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Different people - different ways
Each time I visit Poland I discover more differences between the way Poles and Brits behave although certain social changes are now widespread across Europe.
For example, young people no longer give up seats to the elderly in buses in either Poland or Britain.
- Poles celebrate name days rather than birthdays. Poles are named after saints at baptism, every day is a saint's day.
- There are various feast days and festivals, for example Women's Day on the 8th of March when men give the women in their life flowers
- Poland is a strongly Roman Catholic country - you will see religious processions through streets on feast days
- On the 2nd of November, the majority of Poles troop off to cemetaries to light candles and commemorate their friends and family who have died
- Even beggars (rarely seen) often display a religious placard - sometimes even whilst kneeling in the street. See honest beggar and amusing moments.
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