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Originally Posted by Lups
Where the hell does that even come from, polaks being stupid? I thought I knew every damn euro stereotype but that's a new one for me. I do know my history a little and I know how these usually are formed but Poland is like the country nobody should have shit on.
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Came from the Poles that emigrated here after the 2nd partition of Poland (or Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth). These where Poles from the poor Galicia province, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. Most of them where not educated (couldn't read/write) and tended to do labor intensive jobs when they came to the US. So the language barrier and the fact that they had no formal education got them referred to us the "big, dumb polak". These people basically came from the dirt poor peasant class.