Thank you James! I've met a few Americans with Polish ancestry and they always seemed quite proud of it, which I admit, I found bizarre at the time. Most Poles in Western Europe, even second-generation immigrants usually try to fit in and even conceal their identity by changing surnames. But, as you wrote, I imagine this wasn't the reality for those who emmigrated to the US decades ago and sadly faced discrimination at the time.

In Europe, one of the biggest waves of immigration from East to the West happened after some of us were lucky enough to join the EU. And that's very recent history. After Poland joined, almost a million of us went to the UK, and hundreds of thousands more to other Western countries. I hope our presence here eventually becomes a bit more normalised, like it is in the US today.