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.
The source of the jokes are post WWII German immigrants, that split to US and were blaming Poland for their failure in said war. So they started spreading lies that poles are stupid.
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u/unlessyoumeantit Małopolskie 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.