German Neighbours from Across the River – Insiders? Strangers? Others?
The form of transborder interactions depends inter alia on trust and the convergence of values among neighbouring societies. In addition, cooperation is fostered by the similarity of language and a long history of cross-border contacts and collaboration. The Polish-German borderland emerged as a con...
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| author | Kamilla Dolińska Natalia Niedźwiecka-Iwańczak |
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| description | The form of transborder interactions depends inter alia on trust and the convergence of values among neighbouring societies. In addition, cooperation is fostered by the similarity of language and a long history of cross-border contacts and collaboration. The Polish-German borderland emerged as a consequence of border treaties after World War II, and so is an example of a new neighbourhood, because both sides of the border are inhabited by people who settled there after 1945. There is a significant cultural distance between Poles and Germans. In this article we deal with the question of the perception of Germans by Poles – the attributes that are ascribed to them by the inhabitants of Zgorzelec, Gubin and Słubice. Are the (spatially) closest neighbours still divided by mental barriers? Are Germans judged by stereotypes? Or maybe, as a consequence of the widely undertaken transborder practices, these barriers have been done away with or their importance is diminishing, and with them the distance between Poles and Germans in twin towns? |
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| spelling | doaj.art-58462d3fbf8c405584f3ae37c31007c32022-12-21T19:28:42ZcesMasaryk University, Faculty of Social StudiesSociální studia1214-813X1803-61042017-12-011418293German Neighbours from Across the River – Insiders? Strangers? Others?Kamilla Dolińska0Natalia Niedźwiecka-Iwańczak1University of WrocławUniversity of WrocławThe form of transborder interactions depends inter alia on trust and the convergence of values among neighbouring societies. In addition, cooperation is fostered by the similarity of language and a long history of cross-border contacts and collaboration. The Polish-German borderland emerged as a consequence of border treaties after World War II, and so is an example of a new neighbourhood, because both sides of the border are inhabited by people who settled there after 1945. There is a significant cultural distance between Poles and Germans. In this article we deal with the question of the perception of Germans by Poles – the attributes that are ascribed to them by the inhabitants of Zgorzelec, Gubin and Słubice. Are the (spatially) closest neighbours still divided by mental barriers? Are Germans judged by stereotypes? Or maybe, as a consequence of the widely undertaken transborder practices, these barriers have been done away with or their importance is diminishing, and with them the distance between Poles and Germans in twin towns?https://journals.muni.cz/socialni_studia/article/view/8706stranger/otherdivided townsZgorzelecGubinSłubicePolish-German borderlandneighbours |
| spellingShingle | Kamilla Dolińska Natalia Niedźwiecka-Iwańczak German Neighbours from Across the River – Insiders? Strangers? Others? Sociální studia stranger/other divided towns Zgorzelec Gubin Słubice Polish-German borderland neighbours |
| title | German Neighbours from Across the River – Insiders? Strangers? Others? |
| title_full | German Neighbours from Across the River – Insiders? Strangers? Others? |
| title_fullStr | German Neighbours from Across the River – Insiders? Strangers? Others? |
| title_full_unstemmed | German Neighbours from Across the River – Insiders? Strangers? Others? |
| title_short | German Neighbours from Across the River – Insiders? Strangers? Others? |
| title_sort | german neighbours from across the river insiders strangers others |
| topic | stranger/other divided towns Zgorzelec Gubin Słubice Polish-German borderland neighbours |
| url | https://journals.muni.cz/socialni_studia/article/view/8706 |
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