In the US there used to be Polish jokes... what nationalities do other countries joke about?

I really should save this for an article in PMLA, but only Americans ever told Polish jokes and the reason why is interesting. (No country near Poland tells Polish jokes. No other English-speaking country tells or understands why Americans tell Polish jokes.

Canadians tell Ukrainian jokes.) Wave upon wave of immigrants entered the United States. It wasn't expected that black slaves or Chinese workers should learn English easily and well, but it was expected that all white people should learn it at about the same speed, and at first they did, because all waves of white immigrants spoke languages that were closely related to English. In any of those languages, a fifth to a third of the words in the Lord's Prayer are recognizeable, for example.

Then came the Poles. Polish is a Slavic language and Slavic languages are are so different that in the Lord's Prayer (for example) the only word that looks remotely similar is "Amin" for "Amen." So it took the Poles, "Polacks" in their own ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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