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The Polish culture is dynamic. There is the traditional pre 1989 Polish culture that continues today and a post 1989 Polish culture.

In the MasterPage we cover culture in several ways. First there is a category that you find in the navigation bar on the left that specifically covers culture. And that tends to discuss the pre 1989 culture that is of interest to most people who visit this site doing research about Poland.

But the culture is changing. Young Polish people are leaving Poland in droves to work in the West. Many of them are not coming back. But those who do bring back to Poland foreign ways and ideas to one degree or another.

Additionally, with the demise of communism, the young people of Poland have taken to the ways of the young people in Europe. They have created a new metropolitan Polish culture that is in many ways at odds with the ways of their brethren in the countryside.

The result is that in Poland you have one culture dominating in the cities and another culture dominating in the countryside. And in both cases the culture division is generally genearationally defined.

The emigration of young Polish people to the West has left a labor shortage in Poland. That shortage is being filled by workers from the East. As their population grows in the country, their influence on Poland and its culture grows.

In many cases you can get a sense of how the culture is changing and how it is affected by going to our News and Views section, Outlook, that has a large number of pieces that give you a feel for the evolution of Poland's society.