My main point was that I'm sick and tired with the amount of FUD about Poland in the West, so I wanted to point out the false analogies. Silesia is nothing lik

My main point was that I'm sick and tired with the amount of FUD about Poland in the West, so I wanted to point out the false analogies. Silesia is nothing like Catalonia - I know that because I live there (Silesia, I mean). There's no real support for the separatists ideas, because at the end of the day Silesians are not really that different from Poles - except maybe that they talk with slight accent and have a dozen or two of words borrowed from German. The concept of them demanding autonomy is as alien to me as the Switzerland demanding access to the Atlantic Ocean coast :) EDIT: to be clear, I have nothing against granting them autonomy. In fact I think that getting rid of Silesia would solve most of Poland's economic problems :)