why Poland - Director Professor Krzysztof Koehler from the Polish Book Institute.pdf

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Why Poland?
Some basic info for the English
Publishers
Economy? Values? Quality?
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Economy – politics: in 2015 - 916 000 Poles
lived in GB: add their neighbours, friends, co-
workers etc. so you can tripple this number or
duplicate it
Poles are one of the biggest minorities in UK
Moral obligations
•
We encounter some acts of violence against
Poles in GB, especially after Brexit
•
Situation is difficult but it will exist in time: we
should do something to explain Poles to their
neighbours
•
Help them to understand women and men
from Poland
What average English/man/woman
knows about Poland?
•
Some of them know Krakow as a never-ending
party town
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Some of them relate Poland with such terms
as Holocaust, WW2 etc.
•
Better educated know something about
Solidarnosc, communist era etc
Values from the Past
•
Republicanism (civil society)
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Freedom:
•
civil rights (since
Neminem captivabimus
act
1423)
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Freedom of the speech
•
Multicultural and multireligious Polish-
Lithuanian-Ukrainian Commonwealth (15-18 th
centuries)
•
Tradition of religious tolerance
(The biggest settlement of Jews in Europe)

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