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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
for poles in chicago, that's been my experience.
after a couple generations, they're just regular old white people for the most part, though some can still get weirdly proud of their polish heritage (kinda like some "irish" folks).
what is a bit different, is that chicago still does get some immigration from poland (a drop in the bucket compared to the old days, but still there) to keep things in the polish community a tiny bit "fresher" than say for the italians or greeks, whose immigrant wells have gone dry.
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Looks like we cross-posted.
Yeah, Italian and Greek immigration pretty much completely dried up 40 or 50 years ago, so most of the immigrants are senior citizens at this point. Their cultural distinctiveness depends less on immigration as the case of Eastern Europeans I think. Irish and Poles may be a good comparison. Proud of their heritage, yes, but you only know about that heritage because they tell you.