Uwarunkowania i perspektywy dyskusji na temat narodu Śląskiego

Abstract

The wave of transformations commenced by the ‘round table’ led the issue of the Silesian nation to be discussed by sociologists, political scientists, ethnologists, and – what is more significant – politicians. This issue was far from surprising for the researchers into the problems of Silesia as the native population of (both Upper and Lower) Silesia have clearly distanced themselves from a unanimous declaration of nationality, whether Polish or German, since the early 1980s. It was a semi-solution, adopted particularly by the Silesian living in Poland, to point to their Silesian nationality, as an alternative to being defined as a native Polish population.