Cultural retention among Polish women who came to Canada between 1945 and 1960 as displaced persons or immigrants
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Abstract
women who came to canada between 1945 and 1960 as displaced persons or immigrants belonged to the post-war wave of refugees and immigrants from Poland' Displaced persons' experiences of forced migration involved war trauma' deportation' and exile.The majority of immigrants who came to canada were escaping the communist takeover of poland after the war.This group of Polish displaced persons and immigrants differed from those who had settled earlier or who would later come to Canada' They represented a cross-section of all Polish social strata and included skilled workers and professionals.Due to the involuntary nature of migration, the women maintained a strong sense of national identity and patriotism.Many remained in exile for several years before coming to canada and their long exiles led them through many countries and remote rocations in the worrd, canada offered them a safe haven where they courd reconstruct their homes.Their lives involved a series of adaptations, including the inevitable challenges of aging.The feminist perspective and phenomenology were selected as the framework for this study of cultural retention among these Polish women, the majority of whom have lived and aged in Winnipeg.The focus of the study was to investigate the experience of cultural retention and its significance on facilitating their future needs as seniors' Eight in-depth interviews were conducted.six major themes were identified for arl the participants: (a) boundbytraumaticpast,(b)resilienceandstrengthasahistoriclegacy'(c)women'srolein retaining cultural values, beliefs, and behaviours in the family' (d) women's role in promotionofthePolishcultureinCanada,(e)voluntarysocialactivity'and(Ðbelongingto Cultural retention ii two cultures.A sense of mission appeared as an overarching meaning of the experience of maintaining Potish culture in Canada by the participants of the study.The study shows that the Polish women have maintained their culture of origin, but at the same time successfutly adapted to the Canadian culture.Their cultural duality indicates cultural retention, but also modification of traditional Polish values.The participants of this study express a strong connection to their Polish cultural heritage but consider Canada as their home.Findings of this study may enhance understanding of the Polish culture and people of potish descent who are aging in Winnipeg.Recommendations include an attempt to identiÛ future needs of this aging population and ways to provide social services in culturally respectful ways.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".