Karaims are an unusual minority, because they combine the features of a religious and ethnic group. It is worth mentioning that only so called Crimean-Polish Karaims are both religious and ethnic group. Currently the society of Polish Karaims is very sparse and consists mostly of elderly people. Among the younger generation assimilative tendencies are strong, which results in reduction of cultural activity of this society. However the political transformations in Middle and Eastern Europe at the turn of the 80' and 90' helped Karami to get in touch with their countrymen living in other countries and their cultural life to be reborn.
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