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

For me Poland is central european country in every aspect. I've written arguments few pages ago.
Only one debetable point is a language because polish is in a slavic group. But still WEST slavic, we don't have sings typical for eastern european languages ( cyrylic) what makes us closer to the rest of Europe.

My foreigner friend told me polish sounds for him as mix of french, german and russian.

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

Poland is central european country in every aspect besides slavic language. Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland are called western slavic countries cause they have different influences of other european languages. We have different letters than Russians. Polish language has many words originally coming from french, hungarian, even german language.

The next not common thing with the rest of eastern european countries is religion. We are mostly catholics, the next protestants ( what is common for western european countries).

If we mean culture way, Poland is shared. In southern - west Poland - Silesia there is many german influences in our dialect, our dishes are similar to german dishes.

So definitely culture of Poland is mixed between east and west.
Political way ? Come on. Some posts made me laugh, especially when someone wrote polish politics is similar to east european countries.
Really ? I don't think Poland would be a member of the European Union if that's the same. LOOK we have the XXI century! Someone must be a big ignorant If calls Poland eastern european country, at least nowdays. In past I could agree Poland was eastern country in many cases. But absolutely not today.

Geographically, culturally, politically Poland is CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRY what means country between west and east.