>For some time the readers of our magazines published to enlighten the German public opinion are fed with repeated ad nauseum constant claims that we, the Poles, are part of the western culture, that all our spiritual values were, are and will be absorbed only from the western sources, that we are united with the west and we have nothing to do with the "barbarian East". Reading all of that makes you feel like vomit.
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>No western nation ever shows off with its "westernity" just like we are doing it right now. No one beats his breasts, swearing that he comes from the west, and no one denies any connection to the eastern elements of the culture to the same degree like we do. This zeal could already feel suspicious. Our shouting at every street corner that "we are part of the West", "we are surely part of the West" should harm our internal sense of dignity. Every kind of exaggeration is wrong.

~Self-aware Pole, 1920