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Seeing anyone living east of Germany as a half-brained ape has been a norm in the West for roughly 1400 years since slavs spread all over central and eastern Europe, so it's always a bit funny to me, when people are shocked about such discrimination. From my experience I'd say that probably 95% of Poles are completely oblivious to the fact, that opinion about them and slavs in general outside of Poland is very far from what they think it is.
Comment by redwhiterosemoon at 28/07/2021 at 16:15 UTC
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This is very correct. Also, I have men Polish people abroad who act like Polish ‘Uncle Tom’ criticising other Polish people all the time, saying how much better they are than the other Polish and in general trying to hide their Polish heritage. It’s kind of funny because these Polish people are usually the most ‘Polish’. There definitely is a level of self-hatred amongst the diaspora.
Comment by Grigor50 at 28/07/2021 at 22:53 UTC
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Seeing anyone living east of Germany as a half-brained ape has been a norm in the West for roughly 1400 years since slavs spread all over central and eastern Europe
I don't agree. It's the last 70 years or so that have made it so. For many in the West, there was nothing but darkness, misery and poverty behind the Iron Curtain. God knows that there's a lot of truth in that, from a Western perspective...