There are not many expats living in Poland. It’s not a country that welcomes huddled masses and such. Immigration, comparatively speaking, is virtually nil. Still, there are a few; I even know a handful of them.

When I left, foreigners were all the rage. There was a Polish-speaking German actor who was very popular, playing a character on one of the popular soap operas, M Jak Milosc (“L for Love”). There was also a television talk show with an alternating crew of non-Polish Europeans who lived in Poland. An English fellow and our German friend were standards, and the rest came and went. They sat around, speaking Polish to each other, basically their countries to Poland.

Poles are fascinated, it seems to me, with foreigners. There are so few of them that they’re truly alien. (Couldn’t resist.) When I lived there, most often I heard from Poles I’d just met questions about how I view Poland. Everyone was thrilled to learn what an “outsider” saw.

Here’s an interesting clip — mostly in English — that recently appeared on TV. It deals with, not surprisingly, how foreigners view Poles and Poland.

Via Polandian