polish national pride
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POLISH NATIONAL PRIDE
What are the biggest Polish
National Proud?
Here are the results of a survey
amoung our students…
„Heroism of Polish in the past”
Under partitions
– 1772-1918
During the First World War
… the Second
World War …
And during communism time
„Freedom”
„Freedom of movement”
„… UE and NATO membership …”
„Nobel Prize for Polish:Maria Skłodowska-Curie – Nobel Prize for Science,Władysław Reymont - Nobel Prize for Literature Henryk Sienkiewicz - Nobel Prize for Literature
Lech Wałęsa – Nobel Prize for Peace Czesław Miłosz - Nobel Prize for Literature
Wisława Szymborska - Nobel Prize for Literature”.
„The Pope –John Paul II”
„Kopernik, Chopin, Mickiewicz and Polański...
Adam Mickiewicz Fryderyk Chopin
Kapuściński i Sapkowski”.
Andrzej Sapkowski
Roman Polański
„…world-famous cryptographers
Marian Rejewski
…and airmen from the
battle of England”
Enigma
„philosophers, like Kołakowski – a Polish-born Oxford philosopher”
„Olympic gold medalists”
Krzysztof Hołowczyc, Paris-Dackar
Justyna Kowalczyk
Tomasz Majewski
• our sportsmen, especially disabled
ones
• our students, who win ICT competitions
in the USA
• our lower secondary students and
teachers (!) – who are among the best
ones in Europe according to the last
PISA Exam results
(Reading and Maths)
„World famous musicians and composers- e.g. Górecki,
Penderecki …
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
and singers e.g. Beczała, Dudziak”
Piotr Beczała, tenor
Urszula Dudziak
„Polish products:Buses
„Solaris”
Trams and trains „Pesa” produced in Bydgoszcz
Windows
Furniture Food
Computer games
According to the CBOS survey
(2008)Polish are proud when they hear
about:
• Successes of Polish sportsmen and
sportswomen• John Paul II • When we are abroad • National culture,
tradition and art • Polish history• Successes, and
achievements of Poland and Polish in the country and abroad
• National Days
• Polish international activities
• Good opinion about Poland and Polish
• Education and condition of Polish
science
• Anthem and national colours
• Their hardworking, and working Poles
abroad
• When they contact with foreigners
• When they are employed
• Polish economy and economic
stabilization
• Development of the country
• Charitable activities (WOŚP, Caritas)
• Soldiers on foreign missions
• The beauty of the country, nature, historical
monuments
• In general, when something good happens
• Celebrities, national heroes
• The overthrow of communism
• "Solidarity„
• EU membership
Thank you