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|rels= Predominantly [[Roman Catholicism in Poland|Roman Catholicism]] with [[Polish Orthodox Church|Orthodox]], [[Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland|Protestant]], [[Atheism|Atheist]] and [[History of the Jews in Poland|Jewish]] minorities.
|rels= Predominantly [[Roman Catholicism in Poland|Roman Catholicism]] with [[Polish Orthodox Church|Orthodox]], [[Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland|Protestant]], [[Atheism|Atheist]] and [[History of the Jews in Poland|Jewish]] minorities.
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[[File:R1A map.jpg|300px|thumb|map of R1A which is the y-dna haplogroup that the majority of Poles have]]


The '''Polish people''', or '''Poles''' ({{lang-pl|Polacy}} {{IPAr|pl|p|o|'|l|a|c|y}}, singular ''Polak''), are a [[West Slavs|Western Slavic]] [[ethnic group]] of [[Central Europe]], living predominantly in [[Poland]]. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent. Their religion is predominantly [[Roman Catholic]]. The Poles can also be referred to as the inhabitants of the [[Republic of Poland]] and Polish emigrants irrespective of their ethnicity. A wide-ranging [[Polonia|Polish diaspora]] exists throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas and Australia.
The '''Polish people''', or '''Poles''' ({{lang-pl|Polacy}} {{IPAr|pl|p|o|'|l|a|c|y}}, singular ''Polak''), are a [[West Slavs|Western Slavic]] [[ethnic group]] of [[Central Europe]], living predominantly in [[Poland]]. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent. Their religion is predominantly [[Roman Catholic]]. The Poles can also be referred to as the inhabitants of the [[Republic of Poland]] and Polish emigrants irrespective of their ethnicity. A wide-ranging [[Polonia|Polish diaspora]] exists throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas and Australia.
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* [[Vistulans]] ([[Lesser Poland]])
* [[Vistulans]] ([[Lesser Poland]])
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However many Poles have Asian admixture, while haplogroups such as Q or C3 found in Polish population. This admixture came possibly from tribes such as: Huns, Avars, Tatars, Kalmyks, Mongols and others.


==European Union==
==European Union==
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* [http://www.polishheritage.co.nz/TRUST/TRUST.HTM Polish Heritage Trust of New Zealand]
* [http://www.polishheritage.co.nz/TRUST/TRUST.HTM Polish Heritage Trust of New Zealand]
* [http://www.polishplanet.com/ Polacy w Wielkiej Brytanii, Polish Community in the UK]
* [http://www.polishplanet.com/ Polacy w Wielkiej Brytanii, Polish Community in the UK]
* [http://www.polishforums.com/poland-genealogy-6/mongolian-golden-horde-poles-have-mongolian-ancestry-25558/ Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry]
* [http://dienekes.50webs.com/blog/archives/000376.html Dienekes' Anthropology Blog: Mongolian admixture in Poland]
* [http://www.ysearch.org/ Ysearch - the number one Y-DNA public database, see also haplogroup C3 and Q from category Eastern Europe]


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Revision as of 16:08, 23 July 2009

For other uses, see Pole.
Polish people
(Polacy)
File:Image of Poles.png Some well-known Poles and people with Polish roots.
Top: Marie Curie, Pope John Paul II, Copernicus, Wałęsa, Conrad.
Middle: Gretzky, Jan III Sobieski, Kościuszko, Rejewski, Wajda, Kolbe.
Bottom: Piłsudski, Lem, Brzeziński, Warner, Wielicki, Wolszczan.
Total population
60 million (est.)[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Poland38,860,000
[2]
 United States10,024,711[3]
 Brazil1.5 to 3,000,000[4]
 Israel1,250,000[5]
 Germany1,055,700[6]
 Canada984,565[7]
 France900,000 - 1,050,000[8]
 United Kingdom(est.) 500,000[1][9]
 Argentina500,000[10]
 Belarus400,000[11]
 Italy156,000[12]
 Lithuania250,000[13]
 Russia173,000[14]
 Australia150,900[15]
 Ukraine144,130[16]
 Norway120,000[17]
 Spain78,305[18]
 Ireland63,090[19]
 Latvia57,000[20]
 Czech Republic52,000[21]
 Mexico50,000[22]
 Kazakhstan47,293[23]
 Netherlands39,500[24]
 Austria21,000[25]
 Iceland10,540[26]
 Turkey6,000[27]
Template:Country data World Rest of World1,145,000 (est.)
[28]
Languages
Polish
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism with Orthodox, Protestant, Atheist and Jewish minorities.
map of R1A which is the y-dna haplogroup that the majority of Poles have

The Polish people, or Poles (Template:Lang-pl Template:IPAr, singular Polak), are a Western Slavic ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent. Their religion is predominantly Roman Catholic. The Poles can also be referred to as the inhabitants of the Republic of Poland and Polish emigrants irrespective of their ethnicity. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora exists throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas and Australia.

There is no commonly accepted definition of the Polish people. According to the preamble of the Constitution of Poland, the Polish Nation consists of all citizens of Poland. However, like in most European countries, many people limit the group to native speakers of the Polish language, people that share certain traditions, or people who share a common ethnic background originating from Poland. As to its origins, the name of the nation comes from a western Slavic ethnic group of Polans primarily associated with Poland and the Polish language. Poles belong to the Lechitic subgroup of these ethnic people. The Polans of Giecz, Gniezno, and Poznań were one of the most influential tribes of Greater Poland and managed to unite many other West Slavic tribes in the area under the rule of what became the Piast dynasty, thus giving birth to a new state. The Polish word for a Polish person is Polak (male) and Polka (female), however, when this common noun is used verbatim in the English language (usually spelled as Polack) it is always offensive.[29]

Statistics

Polish people are the sixth largest national group in Europe.[30] Estimates vary depending on source, though available data suggests a total number around 60 million people worldwide (with approx. 21 million living outside of Poland).[1] There are almost 39 million Poles in Poland alone. There are also Polish minorities in the surrounding countries including Germany, the autochthonous minorities in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus. There are some smaller autochthonous minorities in nearby countries such as Moldova and Latvia. There is also a Polish minority in Russia which included autochthonous Poles as well as those forcibly deported during and after World War II; the total number of Poles in what was the former Soviet Union is estimated at up to 3 million.[31]

The term "Polonia" is usually used in Poland to refer to people of Polish origin who live outside Polish borders, officially estimated at around 10-12 to 20 million. There is a notable Polish diaspora in the United States (Polish-Americans), Canada, (Polish-Canadians) and Brazil (Polish-Brazilians). France has a historic relationship with Poland and has a relatively large Polish-descendant population. Poles lived in France since the 1700s. In the early 20th century, over a million Polish people settled in France, mostly during world wars, among them Polish émigrés fleeing either Nazi occupation and later Soviet rule.

In the United States a significant number of Polish immigrants settled in Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Orlando, Pittsburgh and Buffalo. The majority of Polish Canadians arrived to Canada since World War II, the number of Polish immigrants increased between 1945 – 1970, and again since the fall of Communism in 1989. In Brazil the majority of Polish immigrants settled in Paraná State, the city of Curitiba has the second largest Polish diaspora in the world (after Chicago) and Polish music, dishes and culture are quite common in the region. In recent years, since joining the European Union, many Polish people have emigrated to countries such as Ireland; where an estimated 200,000 Polish people have entered the labour market. It is estimated that over half a million Polish people have immigrated to the United Kingdom. The Polish community in Norway has increased dramatically and has grown to a total number of 120,000, making Polish people the largest immigrant group in Norway.

Polish tribes

The following is the list of Polish tribes - tribes which constituted the lands of Poland in the early Middle Ages, at the beginning of the Polish state. Some of them have remained a separate ethnicity while others have been assimilated into the culture of Poland.

However many Poles have Asian admixture, while haplogroups such as Q or C3 found in Polish population. This admixture came possibly from tribes such as: Huns, Avars, Tatars, Kalmyks, Mongols and others.

European Union

(for ethnic Poles living abroad see Polonia, for those living and working in the United Kingdom see Polish British)

A survey carried out by the CBOS public opinion institute, between March 30 and April 2, 2007, found that 86% of Poles felt that EU membership has had a positive effect, with only 5% of the respondents speaking against it, down from 22 percent in 2004. The institute also found that 55% of those surveyed prefer the EU to remain a union of sovereign states, while 22% supported the idea of a "United States of Europe".[32] Principal areas of Polish life that have been improved by EU membership, are agriculture (according to 75% of those surveyed), the environment (61%), productivity (57%) and unemployment (56%).[33]

Among the ten new EU members, of which eight are Central or Eastern European, Poles are the most mobile, with considerable numbers of Polish migrants found in almost all ‘old’ EU countries, filling numerous vacancies on the European labour market, especially in areas where indigenous workforce is insufficient. According to Franck Duvell of Oxford, some countries, like Germany and Austria, missed on that opportunity by discriminating against mobile Europeans, granting them freedom of movement without freedom of employment, which resulted in the increase of numbers of illegal migrant workers there. “In fact, the EU accession process, and namely the Polish experience could possibly serve as a paradigm for easing some of Europe’s migration dilemma,” Duvell suggested.[34]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Świat Polonii, witryna Stowarzyszenia Wspólnota Polska: „Polacy za granicą” (Polish people abroad as per summary by Świat Polonii, internet portal of the Polish Association Wspólnota Polska)
  2. ^ Excel spreadsheet from Polish Central Statistical Office
  3. ^ 2006 Community Survey
  4. ^ Polish Society in Brazil
  5. ^ Passport thanks to a Polish grandmother, Warsaw at Y-net.co.il, March 16, 2007
  6. ^ Template:De icon Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund - Ergebnisse des Mikrozensus 2005 Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland (German text about migrants in Germany) Template:PDFlink.
  7. ^ List of Canadians by ethnicity
  8. ^ Template:Pl icon Michael Pieslak, Polonia na swiecie w liczbach → Francja See also: Polonia in France
  9. ^ Template:En icon Poles in the UK, Polish Express, source: government statistics.
    ^ Template:Pl icon According to Tomasz Ziemba from Polish Express online 1,020,000 Polish visitors in the UK logged into Polish chatroom Gadu–Gadu in January: Policzyło nas Gadu–Gadu
    ^ Template:Pl icon Tomasz Wybranowski, Korespondencja, Tygodnik Przegląd, 22.08.2007, onet.pl
    ^ Template:En icon Steve Doughty, Daily Mail, Office for National Statistics recorded the number of Poles who have travelled to the UK in 2006 at over 2,000,000. The number of those who stay exceeds 250,000.
  10. ^ Poles in Argentina
  11. ^ Poles in Belarus
  12. ^ Poles in Italy (click on Tutti i Paesi - Tavola)
  13. ^ Poles in Lithuania
  14. ^ Poles in Russia
  15. ^ Template:PDFlink
  16. ^ Poles in Ukraine
  17. ^ Aftenposten.no: - 120.000 polakker i Norge (Innenriks)
  18. ^ http://www.ine.es/prensa/np503.pdf
  19. ^ Poles in Ireland
  20. ^ CIA World Factbook
  21. ^ Template:PDFlink
  22. ^ Poles in Mexico
  23. ^ Template:PDFlink
  24. ^ Template:PDFlink
  25. ^ Template:PDFlink
  26. ^ Mannfjöldi eftir fæðingarlandi 1981-2008: Pólland
  27. ^ www.polonezkoy.com
  28. ^ Poles around the World (>polonia > statystyka)
  29. ^ polack - Definitions from Dictionary.com
  30. ^ NationMaster.com 2003-2008. People Statistics: Population (most recent) by country Accessed 2008-01-25
  31. ^ Gil Loescher, Beyond Charity: International Cooperation and the Global Refugee Crisis, published by Oxford University Press US, 1993, 1996. ISBN 0195102940. Accessed 12-12-2007.
  32. ^ EU Business, 21 June 2007, Poles more pro-EU than ever: survey Accessed 12-06-2007.
  33. ^ EU Business, 02 May 2007, Three years after entering the EU, 86% of Poles are satisfied
  34. ^ Franck Duvell, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford, Template:PDFlink, accessed 12-06-2007.
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