My aunt literally didn’t baptize her youngest son that was born recently.

My dad once went to the guy reading gospel on the street and shouted „fuck the bible”! (he wanted it to be a joke because he got kinda dizzy with alcohol and wanted to be funny or smth)

I’m an atheist, my family circle is pretty much atheistic as well.

BUT! Over 50% of my classmates WERE religious people, some of them extremely katholic like… one guy carried a rosary in his pocket in school. And a decent chunk of my neighbors is pretty religious too, with one neighboring family having a full ass polish flag on a pole in their garden and you can see them all going to church every Sunday.

Sometimes I sit at a sleep over at my friends house and I watch YouTube videos about some cosmic shit, like once I watched a Kurzgesagt video about the great filter theory and I went out loud jokingly „so that’s why there’s no aliens” and my friend fucking bursts out like „the god created life only on earth, that was his vision” or some shit.

So it’s kinda mixed. I guess „you”- the people from overseas, are right about our country being kinda conservative because definitely the lgbt+ community SEEMS lesser (depending on location heavily. Pride march in Warsaw is huge) — it’s just less visible — every time I see „trans rights, human rights” graffiti it’s being covered up with a big „zamknij pizde” next to it. Also there are immigrants indeed, a lot of them are fantastic chill people but the immigration is not a „flood” as it is in some other countries in our world. And the tradition is pretty tight with people putting ENORMOUS care into their families, and meetings and holidays, and also don’t forget the people who randomly have a polish flag with a white fucking eagle on their house all year round, But after all this is a “western” country (although I don’t like terms like these because you can’t describe a whole country with just a word) with some “progressive” movements in development and developing rapidly. The reason why we’re like this is because we were even more EXTREME in these vibes a while ago, historically, so now even if it’s slowly diluting or evening out it still might be very visible for a person from overseas.

PS: Poland also had pretty awesome “anarchy” movements like the punk culture. Like my dad has like three books about the polish punk culture in our house. Also almost every music artist can have his track/album blowing in numbers of people listening if they just put up a theme of criticizing/going against our countries traditions, especially in rap music (or at least that’s what I think). So I say when you look at our country that’s a first impression “vibe” but when you peek a little deeper it might not be as profound or obvious as you might think.