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"And yes, both Poles and Ukrainians culturally have a tendency for playing zero-sum games."
Can confirm: Greet a stranger on the street in either country and he'll look at you wondering what the catch is.
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Haha, that's 100% true — overall level of social distrust is relatively high in Eastern Europe, although I heard many Ukrainians and Russians praising Poland for "everyone is smiling here" attitude :) I don't see it when coming from UK to PL, but that's probably matter of the baseline which is much higher in the UK in terms of smiling. But I can understand that because when I was going to Russia there was a stark contrast as you went to a shop and if you said "hello" or — God forbid! — smiled, everyone looked at you as you were high or stupid 😁
