News / Dealing with constant insults against Polish [323]

Ihave dealt with comments all my life, even in academia. Though many ethnicities are made fun of, my view is that, in the U.S. at least, both the Italians and Poles are considered similarly ignorant. I think part of this view may have its origins in the common intense emotionality that flows through our cultures--what compares to an incited Pole (or Italian). That emotionality can be considered antithetical to rationality and intelligence. But it is that very emotionality that has produced wondrous art. Of course, it all gets skewed on the street level. It is that skewing that has skewered us.