Poles are (family friendly / religious / traditional / conservative): True or False? Why?

Hi Everybody!

Please give your opinions about these sentences: (if they are wrong, please correct them JUST in one sentence.)

- Poles are the most family-minded of Europeans.
- Importance of religion among Poles is as much as it is among other Europeans.
- Poles are traditional in mind, but modern in practice.
- Most Poles are conservative because of the impact of former communism.

AND

Please let me know bout distinctive feature or features of Poles/Poland in comparison with other European countries.

AND I hope you will give impartial opinions. And if you know of a site to provide COMPARATIVE information about Poland (in comparison with other European countries please mention.)

Dziękuję

you need a solid data / statistics not opinions to make claims like this .

7d-culture.nl - or google Trompenaars and Hamden-Turner

Also google Geert Hofstadter, though I'm not sure if his work covers PL or not.

Frankly both go a bit beyond the rather obvious categories you have posted above.

I need personal opinions of Poles, TOO.

The problem is, Justyna, you need generalized opinions. While generalized opinions make little sense. OK, saying "Poles are generally less family-minded than the Italian or Greek" would perhaps make some sense. How do you measure that? By rate of divorces or?

The questions are wrongly formulated.

As for me and only me:
-- I'm am not a family-minded man
-- Religion is of little importance to me
-- I'm modern in mind and in practice although I do not run after every new thing just because it is new but only if the new thing is good.

-- Who is conservative? I? ;-) I'm modern because I do not want to conserve anything what remained from the communist order.

Of course, some lady here had said I was statistically insignificant but she was an American ;-)

Thank you. :) Your reply is what I wanted. I hope others will give their personal opinions, too. Because I want personal experience and opinions.

No, they are conservative due to the RC religion all Poles and Polesses have had a contact with all their lives.

Czechs are far less religious than Poles and Polesses and in result less con.

Check this example:

An unusual situation at the swimming pool in Prudnik

A rather unusual appeal to foreign guests of the facility recently appeared in one of the swimming pools in Poland. Important information written in Czech was placed at the ticket office of the "Sójka" indoor swimming pool in Prudnik. It included a polite message about changing clothes behind the designated curtain at the pool, and not in the shared locker room. It turns out that our neighbors do not go to designated cabins for this purpose, but do it in front of everyone, including children.

- Guests from the Czech Republic changed in the locker rooms, next to the lockers, and not behind curtains - explains Małgorzata Halek-Malinowska, director of the Sports and Promotion Agency of the Prudnik Commune, in an interview with NTO. - We do not have a separate area for adults or a zone for people using the sauna. The same locker rooms are also used by children with their parents or those coming to swimming school, hence our appeal to adapt to the applicable rules.

NTO journalists managed to talk to the Czechs about such behavior at the swimming pool. For them it is completely normal and they are surprised at what it looks like in Poland. At swimming pools in the Czech Republic, there are no specially designated changing areas in men's locker rooms.

- In our country, no one is offended by dressing up in front of children. At the swimming pool in Prudnik, I didn't notice anyone getting naked in the shared shower. People are ashamed. But for health and hygiene reasons, it's better to wash thoroughly after swimming, said the Czech woman.

Poles and Polesses have also noticed a more liberal approach from our neighbors.

- I often use the swimming pool in Czech Village near Jesenik - says a resident of Głuchołazy. - It even happened that a father brought his several-year-old daughter to the shower together because he had no one to leave her with. And he didn't care that there were naked men bathing nearby. For others, it's an embarrassing situation.

The UN has also noticed the societal differences towards children.

UN Child Rights Committee issues findings on Czech Republic, Eswatini, Poland and Switzerland

Czech Republic

The Committee was seriously concerned about a growing number of children exploited in prostitution and pornography. The Committee urged the State party to effectively investigate child sexual exploitation, particularly abuse online and in the tourism sector.

Poland

The CRC was concerned about the persisting practice of corporal punishment and domestic violence against children. It recommended that the State party strengthen measures to eradicate corporal punishment, particularly at home, and make childcare and educational facilities legally obliged to safeguard children against violence.

ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/09/un-child-rights-committee-issues-findings-czech-republic-eswatini-poland-and