In my opinion the answer for the question - why are Polish so sensitive ? - lies mainly in the fact that we have got enough of polish jokes so far or being called " dumb Pollack " for decades in the country called The United States of America, where there are dozens of different nationalities , but surprisingly there are no french, german , irish jokes on that scale .
Talking polish jokes became somehow outdated , after John Paul II has been elected . Thats why, when they reapear somwhere in a form of humiliation ħt being of Polish ancestry revives old wounds .
Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.), once said In 1974, year before the Apple beginning days, these types of jokes ( polish jokes) were attacked on the basis that they gave the ethnic groups bad stereotypes, i.e. that we'd come to expect Polish people to be dumb people.
I'm of Polish ancestry. A number of years back I addressed the graduation of the Engineering school of the University of Colorado. I told the following joke: What do you call 4 Mexicans in quicksand? Quatro cinco. It obviously doesn't say anything bad about Mexicans but I was informed by the person whose job it was to look after minority concerns in that college that I offended 400 people.
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