Witamy w Polsce! - Welcome to Poland!
Poland is my family’s ancestral home and the nation has a rich heritage that is a combination of Western and Eastern culture. This mixture is noticeable in everyday life, it is a mix of traditional folk culture and contemporary culture created in the large cities such as Warsaw, Gdansk, and Krakow. In daily life the Polish people participate in the arts whether that is the cinema, theater performances or literature.
The Polish people are an expressive and proud people especially given the recent history of the country from the start of world war II to the fall of the iron curtain in 1989. They are especially expressive in religion and more specifically the Christian denomination of roman Catholicism. The catholic church has been a part of polish daily life for centuries now and the great majority of the population still goes to church at least weekly. To some people this has become a daily thing in their lives.
Poland is recently new to the capitalist system and is still a developing country but their structure is very much well put in place and is in the finishing touches. Daily life from a working point of view is now more of a western mindset. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall there was no privatization of business and the working daily life of the Polish people was the work of the state.
Culture. Think Poland. (n.d.). Retrieved March 8, 2022, from https://www.thinkpoland.org/en/culture