>>215944787 (OP)
I guess my country’s history with Poland is the same as your country’s history with Poland, OP, but here’s my perspective anyhow:
Volunteer Tadeusz Kościuszko was a hero of the American Revolutionary War; there’s stuff named after him, but he only seems to be well-remembered in parts of the country with substantial Polish diaspora populations (esp. Chicago?).
Lots and lots of immigrants from Poland to the Midwest in the 19th century, particularly to industrial jobs in Chicago; also moderately large waves of immigrants to factory and agricultural jobs in New England, where the established presence of communities of Irish and French-Canadian Catholics offered some perceived insulation against anti-Catholic sentiments typical of 19th c. WASP America… nevertheless, the Catholic diasporas in the Northeast never much liked each other, either, and did not integrate with one another.
>I grew up in a very small farm town in Western Massachusetts, with a total population of under 4000 people at the time, about 70% of whom were of Polish descent. The village supported two separate Catholic churches, less than a mile apart, one of which was Polish, the other of which was Irish and Franco-American (Quebecker).
Chicago used to self-identify as the city with the second largest Polish-speaking population in the world, after Warsaw, but I have no idea if this is still, or ever was, actually true.
Finally, I assume America is the birthplace of “Polish jokes,” all premised on the idea that Poles are extremely stupid. The Polish kids in my primary school class were officially offended by them but told them to one another all the time.
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