<p>according to wikipedia:</p>
<p>Corpus Christi is a public holiday in some traditionally Catholic countries such as Austria, parts of Germany and Switzerland, Brazil, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Croatia, Poland, San Marino, Trinidad and Tobago and Portugal.</p>
<p>This confirms how this country is very “religious” and conservative as well.</p>
<p>One of my bosses is originally from Poland. To be honest I don’t think theres any discrimination about it if that’s what you’re asking. When you get here to the vast majority of people if you’re from Europe and not from any of the popular countries (or which Poland is not one) you’re just European.</p>
<p>What’s the point of this thread again?</p>
<p>people always ask what part of Poland are you from? Like they would like to know whether I am from better western part, or more backward eastern.</p>
<p>When I went to a party, I was supossedly to pretend to be Irish or Italian, I was asked to by one of people with whom I live in a college dorm.</p>
<p>I go to a 4 year university in Chicago that prides itself in diversity, diverse student population, diverse values. Few weeks ago there was a fest at my school with food from many countries. There was no any Polish table! Thought its little weird because Chicago has a large Polish population, and especially Americans of Polish decent. The only national tables with food included countries like Italy, Germany, Brazil, Cuba, Japan, can’t recall more.</p>
<p>I guess it’s just where I’m from since there isn’t much of a Polish population but nobody really cares either way about Poland here. That isn’t really a bad thing; if I met a person from Poland I’d treat them just like anybody else. It just isn’t a “trendy” European country (Spain, England, France, Italy, Germany) and to be honest I didn’t know there was any divide between the east and west. They may have been just making conversation instead of judging you based off of it.</p>
<p>To be honest, I don’t really know anything about Poland other than that it is in eastern Europe near Germany (only reason I know that is studying about WWII). I certainly don’t think I know any Polish people. I have a friend whose ancestors are from Poland, but she’s as American as can be. I have a few friends and acquaintances from other eastern European countries (Bosnia, Latvia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Russia) so I don’t think I would be opposed to getting to know any Polish if the chance arose. I think when people ask when you are from and what part, they are just curious… or maybe they know someone who went to Poland once, or something.</p>
<p>Do you mean directly from Poland, or of Polish heritage? I attend college in Buffalo, New York, which is known for its large population of people of Polish descent.</p>
<p>i dont know any people right from poland, just kids with parents or grandparents from poland. influence on my campus is really non-existant as theres no polish student group… i dont even think ive met anyone polish. most people are irish in all honesty.</p>
<p>My college had a Polish club. I never went to that club, but my mom is from poland and I can say that yea, polish people are pretty religious. I also know alot of kids of polish parents that are much more polish than me. I never heard anything about east and west parts of poland though, though I’d assume that the eastern part would be called more backwards because it has had more Russian influences.</p>