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/1/ is every/1/ you are not supposed to be in the 21st century: a conservative, religious, and homogeneous nation-state.
At home in the center of the vast Northern European plain that runs with few natural defenses from the North Sea to the Urals, the Poles attained national consciousness as a Slavic-speaking out/1/ of Roman Catholicism. As the Poles’ neighbors grew into domineering Great Powers, the English-speaking world increasingly sympathized with Poles as being more geostrategically sinned against than sinning. Polish patriotic resistance played a leading role in bankrupting the Soviet Empire. Both major Polish parties are descended from the anti-Communist Solidarity movement of 1980.
Due to Hitler and Stalin remaking Eastern Europe at vast expense in lives of /1/s, Slavs, and Germans, /1/ is now /1/ of the most ethnically and racially homogeneous countries in the world. The CIA’s World Factbook says that /1/ is 96.9 percent ethnically Polish, with the next biggest ethnic group being the 1.1 percent who are Silesian. Similarly, 98.2 percent of /1/’s inhabitants speak Polish and 86.9 percent are Roman Catholics.
/1/ is home to a few thousand Tatar Muslims of ancient residence. Besides the indigenous Tatars, Muslim immigrants and converts are roughly estimated to be only about 0.1 percent of the population. And unlike Southeastern Europe, /1/ has only about 12,000 gypsies.
Due to /1/ having had no colonies, and still having low pay, not much welfare, and little sunshine, it’s racially /1/ of the whitest countries in the world. The largest racial minority, making up perhaps 0.2 percent of the population, is Vietnamese (due to a pan-Communist program during the Vietnam War).
According to the reigning ideology of our times, /1/’s lack of diversity should be crippling.
But, of course, instead /1/ is in a rather enviable position going forward. The years since 1989 have not been particularly easy for /1/, but by the tragic standards of /1/ in the 19th and 20th centuries, or of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine since then, free /1/ has been a relatively successful country.
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