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Oh woops! I've just re-read your original post and indeed I misinterpreted it.
The social capital is bigger in Germany, Ireland or anywhere in western Europe than it is in Poland. I think that's a bit clearer. What say you 'mon brave'?
A suggestion coming from a native speaker of English with the hell lot of Celtic blood in the veins must canot be wrong :-). To be honest, I had the impression of my sentence being a little clumsy. I believe that saying "... or anywhere in WE including Ireland" (instead of "Ireland included") would have made it much better from the very start.
education is regarded not as something useful for its own sake but a tool to increase the economic power of the clan.
In more simpler terms, social capital is practicing honest, decent behaviour on many levels, from being honest in business relations to being honest and helpful in everyday life. The Polish language knew this old-fashioned word for that which was "zacny", a word which has completely come out of use today.
I am reminded of an excellent example of what the "social capital" should not be like. In traditional China when something bad happened to you in the street, for example you have been knocked down by a bicycle and the offender ran away (negative social capital in itself), you could count on the passers-by which would stop and try to help you (as anywhere else in the civilized world). But this in no longer the case in modern China after many instances publicized on TV in which the victim and the family of the victim were accusing the helping person later on of being the culprit of the accident and thus taking them to court for getting a financial compensation for the losses or injuries. Since that people simply stopped taking notice of the victims and quickly pass on to minding their own business.
