Hallo Lettien, ich habe mich gefragt, wie genau diese Karte besonders für diejenigen ist, die in Südost-Lettland leben, wo die Karte das polnische Volk konzentriert.
https://i.redd.it/qwkjtw39zzye1.png
Von LucianFromWilno
Hallo Lettien, ich habe mich gefragt, wie genau diese Karte besonders für diejenigen ist, die in Südost-Lettland leben, wo die Karte das polnische Volk konzentriert.
https://i.redd.it/qwkjtw39zzye1.png
Von LucianFromWilno
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No idea, I’ve not lived in south east and I don’t know much about poles in Latvia apart that they exist.
What is a Latvian born Pole?
If the definition is „these people have some sort of polish ancestry“ then the map seems plausible. I have met several of these people and I live in one of the areas that is 3-5%.
I’m not from that area (I think that very few people on reddit would be from there, because its the poorest region – low education, low life expectancy, etc.), but what I have heard from the news it is true. It’s not a diaspora, just by blood, because historically that region was Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. Nowadays, they do in a sense identify as Polish heritage something and I think they also have a bit of influence on elections in Daugavpils, but Russian speakers are much more present.
My grandfather was from around Krāslava side (somewhat Daugavpils) ane he knew Polish. But do not know of that was because of birthplace or something in life gave opportunity to learn Polish.
In town called Ilukste there are Pols. Not sure if they still have that but when I was growing up Catholic church had two separate services one in Latvian and one in Polish.