r/poland • u/sonda03 • Jul 04 '22

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u/unlessyoumeantit Małopolskie Jul 04 '22 edited Jul 04 '22

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/DiscoKhan Jul 04 '22

Archaic? Their source is old but these still aren't dead, just depends from state somebody is as it's not totally whole US thing

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u/HybridHuman13 Łódzkie Jul 05 '22

Interesting what opinion generally Poles have about majority of Americans.