@Onoma94: Autonomy is not even close to independence. The American states or even German lands have more independence than the non-existent Upper Silesian autonomy. By your definition there shouldn't be any independence movements on this map. And it doesn't even show the territory of the proposed Upper Silesian autonomy, since it includes Czech Silesia... The map is supposed to show movements, not legally registered organizations and the Polish law (or at least Polish courts, I'm not sure about the law) reject registering any separatist organizations.
It's all about politics. Poland doesn't even recognize the existence of Silesian language. Well, go argue with the International Organization for Standardization then, because they gave us the ISO 639-3 "szl" code. I assume you do speak Polish, can you understand this?
We antryju na byfyju stoi szŏlka tyju. Zarŏ wyfurgōm bez te ôkno skuli tygo fandzolyniŏ, abo siy klupna ô gardinsztanga jak niy trefia bo żech je ôżarty jak pierōn.
Polish point of view on this problem is obviously biased because of politics.
I'm tired of explaining it over and over again... Since this tread is for map making and none of us can help the OP more, I think it's good to just end the discussion about Silesia / Kashubia here.
Edited 5/26/2016 04:28:48