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my parents are from Poland oh really

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yeah yeah I think it's a lot is a lot of

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fish is it potentially or are you not

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sure you tell me please yeah yeah

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cabbage cabbage tell me who this person

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is this one's tough but maybe what she's

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doing Mary CI wow or not yeah he looks

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familiar they're they're hardworking

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people I've heard they're very

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hardworking very hardw working they work

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very hard will work really hard very

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hard working very hard working yeah from

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the reputation that we harder workers

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apparently so family Orient very they've

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got they've got a difficult history

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haven't they they've always been

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attacked by other countries and they've

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had to learn to survive hi welcome to a

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new episode of easy English now today is

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a very special episode as we're making a

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collaboration with our friends at easy

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polish we wanted to make a combined

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episode about Brits and poles now as of

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today poles are the number one immigrant

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living in the UK so I wanted to know

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what do Brits actually know about the

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Polish do they know any polls are they

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related to any polls and what

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stereotypes did they hear about Polish

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people and Poland now if you want to

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hear the counter question about what

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polls think about Brits then you can

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with easy polish's video up here this is

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what Brits think about the Polish here

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we go can you tell me who this person

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is the liberal leader no no I'm assuming

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his someone in the US governments he is

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the leader of the

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European Parliament I believe wow do you

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know his

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name hair something he's

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the not the CEO of uh the EU but he's

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one of the one of the president

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president of the EU I've forgotten his

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name now where he looks

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familiar is he a European president yeah

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he was that's amazing you got that

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Donald Tusk yeah wow okay you're the

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first person to get that that's really

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good his his name is Donald Tusk or Tusk

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Tusk Tusk that's right he's polish this

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is going to be really difficult unless

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you're into film you into film we

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are bear in mind these are all people in

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the world of

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film these are all four

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brothers Four Brothers

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no you might not know their faces but

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you probably have seen their name they

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have a famous last name uh half movies

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in the in Hollywood I'm right so

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Universal 20th Century Fox no next one

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the next one you say will be them

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Paramount no a production company yeah

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Warner Bros Warner yeah exactly these

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are the Warner Brother Warner Brothers

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oh well done how about this person do

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you know who she

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is could you guess okay I could possibly

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guess from what she's doing it's pankus

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no not pank Mar c Mar okay this one's

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tough but maybe what she's doing Mary

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cury wow or not Mary cury yeah what

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she's doing might might be a clue Mary

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curri yeah yeah good job how did you

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know that we used have we used to have a

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class at my school um which just named

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after her Mary Cy possi yeah wow how'

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you know how you well I just know that

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she was involved with Keem AFF far of I

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think and she developed chemotherapy

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treatment what do you know about Mary

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cury I know she's polish with Polish

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Origins hasn't she do you know football

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at all no not at all no no no yeah he

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looks familiar I can't put my finger on

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who it is if you don't not into football

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then you might not know unless you were

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paying attention to the

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Euros that's reason he looks like

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Michael Owen in my day he plays of

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Poland he's the captain of Poland and

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his name is

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it ends with ski I it's a ski okay and

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last one you hopefully get this yeah

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Robert lusy yeah okay and who is he uh

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poish football player play Barcelona and

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what what did you know about Robert le

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le he's scored a lot of goals for Bayern

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Munich and then went to Barcelona okay

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so link common link there and you've

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mentioned it at least four or five times

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already it's actually UK's I think

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largest immigrant in the last decade I

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think there's something in their bios

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that would would be quite high up that

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would connect

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them right so is it something to do with

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their nationality yeah exactly okay so

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they're Belgian no no no no this Dutch

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going okay German no polish no whoa

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hello last

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minute polish is there a Polish

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Collection it is they're all polish born

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episodes what's kind of things that

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you're told about polish culture is like

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a maybe like stereotypes that you might

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have heard about Polish people

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hardworking dumplings Dum dumplings yeah

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yeah cabbage

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cabbage yeah they work very hard and uh

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yeah I would employ a pole yeah to do a

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job I see food on the world aisles in

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mois and AAS so and you get a lot of

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Polish shops cuz I come from Southeast

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London so there's quite a few polish

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shops there supermarkets that have been

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set up I think is a stereotype but I've

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heard but I've heard they're very hard

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working very hard working um it's very

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good Builders yeah like stereotype

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they're they're hardworking people they

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start at 8:00 and finish at 600 you know

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sort of thing which is not like that not

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the bricks no no I know a lot of them

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obviously do come over particularly with

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like trades worth trades jobs you know

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there's a lot more access to that sort

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of work possibly it's they're like the

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tide in the sea they'll come over and

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then they'll go home again and then

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they'll come back and then they'll go

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home again so it's the work it's a work

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uh balance and I think that's that's why

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they're here but they're great workers

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abrupt like straight to the point

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straight to the point yeah okay which is

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different from Brits from Brits they'll

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dance around and we'd like them now

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we're getting older we're getting that

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way aren't

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we are you happy if you are to have

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building works that a pole would turn up

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as opposed to a Brit oh yeah yeah

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absolutely yeah from the reputation

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harder workers apparently so not that

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I've had much experience of having

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builders in but um but that's like

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that's like um like a positive

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stereotype I guess it it is a positive

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yeah trades right yeah yeah yeah totally

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yeah I would say it's mostly positive my

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parents are from Poland oh really yeah

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okay so they came from Poland during the

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war right when they were children young

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adults so we speak very highly of them

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don't we CA we do this hardworking thing

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is like a reoccurring theme that get

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from people is that a stereotype or is

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that an actual no from what I've

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experienced from them they all work

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really hard like you know want to work

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for their like family is a big sort of

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part of their culture I think OB see

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they want to work hard for their family

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the hardworking thing when is this a

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stereotype or is this something that you

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know of where does this come from well

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we only know one and that's uh Cash Cash

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she's very hard working is she very hard

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working yeah we know a lot of Polish

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people and they they work

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and they work and they work hard

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conscientious aren't they they're

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conscientious ethics don't know any

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Polish people um no I mean you've been

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down the Polish food aisle in the yeah

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of course everyone has one of the people

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I worked with he worked here and he was

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going to go back to Poland and build his

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own house in the countryside so that's

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like a big thing for him for him and his

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family so yeah so I think it's it's not

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a stereotype it's obviously the

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experience I've had with them is that

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they are really hard working obviously

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saying that maybe not everyone is but

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it's probably like a common sort of you

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know trait in them that they have and

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what's this about family you said about

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family tradition you said that your

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friend sends sends money over back to

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her family does yeah is that you think

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that's a typical thing family from what

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she was saying you know she really looks

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out for her family they come over they

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bring the children um and then whenever

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they go home she sends them back with

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stuff and she's always looking out for a

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family all the time isn't she yes has

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that come out of the hardship out of the

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Communist era uh out out of an era which

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was so um depressing that they've come

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out and they've had to really work hard

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to develop their own State personality

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I've worked with somebody who was from

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Poland okay um who was one of our

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Nursery nurses oh yeah okay very lovely

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lady yeah made very good very good at

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cooking I know a bit about the food oh

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yeah yeah so like quite the stews aren't

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they like meat stews uh

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so were you brought up with any polish

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Traditions or all of them really yes my

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first language was polish I only learned

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English when I went to school we've

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never been to never been there no

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um no I don't know an awful lot about

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their culture I know there's some

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Festival where they all wear beautiful

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flowers in their hair but I don't even

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know what festival

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is Cash lives on the North Coast and

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she's always saying how pretty it is

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along there coal and how about Poland

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itself have you ever been I've never

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been no but I would I would quite like

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to go to crack out it justes look lovely

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there I've seen some really nice uh

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pictures imagery and again I know a few

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people who have gone there and they've

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said such positive things they said

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every all the people are really lovely

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there really nice culture lovely

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architecture and buildings so yeah it's

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definitely somewhere on the list I go

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cycling on the Downs a lot and there are

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memorials to polish um pilots who lost

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their lives and yes and uh they were the

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Forgotten Heroes

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because everybody forgot about them

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after the war finished that was it

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thanks very much off you go thanks for

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watching this week's episode let us know

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and watch easy polish's video about

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Brits and as always we'll see you next

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time sah

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