Most of that is from their upbringing and conditioning. I can tell you one thing about the Poles...their reputation as a stupid people is CRAP. I'm sitting here wearing a Polish Special Forces hat my friend from Polish Army gave me. I worked along-side them in Afghanistan as part of a NATO contingent and their guys made our guys look WEAK. I really hate to say that but even our young soldiers would look at them in awe and literally hang their heads watching them prepare for a mission. They had Russian contractors flying THEIR helicopters fly them in pallets of food AND VODKA about twice a week, and my contribution was I'd unload the helo's with my John Deer Gator. Sooo...they would invite us over to party, and party they did. My site had both Polish Army/SpecOps and U.S. Army. They had a Finnish 8 wheeled armored vehicle and a few of us got to drive it at our site...lookup "Patria AMV". That sucker was badass...had a stick throttle like a fighter jet, could hit 60mph and each wheel had independent suspension for an ultra smooth ride. I can't recall 100% but I think it's cannon was a 20mm which isn't that big BUT it had rapid fire so you could correct your aim well. The 101st Airborne Cmdr got pissed when he found out we had driven it and were hanging out with them AND that I was unloading their helo's...but we were civilian so [fuck him]. I was in charge of my group so we ignored him. ANYWAY...they are uber Patriots and I think a lot of that was they didn't forget their history LIKE WE TEND TO DO. I wish I could share a pic of this hat...it's cool.