Basically it looks like going east has some kind of geographical logic in
it but as you can guess during the Soviet hegemony most of the jokes where about
Russians (during WWII German occupation we used to make idiots of the
prevailing power using song and joke) and political forces associated with
them. The difference was in the 50ties you could end in the labor camp for that
later it could get you into trouble maybe less grave than that. Working in the
Soviet Union in the eighties I heard Russians enjoying making fun of the distant
tribe called Czukcza settled in the far east reach of the empire by the Bering
Strait. The jokes sounded mostly the same as Russian jokes i
Poland. I remember wondering if the geographic logic still works, what kind of
jokes Czukcza listen to. Ethnic jokes in Poland were used mostly as a
weapon of political fight with the aggressors. The rich collection of the Jewish
jokes in Poland were put together in books written by the Jewish authors and
even being ethnic it was not insulting and quite funny sometimes. So it was
really surprise for me to find Polish jokes here since we never occupied USA so
what could be the reason to fight us with a joke (the concept of making fun of
someone just because he different origin or religion never appeared as funny to
me). When I came here 16 years ago the Polish jokes where quite popular
(sometimes sounded exactly like Russian jokes in Poland). Since the guys who
like to tell them looked usually like in dire need to lift their
self-esteem it did not really bother me. Now I do not hear it anymore so I was
kind of surprised by finding it in BP and even more coming from you Py - I
really enjoy the lecture of your posts and I wait for the book written by
you. In the meantime you can read the "A Question of Honor" by Lynn Olson
and Stanley Cloud so at least you will know what put us into
funny position exercised after WWII.
Witold
Your right.....I
thought about a letter of apology..but then I got to thinking.When I was in
France ;the french used to tell stupid jokes about the Belgium's......nobody
appreciated these jokes but the french ..so Im dying to ask
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