The Poles divide with the other Slavic their depths in the feelings. A Polish electronic magazine described the Polish heart, expressed so well by the music of Chopin, with the image of the immense territory where the large plain of Central Europe comes to die. They are of melancholic nature, soft, sentimental, romantic. But they are also impulsive and become aware of the consequences of their acts only afterwards, like describes the proverb: "make damage, the Pole grow wise".

French and Poles are distinguished clearly in the attitude against the misfortune. In France, the people complaining on their own misfortunes or frustrations are looked of a suspect eye. The French are large grousers, but their complaints must as often as possible relate to general situations (the weather, the policy, certain categories of populations), and not the identified people and even less themself. On the contrary, "answer mechanically" to the question preferred by the French "ça va? "(how do you do?) is disconcerting for a Pole. All Polish education is based on the concept of having suffering, which makes the Poles pessimistic and fatalistic. Under these conditions, expressing openly its happiness and its blooming is not well seen.

The principal national heroes summarize great qualities which the Poles venerate. It is about valiancy of Kosciuszko, Pilsudski or Walesa, the knowledge of Kopernik, Sklodowska-Curie, the gift of oneself of the father Popieluszko and the poetic sensitivity of Mickiewicz, Herbert and Milosz.

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