1008 Human Factors of a Global Society
only traditional multiculturalism will be discussed.) It is also true about Poland although it is ste-
reotypically considered as a monocultural country. This picture derives from the fact that cultural
minorities constitute not more than 3% of its whole population. Additionally, there is no detailed
information, e.g., statistical data about refugees and immigrants in Poland, which neither shows the
dynamics of the process nor facilitates its understanding by indicating its features. As for the ethnic
and national groups living in Poland, they were silent and invisible under the communist regime,
and it is only now that they have started the process of coming out and appearing in the public
sphere as its ...