Are Poles mentally more Eastern European or Western European?

I said that there is no eastern European mentality .

Because nowadays western tendencies and ideologies are aiming at turning people into slaves.

we got western mentality according to you but no eastern? hmmm.

Simply there is no "eastern Europe mentality" !
Ah the same goes for" western Europe mentality" - A Spaniard doesn't has the same attitude to life as English !

I think western european and eastern european diffrens between less than southern european and northern europan,but nobody talking about it

Poland is the country where the largest percent of the population was from the nobility (approximately 10-15 percent of the Polish population was nobility 200 years ago) and today approximately 30 percent of all Poles worldwide can trace their ancestry to the nobility (untitled as titled) in the agnatic line (from father to father)

''I am the Count. My land ranges from the trees 150 m over there to the river 50 m yonder, this is my wife the Countess and our dog.... Duke"

with lots of tiny poxy little principalities to lord it over
''I am the Count. My land ranges from the trees 150 m over there to the river 50 m yonder, this is my wife the Countess and our dog.... Duke"

The Szlachta never had hierarchical terms of rank amongst themselves.

the largest percent of the population was from the nobility

This is also, among other factors, a huge contributor for the dominant patriotism among Poles and proud and freedom loving mentality

''I am the Count. My land ranges from the trees 150 m over there to the river 50 m yonder, this is my wife the Countess and our dog.... Duke"

Some Polish aristocratic families

Polish national cuisine shares some similarities with other Central European [1] and Eastern European[2] traditions

Also Poles may be Slavic people but when you take a closer look at the Polish genes (Haplogroup Y-DNA) one realizes that is has a lot of Germanic and Celtic blood (About 35-40 percent).

Polish people are generally speaking a mix of many ethnic groups (Germans, Russians, Ruthenians (Ukrainians, Belarussians), Lithuanians, Jews, Armenians, Dutch, Scottish, French, Italian, Tatar, Vlach etc.) and that has formed todays Poland for the good and the bad

hythorn:
''I am the Count. My land ranges from the trees 150 m over there to the river 50 m yonder, this is my wife the Countess and our dog.... Duke"

The Szlachta never had hierarchical terms of rank amongst themselves. Some magnates did call themselves karmazyni but there was never any official distinction in rank between one nobleman and another. There were no "counts" in Poland. Hythorn you are projecting your own British concepts on to Poland.

Poland have ALWAYS been situated in CENTRAL EUROPE.

he speaks of today's realities Bzi - don't be so defensive

Bzibzioh:Some Polish aristocratic families

Don't confuse they magnat with the common or garden szlachty.

That's why I corrected you. Most szlachta were very far from being Aristocratic families.

Missed "aristocratic families" in my post?

Most szlachta were very far from being Aristocratic families.

So what?Every szlachcic and/or szlachciankahad an opportunity to become an aristocracy

Szlachcic na zagrodzie równy wojewodzie

The Szlachta never had hierarchical terms of rank amongst themselves.

First explain characteristics of eastern and western mentality and then I will answer your question slavia

Probably the most important post in this entire thread..

I know it, but it doesn't really fit with your argument that Poland has more in common with western rather than Eastern Europe.

Peasants everywhere (providing they weren't Eastern European-style serfs, as in PL) had the chance to become aristocrats in Western Europe. Some indeed did.

No they were not the envy of their "Europe" counterparts in Poland.

their fellow Russian or Polish serfs.

Do you think that it is a coincidence that the areas were there was serfdom more recently are today more likely to have an eastern mentality than the areas of Poland where it was practised longer ago?

They(Google) aren't a Western European company, they're American.

The last time I looked at a political map of the world of major Western civilizations