Poland - anger and defensiveness, Ireland - empathy and sympathy :)
Polish people have such a long history with crappy governments that create awful systems that they have to keep in fighting trim which is why there are so many daily squabbles. Over the last few years there seem to be fewer (maybe a symptom of greater prosperity?) but it's too soon to say what effect coronavirus will have
On the other hand, they don't take such encounters that seriously, I've seen people go from _really_ heated verbal disputes to casual talk about something else within the course of a minute or so. Americans, by way of contrast, mostly go out of their way to avoid verbal arguments because once we start we have no idea how to stop short of total victory (the other person saying "Yes! You're right!" which of course doesn't happen and I've seen long term friendships end over trivial disagreements that escalated out of control.