{"id":8138,"date":"2017-02-07T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archiwum.wroclife.pl\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2017-02-09T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:37:39","slug":"how-people-in-wroclaw-live-the-view-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archiwum.wroclife.pl\/nasze-miasto\/how-people-in-wroclaw-live-the-view-from-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"How people in Wroclaw live? [The view from abroad]"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s funny to answer a\u00a0question like \u201chow do people live?\u201d through social sciences. Actually, it has to be considered in abstract terms. It is not\u00a0 that\u00a0 everyone in the city behaves the same. But, anyway, as a\u00a0foreigner and a\u00a0student set up in Wroclaw, I\u00a0will do my best as far as the social inputs and cultural observation can go. \u00a0<\/h2>\n
\"Peru\"<\/a>

Location Peru<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u00a0could start by saying that I\u00a0consider insufficient speaking about any aspect of Wroclaw without referring to the Polish context, or even Eastern European, Central or Western European context, if the subject demands it. The following ideas are applicable to Poland as a\u00a0whole and in most cases what I\u00a0feel about Wroclaw in specific is that they are just less remarkable if we compare with other parts of the country. Important personal data: I\u00a0have only been in three cities (Lodz, Wroclaw and Cracow), but I\u00a0find Polish culture, at least in cities, kind of homogenous and this is the general feeling people may have, according to conversations I\u00a0have had the opportunity to get.<\/p>\n

First of all, the Polish schedule is regulated by daylight. This asseveration is almost literal.\u00a0 As the sunlight stays few hours, the journeys become shorter comparing to other parts of the world: the stores close early, the economy goes slower and lifestyle is mostly quiet, a\u00a0little bit like being in the country.\u00a0 As a\u00a0consequence, the perception of time is also different. Day passes faster and this fact has an impact on the intensity of the routine and daily activity.<\/p>\n

What I\u00a0point out about Poland could be one thing that explains a\u00a0certain cultural duality. If as a\u00a0whole, the Polish society shows low level of dynamism and social change, could you imagine how this works in the most traditional regions? In this context, I\u00a0find normal that this springs forth an ocean of differences between all relative to tradition versus modernity.<\/p>\n

In fact, one of the things I\u00a0hear the most about people is how much Varsovian citizens frequently disregard those own compatriots considering them provincial ignorant people. In response, people from Warsaw have got the first prize as the most hated ones in whole Poland. Ironically, the people I\u00a0have met through the three cities I\u2019ve been traveling didn\u2019t have much in common, but the fact of not being ignorants at all.<\/p>\n

Secondly, there is another consequence related to the daylight schedule in Poland that until now I\u00a0had just suggested, talking about the work. A\u00a0lot of people work under the same schedule, starting at 8 or 9 am and finishing around 5 pm, 4 pm, or even 3 pm, with longer breaks between hours. The holidays are plentiful.<\/p>\n

Personally, I\u00a0find this labor organization very healthy and balanced in the broad sense, because maybe unintentionally it is actually a\u00a0solution to the problem of living for work, instead of working to live that almost all the countries around the world have. But there\u2019s one detail in relation with this \u201cpolicy\u201d: if most of the services are opened at the same hours, at the end it becomes very difficult to enjoy the city, or at least do in a\u00a0practical way the mandatory and rutinary we must do apart of study or work (pay bills, go to the bank, buy food\u2026).<\/p>\n

This is the principal disadvantage about staying in a\u00a0not really dynamic place. Things would be different if the concept of work in shifts was spread (morning shift, afternoon shift, in some cases evening or night shift). For instance, even in a\u00a0city like Wroclaw, it is hard to find an opened restaurant if it is not lunch or dinner time, or a\u00a0hairdresser after 4 pm, just like if they were banks. So this reality is also related to the strict and traditional lifestyle spread by the whole country, which is not bad itself at all, but that can frustrate foreigners or young people in general that have been raised in cities with a\u00a0different perception of time and its uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s funny to answer a\u00a0question like \u201chow do people live?\u201d through social sciences. Actually, it has to be considered in abstract terms. It is not\u00a0 that\u00a0 everyone in the city behaves the same. But, anyway, as a\u00a0foreigner and a\u00a0student set up in Wroclaw, I\u00a0will do my best as far as the social inputs and cultural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":6125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1180,1181,1442,383,367,16,1441],"yoast_head":"\nHow people in Wroclaw live? 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