As the exact geographical center of Europe, Poland has been "the-country-to-invade" on countless occasions.

As the middle-child of sorts it will never be able to just tuck its chin to its chest and plow forward into the future, it will always have to be in the middle of the European (and now global) fray. Its identity, both cultural and national, will be maintained regardless of its purity in origin. In fact, having a more diverse origin for its cultural traditions will probably only further enable Polish identity to continue to absorb other cultures, reinvent itself, and better prepare the Polish people for the continuous pressure of cultural and ethnic globalization.

Poland is by no means a culture-poor nation. The ethnographic regions are rich with folklore, music, religious customs, traditional festivals, and artistic expression. Each region not only identifies itself as a specific cultural region of Poland, but all of Poland's regions identify themselves as part of the greater, "Polish" cultural heritage. Whether this is directly as result of the numerous times throughout history that Poland has had to maintain its "Polish" identity, or whether it's an after-affect of nationhood/nation-building and nationalism become irrelevant. The problem though, as was stated earlier in this paper, is identification of the "uniquely" Polish becomes difficult, if not impossible.

Within Poland, the "preoccupation with national themes has rendered Polish culture unusually insular, perhaps even provincial, and has prevented it from attracting a broader world audience."^{1Mieczysław B. Biskupski, The History of Poland, (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000.} On the other hand, insular may not be the right word. Poland has in effect, made itself a modern, diversified, cultural heritage should it choose to market itself as such. It has such a complex and unique history as the center of Europe.

¹Biskupski, Mieczysław B. The History of Poland. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000.