[Carter32396]

I grew up next door to a family of Polish-Irish descent, and I learned all of my jokes from them, of which a whopping number were Polish. I eventually came to realize that in their case, these jokes were merely a safe way of laughing at some of humanity’s stupider habits. I have never in my life (and there are a lot of Polish folks in Chicago) met anyone who told a Polish joke with the intention of insulting Polish people, which is interesting, as I could not say the same of jokes aimed at blacks or other minorities (gays, etc.).

I have seen plenty of times people substitute either their own identity into these types of jokes (many of which are just old, silly, stale jokes), or a different one. So I’m not too sure how the poor Polish people got stuck being the ‘default’ group, but I’ve never seen them as any sort of serious stereotype of Polish people.

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Name : Carter32396, Gender : M, Age : 29, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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