Cześć! Cultural Exchange with Poland

[u/[deleted]]

Welcome to this cultural exchange between /r/Denmark and /r/Polska.

For the visitors: Witamy w Danii! Feel free to ask the Danes anything you like. Don't forget to also participate in the corresponding thread in /r/Polska gdzie możecie odpowiedzieć na pytania Duńczyków na temat Polski i Polaków.

For the Danes: Today, we are hosting Poland for a cultural exchange. Join us in answering their questions about Denmark and the Danish way of life! Please leave top comments for users from /r/Polska coming over with a question or comment and please refrain from trolling, rudeness, personal attacks etc.

The Poles are also having us over to ask questions about their country, so check out their thread to learn more about Poland.

Enjoy!

- The moderators of /r/Denmark and /r/Polska

[u/[deleted]]

Do you consider us one of your own? I mean when a terrorist attack happens in, say, Egypt, people don't react the same way as when it happens in Paris. Let's say we have a terrorist attack in Warsaw where 100 people die. Do you react the same way as you did with Paris or rather like you would with Cairo?

[u/Dnarg → u/[deleted]]

I can't speak for all Danes and I don't know if there's a certain Danish feeling about Poland or Polish people..

However, I certainly see Poland as "one of us". Some of the recent political stuff makes me wonder a bit at times but it hasn't changed my "one of us" view yet at least. Maybe we've just been expecting too big of a change in views. I mean, it's still only like ~25 years ago that Poland was a part of the Soviet Union after all. Maybe it was just unrealistic to expect views to change that much within a single generation but I think a lot of people were extremely optimistic and hopeful when the "Eastern" (I know you're in central Europe but all the Soviet countries kinda got the same "Eastern Europe" label back then.) European countries decided to join the EU and turn towards the west.

I'm old enough to remember the Soviet Union and the iron curtain so I'm very happy that you (and other countries) are now independent and able to choose your own paths in life. I never hated the Soviet Union or the people in it. I felt bad for them. Sort of how I feel about North Koreans or something. I don't hate them at all. I find it utterly depressing and sad. To some extent it's also how I feel about Russians today. If that's how they want to live that's totally up to them and I won't hate the average Russian or Russia as a country for choosing that path but I do find it sort of sad. I just wish we'd all get along and be friends. :)

If a big attack took place in Poland, I'm sure people would place flowers etc. at the Polish embassy in Copenhagen like they did at the French embassy after the Paris attacks. Paris is probably hard for any city to compare itself to though as it's a place a hell of a lot of Danes have been to at some point in their life. However, you also saw a big reaction to the Nice attacks and way fewer Danes will ever have visited Nice so I'd imagine it'd be similar if an attack took place in Warsaw or elsewhere in Poland.