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@leno_o17 Yes, as You wrote. And there are more differences, like religion and historical baptism of Poland (which in case of Poland was from Roman Catholic Church, not Orthodox one, which meant in history not only religion itself, but cultural sphere), alphabet (in Poland Latin, not cirillic), and many other differences. So it's definitely not like the person above wrote. Just the opposite - after the WW II for the rest of the world countries that used to be at the communist side of the Iron Curtain started to be "Eastern Europe". But communism lasted fortunately only 50 years, and history of Poland is over 1000 yeas. So rather those that being Polish have some complexes, still call Poland "Eastern", which is wrong.
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It's not true about air pollution. Poland is a member of the EU since 2004 and had to apply the EU common environmental policy and standards. There's only an issue of using coal to heat some of the private houses (not all, some only of the older ones). But it may be some problem with it only under certain atmospheric and geographical conditions, definitely not all the time and not everywhere. So only when it's more cold and people heat their houses more, so only on same days in winter, and when there's for instance low atmospheric pressure and no wind. And in places located in a valley or similar. So not everywhere, not all the time, only in some places, only on some days, only about coal usage in some private houses. And actually the same problem is also in other European countries with similar weather, atmospheric and geographical conditions, where people use coal to heat the houses. So it's a stereotype about all this generally called "air pollution" nowadays in Poland.
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@emigrant4life It's just not true. There are stereotypes like this about Polish, because they generally oppose to the EU current immigration policy, accepting big, sudden, uncontrolled waves of illegal immigrants, that causes many problems and threats about state's safety and public order, seen in some other European countries. And also because Poland is quite homogenous ethnically, while in other European countries it looks different - because Poland was never a colonial state and never had any overseas colonies. But ordinary people, at least vast majority of them (because there can always be some marginal exceptions, everywhere) are definitely not racists. Just as an example, You can check YouTube channels: "Kim jestem" - of a Korean living since years in Poland (and also his Korean parents are living with him in Poland) or "Ignacy z Japonii" - of a Japanese also living since more years in Poland. On both channels they have so many so positive comments, from so many Polish people. And there are more examples like that. Generally, Polish people accept those immigrants, that respect their culture, values, country and legal order. I can only admit that Polish are for sure much more doubtful about muslim immigrants (because of their often hostile attitude towards other religions, culture, values etc., and problems arising because of that). And about Ukrainians Polish are so "intolerant" (it's of course irony) that when the war started all the Polish opened widely not only the borders, but private houses, taking whole Ukrainian families, for more weeks, directly to their houses, helping millions of them. Making so many packages with necessary things, like food, medical products, cosmetics, collecting private money to help invaded Ukrainians - doing this within families, at workplaces, at churches. Almost everyone was doing this in Poland, to help the Ukrainians. They received also many social and other benefits from Polish state, could learn for free at Polish schools, could get health care, and many others etc. So all this was indeed, so "intolerant".
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@emigrant4life Yeah, indeed, Ukrainians or Bellarusians have reasons to complain, really (irony). If they do so, one should ask which regime they actually support (because among them are also many Putin followers). And it's just in that case also huge ingratitude. Because Polish people and Polish state spent already so much resources to help them (not being the wealthiest country themselves), not mentioning great military help. And also don't write things that You just don't understand, because relations between Poland and Ukraine are much more complex, also because of historical experiences - just read about the Volhynia and Eastern Galicia genocide on Polish civilians by Ukrainian nationalists in the years 1943-1945 (more than 100 000 Polish civilians were murdered then, in the most inhuman, unimaginable, bestial way, one by one), especially about so-called Bloody Volhynian Sunday. And watch the movie "Volhynia". So it's just easy to repeat senseless, fake stereotypes.
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@emigrant4life Shouting "Polska dla Polaków" (Poland for Polish) - I've never met and don't know anyone behaving like this, among all ordinary Polish people. So You maybe say this about some kind of very narrow margin, like some specific environments for instance sometimes maybe, in some individual cases, of some radical football fans. And also there was one political party that was using such similar words (about Ukrainians, like "stop ukrainization of Poland"), but they were actually probably supported and financed by Russia (unfortunately Russian propaganda and trolls serving the Putin's regime are quite active currently), and they didn't get many votes in the elections at all (and as I already said about, relations with Ukrainians are complicated, from different reasons, also historical ones). So of course, You can always find, everywhere, some very marginal radical example. But this is not the real picture, at all.
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LOL, really. What You write just shows how ignorant You are about Poland's history. Poland occupied Ukrainian or Bellarus territories, really (LOL). Ask historians and just learn more (I actually know history quite well). It's historically completely untrue. And saying that Poland or Polish committed ever, on anyone, such genocide as Ukrainian UPA in Volhynia - it is such an enormous, extremely harmful historical lie, such a fake propaganda. And for sure we don't call anyone harmfully, just like that "Gypsies", because of their nationality, including people from Your region. I actually met some people for instance from Romania, liked them, made friends with them and I was even in Romania. So it's another stereotype. And also we have not bad relations with Moldova (even Moldovian President Maia Sandu was visiting our country more times, as being also at risk of Russian threats, like Ukraine, neighbouring with Transnistria).
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