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What traits do Czech people have?

Being a Czech myself (thus biased about the question) I’ll list what comes to my mind, in general comparison with members of other nations that I met (both to the East and to the West). I’ll keep the number of positives and negatives balanced and will gradually expand it:Czechs are freedom-loving and open minded (although this is somehow clouded recently by widespread and exaggerated fears of immigrants and anti-Muslim feelings)Czechs are quite direct and frank, don’t indulge in much politeness phrases, fake smiles, etc.Czechs are quite down-to-earth, realistic, frugal.Czechs are creative and skilled and there unusually lot of various industries and businesses for such a small country (cars production, airplanes, top antivirus software, computer games, drones, tramways, guns, para-glides, …)Czechs are in average well-educated as the education institutions have long tradition and stable quality (even though somewhat disconnected from business practice)Czechs are quite diligent in their work and take pride in it.Czechs generally like sport and are internationally outstanding in some disciplines (ice hockey, tennis, some athletics, skiing, not bad in soccer). They also enjoy the nature with activities like hiking, camping, canoeing, mushroom finding, …But:Czechs tend to be overtly passive about their life and tend to complain about other people and the government instead of making an active change in their life.Czechs tend to be overtly parsimonious and not generous. When buying stuff, we prefer cheap stuff and undervalue quality.Attitudes of service staff and officials tend to be impolite and irritable, especially for the older generation who grew during the communist era.Czechs tend to be overly critical about others as well as themselves.Czechs tend to lack self-confidence. They are also not very good in persuasive communication, marketing, …Czechs have a “small country mentality”, caring about their own problems and not much willing to contribute to solution of global issues.Many Czechs lack much style in dressing, many of them don’t care.And we take much pride in our beer, ice hockey and our beautiful women.

Why is there so much graffiti in Czechia/the Czech Republic cities while much less in Poland/the Republic of Poland, even though both had a communist past?

I think that difference is caused by history.In XIX century when modern national cultures had been born, middle European societies were strongly divided on classes: nobility, townsfolk and peasants.In XIX c. Poland nobility spoke Polish, townsfolk spoke German, Yiddish and only sometimes Polish and peasants spoke Polish, Ukrainian or Belarusian.In XIX c. Czechia nobility spoke German, townsfolk spoke German or Czech and peasants spoke Czech.Because of that Czech culture base more on townsfolk’s culture and peasants’ culture when Polish culture base on mix of nobility’s and peasants’ cutlure.Nobility and peasants’ cultures had at least one common thing, appearance was very important in both societies. You could be a victim of gossips and social ostracism when You, Your house or family didn’t keep social rules of appearance or behaviour.There is even a proverb in Polish“Jak cię widzą, tak cię piszą” - “How they see You that they write about You”From the other side people of cities and towns were more anonymous and due to that more free in shaping of their appearance or behaviour.That why Czechs are more liberal and easy-going than Poles.It has nothing in common with rebellious of both nations.BTW, Poland has long traditions in decorating of walls.ZalipieWarszawa, Nowe MiastoGdańsk, ŚródmieścieŁódźKatowice

What do Czech people think about Slovak people living in Czech Republic and speaking Slovak and not Czech?

When someone speaks Slovak, it means that she or he is Slovak, and it’s almost equivalent as being Czech here. No bad blood here, despite the fact that there exists a slur, “čobol”, for Slovaks in the Czech slang. (It’s derived from “čo bolo to bolo, terazky som major” – or the Slovak translation of “what happened, happened, now I am a major” in a classic Czech movie about some special army units after the communist coup.)Whether a Slovak person decides to try to speak Czech or keep Slovak is up to him or her. There are pressures in both directions and I know examples of both groups. If someone isn’t able to get rid of the Slovak accent or some Slovak mistakes in every third word, I think it just sounds better if she or he tries to keep the full-blown Slovak instead.Someone finds it easier to simply switch to Czech. I don’t think it’s a problem, either. It’s not really a betrayal of his or her nation because from a viewpoint, we’re still really one Czechoslovak nation. And there were wise Slovaks such as Ján Kollár in the 19th century who wanted to codify the Czech language and classify Slovak as a dialect of Czech.The last communist president Gustáv Husák was Slovak and he spoke his own “Czechoslovak” language. The expected winner of the October 2017 elections Andrej Babiš, a Slovak billionaire, speaks a somewhat similar Slovak variation of Czech. Czech voters surely don’t seem to care about this detail. I think it’s OK that they don’t care. I find it much more troubling that they don’t care that he’s a former communist agent, a liar, and a future would-be dictator who openly spits on the basic pillars of a free and democratic society.