Knowing our community session

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Knowing our community session
Part 1 The Poles
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What we will cover
Poland in Europe Geography and
climate History and culture Immigration to
the UK Poles in Banbury Community
links Comments and feedback
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Poland in Europe

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Geography and climate

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History

• Poland as a country
• Wars
• Poland divided
• Back on political scene
• World War II
• Russian influences
• European life

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Culture and faith

• Tolerance and diversity
• Catholic church
• Music
• Sport

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Famous Poles

• John Paul the II
• Lech Walesa
• Nicolaus Coprenicus
• Michael Marks
• Marie Curie
• Frederik Chopin
• Józef Korzeniowski (Joseph Conrad)
• Roman Polanski

• Pope
• Former President
• Astronomer
• Founder of Marks and Spencer
• Chemist
• Composer
• Writer
• Movie director

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Two Stream of Polish immigration to UK

• World War II
• 01.05.2004 accession to European Union

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Statistics

• Statistics show four out of ten young Poles live
  in stress.
• Where do the rest live?
• In London

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Poles in Banbury

• Numbers
• Why Banbury?
• Are they intend to stay?
• What kind of problems do they experience?
• How and where do they socialize?

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Tough questions

• Why we should support them (benefits etc.)?
• Is immigration useful?

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Community links

• Polish Association in Banbury
• Polish Saturday School

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Do you like football?

• Manchester City
• Arsenal
• Everton
• Manchester United
• Bolton Wanderers
• Arsenal
• West Brom
• Celtic

• Adrian Cieslewicz
• Lukas Fabianski
• Lukas Jutkiewicz
• Tomasz Kuszczak
• Euzebiusz Smolarek
• Wojciech Szczesny
• Bartosz Slusarski
• Artur Boruc

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Food

• Bigos
• Mushroom picking
• Blueberries
• Swan eaters?

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Thank You