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I guess it depends wildly on who you mean by "elite", but I don't find this accurate at all. The way I see it, the broad left considers us a less bad version of Hungary for failing to bend the knee on various progressive causes. the right, honestly, hard to say, maybe the do see us as rubes, but I don't think it's as calculated as you present it, we're merely a weak, still unestablished player for them.
Guess I am imagining it then, when every single goddamn time, multiple times a week, when something bad happens, somebody from my friends or family is compelled to chime in saying that what occurred is so "typically Polish". When I hear people wishing that our country wouldn't exist, that the Germans should just annex us and bring civilization here. Etc. etc. The complex of Z A G R A N I C O may be less pronounced than it was 20 years ago, but it's alive and kicking.
Something more exclusive, definitely. For broad left/right, I don't really disagree with your view.
I'm surprised you find it so prevalent, I don't really encounter people that seriously hold (meaning, would make and stand by such a statement on pushback) this mindset irl, rarely someone that would say it without it being a joke.
Sorting, I suppose? My groups skew male, too.
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