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I'm British in Poland and I think that it's time to go back to the UK! [240]
British bureaucratic culture is based on the assumption that legal requirements should be kept to an essential minimum and officials are meant to serve the citizen.
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In Poland it's quite the opposite.
assumption based on theory
The greatest influence on the present-day Polish bureaucratic environment were the oppressive, Byzantine bureaucracies of the three occupants Prussia, Austria (see Kafka's 'The Trial') and especially Russia in the 19 c.
theoryEverybody can make similar or completely opposite theories about above problem.
Ps where did you get that theory from? I mean about Byzantine influence?
Feliks Koneczny once wrote some similar theories
What about Mongol influence on Russia and communism's bureaucracy ? that theory could cover an explanation of crappy office behavior in Poland very nicely as well.
Sorry I am after night out so my brain doesn't work properly in English :)