Where's the Polish clipart?

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Mar 28, 11, 16:16 #1

I asked this question here two years ago and struck out. I reckoned by now the void would have been filled, but NO...
Looking for Polish Easter clipart, all I could find were some very un-Polish bunnies and un-Polish colourerd eggs...
Why were there no pisanki from different regions of Poland, no baranek wielknocny in various styles, no palmy wileńskie, no śmigus-dyngus, no blessing of Easter baskets, no święconka Easter table, no plate of blessed egg wedges, no nothing?
same with Christmas -- no opłatek, no pasterka, no kolędnicy, no św. Mikołaj (only Santa Creep)...
And it's not just holidays... Try to find a silhouette of Warsaw's King Zygmunt Monument or Wawel Castle, a góral or lajkonik, a Tatra style chalwt, a Duchy of Warsaw candelabra chalet....
Now type Irish, Jewish or Swedish clipart in google (I purposely omitted France, Germany and Italy and stuck to the postage-stamp-sized mini-countries)....??!!

FlaglessPoleThreads: 7 Posts: 1,394 Joined: Aug 19, 10 ♂	Mar 28, 11, 17:04 #2
Polonius3: Now type Irish, Jewish or Swedish clipart in google (I purposely omitted France, Germany and Italy and stuck to the postage-stamp-sized mini-countries)....??!! ...and Sweden being larger than Poland by roughly 50% probably degrades Poland from postage-stamp-sized mini-country category to no no clipart category, quite simple really.

Des EssientesThreads: 11 Posts: 2,318 Joined: Feb 6, 10 ♂ [Suspended]	Mar 28, 11, 17:40 #3
FlaglessPole: Sweden being larger than Poland by roughly 50% probably degrades Poland from postage-stamp-sized mini-country category to no no clipart category, quite simple really. Sweden's landmass is larger, yet Poland has 4 times as many people as Sweden, but lack of "clipart" is hardly something to bemoan. If Poland lacks some superfluous internet effluvia so be it.

Monia	Mar 28, 11, 17:48 #4
FlaglessPole: roughly 50% you have to learn counting , dear

FlaglessPoleThreads: 7 Posts: 1,394 Joined: Aug 19, 10 ♂	Mar 28, 11, 18:19 #5
Monia: you have to learn counting , dear Do I now? Perhaps, anyways dear Monia my evidently over-simplified construct of a sentence meant that Poland (312,683 km2) in order to reach the same size area-wise as Sweden (449,964 km2), would have to grow by approx. 50% of its territory.

Monia	Mar 28, 11, 20:26 #6
FlaglessPole: would have to grow by approx. 50% of its territory. I think that Poland constitutes 70 % of Swedish territory , but it doesnt matter , sorry that I have made you upset I didn`t mean to .

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Mar 28, 11, 21:53 #7

Admittedly clipart is yet another example cheap and tacky popcultrue (or poopculture). But sometimes such low-brow decorations are needed as when a Polonian organisation is holding a Polish Easter pageant or banquet and would like to embellish its printed invitations, posters and information leaflets with something seasonally and ethnically appropriate. It's one way to promote Polishness. Shamrocks, harps, clay pipes, leprechauns and assorted St Paddy's day rigamarole are hardly high culture, but they're there for those who want them.

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Mar 28, 11, 22:38 #8

Polonius3:

But sometimes such low-brow decorations are needed as when a Polonian organisation is holding a Polish Easter pageant or banquet and would like to embellish its printed invitations, posters and information leaflets with something seasonally and ethnically appropriate.

Then the answer is simple - they should make it.

Of course, that involves effort for little reward, something that the Polacks aren't familiar with.

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