Question

Casimir Pulaski Day is always an important holiday in Chicago, a city with more Polish people than anywhere else in the United States. Although not well remembered in the rest of the country, Pulaski was a Polish-born hero of the American Revolution and a cavalry general. What concept helps to explain why this holiday is so much more important to people who trace their ancestry to Poland?

Answer 1

Answer: symbolic ethnicity

Answer 2

Answer: The Casimir Pulaski Day is so much more important to people who trace their ancestry to Poland because he encouraged to the Polish who were in the us to fight for the Poland independence.

Explanation:

Poland had been divided between Russia, Prussia and the Austrian Empire, and its sovereignty was not restored until 1918. It is estimated that some 20,000 Poles living in the United States signed up to participate in a Polish army that was formed in 1917 to fight in French soil.

Casimir Pulaski was one of the great heroes of the American War of Independence. He was born in Poland, where in 1768 he fought as a member of the confederation of lawyers against the Russian domination of the Commonwealth.

Time after his funeral ,doctors decided to make test of his bones and found that apparently this brave soldier was actually a woman.