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thickest-slimiest-malware · 2 years ago

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i dont like polish culture that much

whats preserved from before christianity is mostly dziady and other pagan traditions and thats pretty cool, but its not prevalent, maybe even non-existent in the wild (although i hope it is somewhere) and the most common type of person trying to revive those traditions is one that doesnt put in enought effort, tending to make it come across as cultural appropriation, buying generic celtic merchandise and pentagram charms. still i think this is the best traditional aspect of polish/slavic culture, because it doesnt involve christianity.

another aspect of the culture comes from poverty and black out drinking. its not uniquely polish. its not backed by fine art or tradition. however the aesthetic of outdated appliances, commie blocks, risky and illegal behaviour has a mundane charm countering the general idea of what a person is supposed to want. i dont know if this is polish or even slavic culture, its all over the world and it simply comes from a lack of access to resources, leading to tinkering and diy solutions. i do appreciate every reckless driving or explosives video with polish curses. we have the longest commie block in the world afaik, its called falowiec. basically if you combine poverty and cold weather, you get most of the modern polish aesthetic that we like to use to compare ourselves with western europe. my description doesnt do it justice and is all over the place but yeah.

then theres the mediocre cultural aspect of the world wars, which we like to make about ourselves and idolise our suffering, while talking about the jewish side of things only like 30% of the time. but it is something that happened here i guess, everyones grandparents and great grandparents had their lives turned upside down during that time, having to move, change professions and becoming orphans at a high rate. this along with being a russian colony after the war made it so we dont have aristocracy anymore, even though we still had it at the start of the 20th century. the people whose families used to be wealthy before the wars are not as distinguishable as in other countries, which is a good thing. everything about the wars is constantly talked about and ALLLL our movies are about the 2nd war.

christianity is big in poland, we have so many churches and the remains of our pagan traditions are intertwined with christianity, and most peoples beliefs have christianity in them. we have alot of old people who go to church every sunday. we have alot of pretty historical churches as well as new churches that money is being wasted on. its inescapable. americans are right to complain about their problems with christianity but to me american culture is an atheist breath of fresh air. we hardly have culture outside of christianity. there are historical eras im not talking about in this post because im lumping them with christianity. although now that i think about it i should still mention *sarmatism* so you know we had a racism megalomania coloniser era, because its unfair to deny it, but the ideology behind it was still pretty much christianity, just with a fresh side of racism.

there are native polish people in various places, that have cool traditions (the north is known for embroidery and the mountain region for wood carving), but associating with those as someone not born into it is hardly appropriate, bordering on appropriation and should be limited to buying souvenirs

culture is not my area of expertise actually but idk i wanted to post about it for fun nevertheless to have motivation to think abt it. if this post ever gets more than 5 notes please know this is not a good summary and im only posting it bc i dont wanna clog up my drafts or delete it after writing all that text

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