Open AccessPortrait of Poles and Lithuanians through Students’ Eyes
Author(s) -
Olena Romanenko
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zoon politikon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2543-408X
pISSN - 2082-7806
DOI - 10.4467/2543408xzop.20.010.13224
Subject(s) - lithuanian , portrait , homeland , sociology , psychology , political science , history , law , philosophy , art history , linguistics , politics
The article provides a brief historical background of Polish-Lithuanian stereotypes and provides the results of sociological research, which was carried out at the Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. The main tasks of the article are to examine Polish and Lithuanian characters, their mutual relations and relations to other people, their attitudes to material goods and to their homeland. The author tried to define "How Lithuanians refer to themselves and to Poles". The results of the research are divided into two parts. The first describes Lithuanian autostereotypes and stereotypes about Lithuanians. The second part provides data about actual Lithuanian stereotypes about Poles. As a result of the research, we confirmed most of the "classical stereotypes" about the two nations, but also found the new ones.