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The Kashubians are an indigenous Slavic population living in northern Poland. According to a complicated history, the territory they inhabited was a part of both German and Polish states, which influenced the construction of the group’s ethnocultural identity. Presently, there are approximately 200,000 Kashubians, of whom almost 90% see themselves as simultaneously Kashubian and Polish. For the majority, the two components are inseparable in their community. Nevertheless, there are some leaders who claim that the Kashubians are a separate Slavic nation. Thus, we observe in ideological discussions about the contemporary status of the community two different definitions of identity. The ethnic option stresses the dual Kashubian-Polish character of identity. The national one asserts that the Kashubians comprise a separate nation. This chapter discusses the competition between these two views as well as their different identity politics. |
