History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

Merged: IsPoland geographically,culturally or economically considered as Eastern orCentral Europe?

i'm an Asian majoring in Eastern-Europe studies(specifically Czech) and Polish one is also in this category(is in the university of Eastern-Europe studies)

so i have always been thinking Poland automatically is more close to Eastern Europe culturally, economically and so on.
Poland also had a communist form of government like some other Eastern-Europe countries.
Also, the Polish-language belongs to the Slavic-language group along with Russian, Czech and Slovakian.

But i heard somewhere that Polish people in general don't like it when people say Poland is an Eastern-European country. and they like to rather be called as 'Central-Europe'

if this information is true, why is this like that???

i think the standards dividing Eastern and Central Europe is very vague so it actually doesn't really matter. What do you think...???(if it can be divided...)

Travel / Is it safe to travel to Poland? [194]

Merged: Is Poland safe and free from Racism for an Asian to visit???

I'm a girl from South Korea and i might/am planning to visit Poland sometime later.

of course i guess most people are O.K and i have also visited some countries in Eastern/Central Europe like Austria, Hungary and Slovakia before and it was fine.

but i'm honestly a bit worried and I've also heard Poland is like the most homogeneous White country in Europe, and from what i know, there's still quite a lot of Skinheads/Neo-Nazis.

also, these days many people in Europe are being quite hostile to foreigners/immigrants due to Economic-crisis in Europe.

There's also a big chance that they might think me of Vietnamese(or Chinese) because there's so many of them as immigrants. (and of course, i'm not going there to live or something)

Please tell me how the atmosphere is like there towards non-Whites and other ethnicities.

Thanks for reading.