Thread 214002563

I'm probably going to regret this, asking poles for their opinion historically never ends well
But what do poles think of germans?

>>214002563 (OP)
13% polish here. Germans are weirdos.

>>214002563 (OP)
They are okay

>>214002606
... *Stares a hole through your soul with undiluted disgust and contempt*

>>214002563 (OP)
There was a reason why 12 million of them vanished from Poland.

>>214002563 (OP)
People who moved to Germany are triators and are not welcome in Poland.

>>214003283
Never been to germ many, am I welcome in poland?

>>214002563 (OP)
We think about them 24/7
They don't think about us at all
So at the end it evens out and we think about each other just equally

>>214002889
Where did they go?

>>214002563 (OP)
There is surprisingly little cultural exchange between Germany and Poland for neighboring nations, we don't consume their contemporary popculture, they don't know about ours, so Polish stereotypes about Germans usually date back to WW2 (last time when we had more contact with Germans in Poland) and German stereotypes about Poles are usually shaped by the Polish diaspora in Germany (so you can imagine they're not very positive either) while Germans have no idea about modern Poland and if you ask them about it they generally seem to think that we are Russia lite where ugly illiterate Slavic grugs plow their fields with vodka-drunk polar bears. Maybe Berliners also know that there is cheap alcohol and cigarettes in Poland so they occasionally go for shopping to the Polish border towns (but god forbid to ever step 100m deeper into Poland, that's "here be dragons" land already).

Poles have both images of Germany in their head, one is that from WW2, so a genocidal machine that is currently turned off and kept quiet by the American army but can reboot any time so we need to be cautious, the other one is that Germany is a perfect, flawless country where everything works like it should and being compared to Germany in any aspect feels like the best compliment. Oh, maybe nowadays there is also a stereotype about Germany being flooded by Muslims and having shariah zones but statistically speaking it's not very widely spread yet, it's mostly used by far-right politicians than really existing in people's consciousness.

But generally Polish-German relations can be described as ignorance and lack of will to learn about the other side more.

>>214003756
There is little cultural exchange between Germany and every single one of their neighbours except austria.
Modern Gemany has no culture, it died in 1945

>>214003847
Well, at least you still had a fair share of cultural exchange with them in the cold war era when German popculture was actually pretty popular across Europe (though it was often just Africans singing in English branded as "Germans" but still). But it ultimately died after 1990.

>>214002563 (OP)
I don't think Poles really come back to Poland en masse, it's more like those Poles who already saved up enough euros to buy a house in Poland come back, while new young people still keep moving to Germany to start earning that for themselves, but since every new cohort of young men in Poland is smaller due to low birth rate, it might give that impression that more Poles return to Poland than immigrate to Germany.

In statistics it might look like that but IRL you don't really feel that, in every small town there is still a job agency with job offers in Germany and Polish internet is full of young people asking about how to get a job in Germany and other peculiarities of life in Germany as an immigrant, even when you see these reddit threads about what people are going to do after graduation then it still feels like 1/3 of them want to move west, mostly to Germany