USA, Canada /
Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]
Hmm. I think it's the way that they patronise, look down on and act superior to Poles that annoyed me, along with the way that they seem to want to dictate to Poles how Poland should be, without actually being here to make a difference.
Don't the Yanks have this approach with every country...? They have had the lead role in world political affairs through representational multilateral alignment and have dominated the world's economic and political spheres for decades...
If you want a well evaluated and dignified reverence for a country, why would you approach an American for that per se?
To be fair though, It's easy to think you've still got a grip on the goings on in any country once you've spent some time there, and especially if you have had it projected like some myth by your immigrant parents through your ancestral ties.
But this doesn't make that parcel of information necessarily correct or incorrect... it's just harder to maintain a real notion for any place unless you're actually there surrounded by the people, the media, the politics, the everyday life. And it's pointless to pretend otherwise.
The "brotherhood" between Poles and Polaks is dubious at most. I know of many Poles who have family in the States which they simply do not maintain contact with... this says alot about family ties once a cultural barrier is put in place.
