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Polish family roots in Britain

parents are from Poland oh really yeah okay so they came from Poland during the war right when they were children young adults so we speak very highly of them don't we CA we do...

Course: Britain and other culturesSection: British views on Polish cultureSubtitles: en

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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

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