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Poland's westernization [44]
There might be not common political views between england and Holland, but there some common grounds like in Human rights, inmigration policies, rights of women, etc. which to some countries of the east block was asked to join the EU, before that they did not have them.
O common mvefa, next you will tell us that before Polish accession to EU we had slavery in Poland and women didn't have the right to vote. :/
In terms of human and women rights Eastern Europe and western Europe don't really differ (I don't know about Belarus, but Czech republic, Hungary, Poland, etc most certainly don't).
I think that what people think when they say westernization is consumptionism. .
@ MareGaea
You pretty much make a mistake of lumping all Poles into one bag with each other. I can assure you that a professor from a university has a different taste than a guy from a construction site. Maybe in Holland truck drivers read Dostoyevsky, listen to Vivaldi and spend their free time at Opera, but in Poland a menial worker will most likely listen to pop-music, won't read anything apart for some tabloids and spend his free time drinking beer down at the pub.
What are your thoughts? does Poland hates the western culture even though they use it and adapt it to themselves? Or is it just a double faced statement and its fashionable to hate the western culture?
Does Poland hate the western culture? It depends. The simple folk, as I imagine all simple folk in the world, love the consumptionist way of life. After all, this was what they dreamed about and couldn’t get during the commie times. A new TV set, cable TV, a new car and some vacations somewhere nice from time to time. The intelligentsia is somewhat more critical towards consumptionism, preaching the impotance of some higher values and all. Is this that different from wherever you are?
