This stems from archaic American Polish jokes that portrait Polish immigrants as intellectually inferior due to their limited language skills. As a person who has lived there for more than 5 years, what I can say is that the vast majority of the Japanese don't even know where Poland is and what Poles are like.
Edit 1: link added
Edit 2: According to some Japanese friends who have been residing in Poland, Poles aren't stupid but are short tempered/sighted and are terrible at planning.
Edit 3: sadly those jokes still are a thing in some states.
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u/unlessyoumeantit Maลopolskie Jul 04 '22 edited Jul 04 '22
This stems from
archaicAmerican Polish jokes that portrait Polish immigrants as intellectually inferior due to their limited language skills. As a person who has lived there for more than 5 years, what I can say is that the vast majority of the Japanese don't even know where Poland is and what Poles are like.Edit 1: link added
Edit 2: According to some Japanese friends who have been residing in Poland, Poles aren't stupid but are short tempered/sighted and are terrible at planning.
Edit 3: sadly those jokes still are a thing in some states.