(July 9, 2013 at 4:02 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: We had a a lot of Polish people come over here to work a few years ago (they've mostly gone back to Poland now, though) and when I started my old job (where I was the only white female, out of about 60, who wasn't Polish), I was quite surprised by how overly religious they all were. I remember one day, a customer had left a book behind, one of L. Ron Hubbard's, and I put it to one side so I could hand it in to Lost Property at the end of my shift. When I came back from my break, the book was in the bin. When I asked her why she'd decided to throw away a customer's property, she told me she'd flipped through it and it was "evil." Pretty weird.
Degree of religiosity has nothing to do with boarders and everything to do with conditions at the time. The less educated and the more desperate the poor are, the more dogmatic they are to worship a state or a religion or political party.
