miranda
1 Feb 2008 / #61
There is 2 types of PL emigrations, one is from comunismus times and the second is recent years. I know few people from "old" emigrations and their style of thinking, they are all the same (from my familiar). They remember PL are bad, there is only comunismus and everyone has Fiat 126p or 125p, better ones have Lada :P And to be sure those are things they remember when went out from here. The second type of emigration is for money, recent years. I know this very well, my best friends moved to the UK. This step changed them completely... but those people have clear view what's going here.
there are more than 2 types in my opinion and you are simplifying things. You are talking about groups which are most vocal or have some characyeristics which are prominent.
I personally would not vote when I am abroad. I also think that statistics on who and how many had voted in receant elections would be helpfull in this discussion.
What is interesting for me is the fact that some people in Poland - the so callled popular voters are not better equipped to make a rational choice either.