Have Polish Ancestry? You may be Able to Obtain Polish (and European Union) Citizenship

[Ford]

Why is it a tragedy?

Brain drain for the most part.

[Peterski]

Brain drain for the most part.

I think the dumbest emigrated, not the smartest. This is also why Polish immigrants don't have such good reputation abroad.

[Matxe92]

I have polish blood. But i have german origins by law.

In the future they should say, show us your DNA results.

[billErobreren]

I have no Polish ancestry so that won't apply to me as much as I'm fond of Poland. I hope it works out for them.

[pulstar]

Too bad I don't

[Seya]

Lpl it's like israel where you get citizenship if your grandparents is jew

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Anywhere in europe u get citizenship if u have one grandparent of a certain nationality

[Mikula]

Germany: 80 million people
Poland: 40 million people

German-Americans: 40 million
Polish-Americans: 10 million

German-Americans are 1/2 of the population of Germany, while Polish-Americans are only 1/4 of the population of Poland.

Obviously German emigration rate was more dramatic.

But to the German Americans are counted not only people who had ancestors in Germany but also German-speaking people from the area of Austro-Hungarian Empire

[Peterski]

But to the German Americans are counted not only people who had ancestors in Germany but also German-speaking people from the area of Austro-Hungarian Empire

Some of them identify as "Austrian-Americans" I think (and they have to be added to that number). But generally I agree.

However, Austria has only several million people, less than 9 million in total.

Also - for example - most of Sudetendeutsche descendants live in Germany (especially in Bavaria) today - not in Austria.

Edit:

Austrian-Americans (Österreichische-Amerikaner): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Americans

[Daco Celtic]

I'll pass this info along to my Polish-American friends.

[Mikula]

Some of them identify as "Austrian-Americans" I think (and they have to be added to that number). But generally I agree.

However, Austria has only several million people, less than 9 million in total.

Also - for example - most of Sudetendeutsche descendants live in Germany (especially in Bavaria) today - not in Austria.

Edit:

Austrian-Americans (Österreichische-Amerikaner): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Americans

Yes, but in 19th Century came to America a lot of German speaking people from Austrian Empire, it means not only from nowadys Austria but also from German speaking areas of nowadays Czech Repulblic, Italy (Southern Tirolia), and their descendents proclaims themeself as of German (not Austrian etc.) origin