This can set into motion a discussion about Polishness as part of the Polish elite’s plans to reshape popular perceptions thereof with a view towards justifying mass Ukrainian migration into their country in furtherance of geopolitical and economic goals.
Ethnicity problems are easier to overcome if langugae is not a problem. After WW2, Japan had left behind thousands of orphans and some stragglers who did not catch the boats in mainland China. Circa 1975, these orphans, now adults, were voluntarily sent back to Japan. A few chose to stay, but most of them went back to Japan. Once back, they encountered lots of problems, starting from language. Japanese language has a lot of emphasis on intonation, but these returned Japanese spoke minimal or no Japanese. Only a small number of them, and their children, were ablle to be integrated into Japanese society smoothly. For many, it would be a life long agony. Immigration has to be tightly controlled all the time to maintain sufficient homogeneity. Otherwise, salads in a bowl would quickly become a mud pit.
uhm, not really. The Japanese politicians are certainly worried about it. My undestanding is that Japanese society is highly stratefied, especially at the top. No politician wants to see the number of their slaves dropping. I hold the opposite view: Japan has no future unless Japan's population is cut in half, ditto For China and India. Reasons are: resource and job scarcity. Hospitable land area is a major concern in Japan, in addition to lack of natural resources. For Japan, the limit of growth had been reached, and the only way forward is to sustain an enjoyable living. I would even claim Japanese elites had reached similar conclusion as early as early 1920s, if not earlier. Japan's expansion onto the Asian continent is not ust traditional empirialim looting for resource. It had a lot to do with the "living space".
"...it’s all about catalyzing the process of reshaping Poles’ perception of Polishness..."
In the mass Polish mind, I should think, in simple terms, this will be perceived as (something like) 'Either we take Ukrainians in, so we can count them as refugees or immigrants (or 'migrants' or whatever their nom de jour in Brussels is) or we'll have to take in even more civilisationally dissimilar ones, like they already have and continue to do in other EU countries,'. I wonder what Tusk and his buddies in Brussels, banks and Soros, et alia, think of this; are they likely to say, 'OK, you can count the Ukrainians like other migrants, because it's bad for Russia,' or will they object to reduced quotas on this basis? If I were Polish, that would be the most important question to me.
Presumably, the Ukrainians, as ever, are hoping to be considered 'Exceptional'?
I should like to add a caveat: by 'the Ukrainians' in the last sentence of my previous comment, "Presumably, the Ukrainians, as ever, are hoping to be considered 'Exceptional'?" I wasn't thinking of and didn't mean to imply the vast majority of Ukrainians, like those who participated in democratic elections before the coup of 2014, those whose hearts and minds were clean and clear when the Ukraine might still have elected to make use of the potential it had inherited from the Soviet Union, those I have known and loved personally, those who would be genuinely and justifiably insulted and affronted to be subjected to the implication they might hope to be considered 'Exceptional'.
I meant, of course, that naturally-insignificant, artificially-inflated minority of 'Ukrainians' (for want of a better term) who cling to the power they've been given by the violent US-inspired-and-funded coup of 2014; who have manipulated, coerced, bullied, imprisoned and murdered healthy Ukrainians since the(ir) (US) 'Orange Revolution' (Timoshenko didn't go to prison for no good reason, you know?) to continue their sale of the Ukraine to 'Biden & Black Rock' and others like them.
Putin didn't rid Russia of the scourge of Khodorkovsky & Co., and their foreign associates, and reestablish control over Russian oil and gas production and sales for no good reason, you know?
Whenever fractions of Capital seek to expand due to the search for market and/or natural resources there will be genocide. This is Capitalism at work! Either we address the CAUSES or we will spend our whole lives treating the consequences with symptomatic remedies.
Ethnicity problems are easier to overcome if langugae is not a problem. After WW2, Japan had left behind thousands of orphans and some stragglers who did not catch the boats in mainland China. Circa 1975, these orphans, now adults, were voluntarily sent back to Japan. A few chose to stay, but most of them went back to Japan. Once back, they encountered lots of problems, starting from language. Japanese language has a lot of emphasis on intonation, but these returned Japanese spoke minimal or no Japanese. Only a small number of them, and their children, were ablle to be integrated into Japanese society smoothly. For many, it would be a life long agony. Immigration has to be tightly controlled all the time to maintain sufficient homogeneity. Otherwise, salads in a bowl would quickly become a mud pit.
Japans problem today is a falling birthrate
uhm, not really. The Japanese politicians are certainly worried about it. My undestanding is that Japanese society is highly stratefied, especially at the top. No politician wants to see the number of their slaves dropping. I hold the opposite view: Japan has no future unless Japan's population is cut in half, ditto For China and India. Reasons are: resource and job scarcity. Hospitable land area is a major concern in Japan, in addition to lack of natural resources. For Japan, the limit of growth had been reached, and the only way forward is to sustain an enjoyable living. I would even claim Japanese elites had reached similar conclusion as early as early 1920s, if not earlier. Japan's expansion onto the Asian continent is not ust traditional empirialim looting for resource. It had a lot to do with the "living space".
"...it’s all about catalyzing the process of reshaping Poles’ perception of Polishness..."
In the mass Polish mind, I should think, in simple terms, this will be perceived as (something like) 'Either we take Ukrainians in, so we can count them as refugees or immigrants (or 'migrants' or whatever their nom de jour in Brussels is) or we'll have to take in even more civilisationally dissimilar ones, like they already have and continue to do in other EU countries,'. I wonder what Tusk and his buddies in Brussels, banks and Soros, et alia, think of this; are they likely to say, 'OK, you can count the Ukrainians like other migrants, because it's bad for Russia,' or will they object to reduced quotas on this basis? If I were Polish, that would be the most important question to me.
Presumably, the Ukrainians, as ever, are hoping to be considered 'Exceptional'?
I should like to add a caveat: by 'the Ukrainians' in the last sentence of my previous comment, "Presumably, the Ukrainians, as ever, are hoping to be considered 'Exceptional'?" I wasn't thinking of and didn't mean to imply the vast majority of Ukrainians, like those who participated in democratic elections before the coup of 2014, those whose hearts and minds were clean and clear when the Ukraine might still have elected to make use of the potential it had inherited from the Soviet Union, those I have known and loved personally, those who would be genuinely and justifiably insulted and affronted to be subjected to the implication they might hope to be considered 'Exceptional'.
I meant, of course, that naturally-insignificant, artificially-inflated minority of 'Ukrainians' (for want of a better term) who cling to the power they've been given by the violent US-inspired-and-funded coup of 2014; who have manipulated, coerced, bullied, imprisoned and murdered healthy Ukrainians since the(ir) (US) 'Orange Revolution' (Timoshenko didn't go to prison for no good reason, you know?) to continue their sale of the Ukraine to 'Biden & Black Rock' and others like them.
Putin didn't rid Russia of the scourge of Khodorkovsky & Co., and their foreign associates, and reestablish control over Russian oil and gas production and sales for no good reason, you know?
I know you know; just saying...
Just to be quite clear.
Preparing a new homeland for the government-in-exile after "Ukraine" in its current form falls?
I meant that as a joke, but things are strange these days, who knows?
there is always a genocide going on say, Gaza or Sudan
Whenever fractions of Capital seek to expand due to the search for market and/or natural resources there will be genocide. This is Capitalism at work! Either we address the CAUSES or we will spend our whole lives treating the consequences with symptomatic remedies.