ABSTRACT
“Mass culture” or “popular culture” did not displace ethnic culture but certainly transformed it in the 1920–1930s. New fashions, new styles, and forms of expression helped to transform and make more attractive the cultures of ethnic groups and working classes, to some degree making them stronger. From the beginning of their arrival to the US immigrants from Polish territories unselfconsciously repeated and reproduced the home-acquired customs, behaviors, rituals, esthetic patterns, and culinary habits. It helped Polish diaspora in the United States to preserve its ethnic identity and strengthened Polish communities. People soon transitioned from “private homeland” identity to “ideological homeland” (Poland).
