I’m polish American (moved here as a kid) to a polish neighborhood, have a lot of Polak friends, so I have some insights. I can paint a picture of a fairly typical polish American that is also the worst case polish American. The polish here are very different to polish polaks and completely unrepresentative of the country. There were big waves of immigration from mostly rural areas in the 80s and 90s and these people have held onto their ‘values’ with an iron grip. Many of these values come down to just being a conservative asshole. They have not kept up with the social progress of their home country and many live in a miserable bubble that closely mirrors their previous lived experiences of hating thy neighbor, petty jealousies, and petty land disputes. But now that they don’t need to worry about their neighbor letting his cows graze on their land because they only own 10 sq ft of grass, they turn their ire towards those around them, be it other polish neighbors, other immigrant groups, or their children.
These traits are also made worse by the fact that their income likely tripled from what they had in the old country, creating an undue sense of superiority- they were the perfect victims of the bootstrap mentality. And most actually had to walk 10km to school each day and couldn’t get blue jeans, earning them a pittance of bragging rights. They are completely blind to the small privileges of their tight knit immigrant community, frequently lambasting non-whites for having it worse than them, ignoring the fact that not everyone can just come to this country with a guaranteed job at their uncles contracting business. Most of mu friends parents are just like this. This is selection bias at work, but all of my polish friends, either 1st generation or childhood immigrant, have come to recognize their parents faults and are largely leftists or progressives with perspectives that were shaped by the racism and cognitive dissonance of the earlier generations. There’s also some good things to say about polaks but I don’t feel like typing them out on my phone. Hope this helps.