The article presents the results of research conducted in the years 2003 - 2005 among the students of English Philology in Warsaw, Poznań, Lublin, Białystok, Zamość, Chełm and Biala Podlaska. The quantitative part of the research consisted of a questionnaire “Preferences in the perception of culture among Polish students of English,” which was completed by 440 respondents, while the qualitative part included 25 semi - structured personal interviews. The main aim of the study was to determine the students’ linguistic and cultural preferences for British and American culture in the context of Polish and European culture. Moreover, the article attempts to answer the question to what extent the perception of Anglo-American culture is caused by the student’s personal preferences and to what extent it is a consequence of being taught Anglo - American culture at the English departments. A relatively high rate of the answers indicating stereotypical attitudes to Anglo - American culture seems to suggest that it is the personal preferences and extra - curricular activities rather than classes devoted to British and American culture that have larger influence on the reception of Anglo - American culture among the students of English Philology.
We are certainly living in the age of growing isolation, atomization and dehumanization of various forms of human existence and activity. This generalization applies in equal measure to present academic life, and the process has been greatly accelerated by the disappearance of many traditionally rooted forms of university life, as well as detrimental effects of all-pervading Covid-19 epidemic, both on university teaching, but also on the process of popularization and exchange of scientific knowledge. In contrast to present point-hunting nature of academic life where success is measured by the number of vaguely-defined and subjectively granted points the figure of Professor Jacek Fisiak stands out as the symbol of multidirectional academic success in various socio-political systems in which he happened to be active, both in Poland and on the international academic scene.
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