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Any good sources on Kashubian history/culture? [4]
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Thread on rights of Kashubs and Silesians in Poland or How to make better place of Poland
Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznańsource >>> cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/24381/ACCEPT_WP5_2012_34_Country-synthesis-report_Poland.pdf?sequence=1
Two fragments from the text >
PiS presents Donald Tusk as a threat to national unity, emphasising his Kashubian origin (see: Nijakowski 2009), or even the fact that his father was conscripted to the Wehrmacht during WWII.
linguistic minorities (Buchowski and Chleiwńska 2010). Again, Silesians are not accorded this status, in contrast to the Kashubians.
So, native Kashubs are seen as pro-German, while they definitely aren`t. They were exposed to genocide by Germans. Now, they are exposed to assimilation in Poland. Somebody wants them to extinct, become non-Kashubs. Silesians on the other hand, don`t even have status of minority. They are aliens in their own native land and country. These are no nice ways to deal with kin Slavs.
But, scandal in itself is that Kashubs have status of minority instead of status of constitutional people considering what Poland have of Baltic is mostly thanks to the Kashubs.
So let us talk and help make Poland a better and more free place.
An article
Kashubian Poles: Struggling with the "fifth column" labelneweasterneurope.eu/2019/03/18/kashubian-poles-struggling-with-the-fifth-column-label/
Kartuzy - a town in the Pomeranian Voivodeship that has long been a cultural center of the KashubiansTwo fragments from an article >
Once the Polish troops entered Pomerania, hence Kashubian lands, the developments in the aftermath led to a culture conflict between the Kashubians and Polish people
"Kashubians were perceived as a fifth column, a foreign element which might betray and switch sides in case of German invasion," Słomczyński said.
