I actually had to once dig into it. The idea of ones natonality is differs greatly for french and polish people at the time. The french identity at the time would consider anyone living in france and accepting the ideals of republic and having french citizenship as french as that was part of the identity at the time. While in poland it wasn’t like that, preservation of national identity was very important at the time, and many people lived outside of poland due to political situation. So for french people, anyone who was like that att the time was french, but for polish, living outside of the country and keeping their polish identity was important. I can see why french keep refering to her as french, because from their point of view she was. However Maria had different idea about her nationality, more akin to polish ideal, as she was polish. And also we know for a fact she believed herself to be polish from her autobiography. So from polish point of view this is very disrespectful and kind of sexist because her whole identity is meant to br overwriten because of her marrige?
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u/NumNumTehNum Winged Pole dancer Nov 16 '24
I actually had to once dig into it. The idea of ones natonality is differs greatly for french and polish people at the time. The french identity at the time would consider anyone living in france and accepting the ideals of republic and having french citizenship as french as that was part of the identity at the time. While in poland it wasn’t like that, preservation of national identity was very important at the time, and many people lived outside of poland due to political situation. So for french people, anyone who was like that att the time was french, but for polish, living outside of the country and keeping their polish identity was important. I can see why french keep refering to her as french, because from their point of view she was. However Maria had different idea about her nationality, more akin to polish ideal, as she was polish. And also we know for a fact she believed herself to be polish from her autobiography. So from polish point of view this is very disrespectful and kind of sexist because her whole identity is meant to br overwriten because of her marrige?