Polish Americans are Americans who either have total or partial Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland.
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33 Facts About Polish Americans
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Polish Americans are the second-largest Central European ethnic group after German Americans, and the eighth largest ethnic group overall in the United States.
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Many immigrants were classified as "Russian", "German" or "Austrian" by the U S Immigration and Naturalization Service as the Polish state did not exist from 1795 to 1918 when the former territories of Poland were under German, Austrian-Hungarian and Russian control.
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Polish Americans American Heritage Month is an event in October by Polish Americans American communities, first celebrated in 1981.
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Chicago's Polish Americans community was concentrated along the city's Northwest and Southwest Sides, along Milwaukee and Archer Avenues, respectively.
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New York City Metropolitan Area, including the borough of Brooklyn in New York City as well as Northern New Jersey, is home to the second largest community of Polish Americans and is closely behind the Chicago area's Polish population.
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However, within New Jersey, Polish Americans populations are additionally increasing rapidly in Clifton, Passaic County as well as in Garfield, Bergen County.
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LOT Polish Americans Airlines provides non-stop flight service between JFK International Airport in the Queens borough of New York City, Newark and Warsaw.
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Milwaukee's Polish Americans population has always been overshadowed by the city's more numerous German American inhabitants.
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Nevertheless, the city's once numerous Polish Americans community built a number of Polish Americans Cathedrals, among them the magnificent Basilica of St Josaphat and St Stanislaus Catholic Church.
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Polonia in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul is centered on Holy Cross Church in the Northeast Neighborhood of Minneapolis, where a vibrant Polish Americans ministry continues to care for the Polish Americans Roman Catholic Faithful.
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The city of Detroit has a very large Polish Americans community, which historically settled in Poletown and Hamtramck on the east side of Detroit, the neighborhoods along Michigan Avenue from 23rd street into east Dearborn, the west side of Delray, parts of Warrendale and several sections of Wyandotte downriver.
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Polish Americans influence is still felt throughout the entire metropolitan Detroit area, especially the suburb of Wyandotte, which is slowly emerging as the major center of Polish Americans American activities in the state.
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Cleveland's other Polish Americans section is in Tremont, located on Cleveland's west side.
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Polish Americans influences are still common today, in the form of church bazaars, polka music, and Polish Americans cuisine.
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Visitors can do an entire day's business completely in Polish Americans including banking, shopping, dining, legal consultations, and even dance lessons.
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Polish Americans built dozens of Polish Cathedrals in the Great Lakes and New England regions and in the Mid-Atlantic States.
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Also, the Polish Americans Community created the Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine on the campus of Marymount Hospital.
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Polish Americans preserved their longstanding tradition of venerating the Lady of Czestochowa in the United States.
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The veneration of the Virgin Mary in Polish parishes is a significant difference between Polish Catholicism and American Catholicism; Polish nuns in the Felician Order for instance, took to Marianism as the cornerstone of their spiritual development, and Polish churches in the U S were seen as "cult-like" in their veneration of Mary.
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Polish Americans parishioners founded the church to assert independence from the Catholic Church in America.
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Typical Polish Americans American male was born in the United States, spoke Polish Americans in his home when he was a child, but speaks English now, is 38.
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The median household income for Americans of Polish descent is estimated by the U S Census as $73, 452, with no statistically significant differences from other Slavic-American groups, Czech, Slovak, and Ukrainian.
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Polish Americans community was long the subject of anti-Polish Americans sentiment in America.
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Many popular Polish Americans foods became a fixture in the American cuisine of today, including kielbasa, babka cake, kaszanka, pierogi, and, especially around the time of Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, paczki doughnuts.
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Polish Americans carried on celebrations of Constitution Day throughout their time in the United States without political suppression.
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Polish Americans culture left culinary marks in the United States – the inclusion of traditional Polish Americans cuisine such as pierogi, kielbasa, golabki.
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Some of these Polish Americans foods were tweaked and reinvented in the new American environment, such as Chicago's Maxwell Street Polish Americans Sausage.
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Polish Americans have contributed to altering the physical landscape of the cities they have inhabited, erecting monuments to Polish-American heroes such as Kosciuszko and Pulaski.
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Early Polish Americans immigrants built houses with high-pitched roofs in the United States.
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Those who contributed to the Polish Americans military created Polish Americans Army Veterans' Association in America.
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