Do I look Polish? (my picture)

Hi, LostSoul :) ok, I understand. I'm sure as other posters say, there must be a bit of a mix in many people. And when you look at Polish people, you see that there are certain types, some fair, some quite dark etc. There must be a few influences there. As for what people would think, I don't think most people wouldn't be bothered at all. The truth is they just don't really care. The thing is though that you are young, early twenties isn't it? And if you have Aspergers, your peer group (not close friends, but casual acquaintances) can often sense that you're a bit different and take a slightly malicious pleasure in winding you up, so they may make comments about Jews or whatever if they think you're sensitive about it. Also remember when you go online, there are sad/weird people whose hobby is haunting chat forums just to be cruel or nasty for the sake of it. As the song says, 'don't worry, be happy' :)

Probably a mix of both, with mathematically most tending towards the median population. There were very few actual noblemen (magnaty) in Poland though, however there were a lot of szlachta (sometimes mistranslated by Poles or foreigners with some Polish roots as nobility; there is a certain amount of wishful thinking here). At the time of the second partition, they were about 12% to 18% of the population. Gentlefolk is probably the most accurate English term. There's also a word yeomanry, something between szlachta and ziemianin. Equivalent terms between societies are hard to find, since sociopolitical structures differ.


I always think that's sad. It's more or less the opposite where I'm from.

There's no single 'look' here. 'Types', yes, however not everybody fits them, and that's no bad thing. We are all who we are; even two siblings get a different amount of dna from different ancestors. Which is why one person can take after a particular relative in terms of appearance and another sibling can take after someone else entirely. Some ancestors may have given us plenty of their dna, and some many have given is little or none.

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Do I look Polish?

I'm Belgian, but many think I'm Polish, what do you think, do I look Polish in terms of facial features?

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Belgian, although you could just about pass here.

@jon357
Ok but then why do my Belgium friends all make fun of me that I look like a Pole?

The baseball cap and the clothes, maybe,

Do you have access to family members or government records which could inform you if any ancestors of yours migrated from Poland to Belgium? That is a better way to find out your heritage.

Additionally, you could try one or more of those DNA testing services. Not that they are reliable but they may give you a general estimate of your lineage to other present day countries.

Any of these would be better than guessing by physiognomy and craniometry.


That would mean Vanilla Ice is Polish. Still, closer than you will ever get.

I wouldn't think Polish as a first guess if asked, but if I were told you were Polish I would believe it... that is, you don't look stereotypically Polish but lots of Polish people don't look stereotypically Polish either....)

@simpleboi95
You wouldn't stand out in a crowd in Poland but also I don't think your looks are typically Polish.
There are red haired people in Poland but not many. I don't see anything particularly Polish in your features either.
Just a regular European guy.

@kaprys
Bro, I don't have red hair. Only my beard, my hair is brownish blonde

You could pass as Polish, but you don't look Polish.

You look Polish, but only as someone whose first name is Mirosław. Yes, they always look exactly like yourself ...

Who is Miroslaw?

Did you want to know who is Miroslaw? Miroslaw is the first poster of ability who refused to regard it as guilt. He is the first poster who would not do penance for his virtues or let them be used as the tools of his destruction. He is the poster who would not suffer martyrdom at the hands of those who wished him to perish for the privilege of keeping them alive (continue for three hours)

(hoping somebody gets it)

As an Irish person, I would say that your hair is redder than you think! If you have red in your facial hair, there will be an underlying red tint to your brown hair. Try bleaching it and I can guarantee it will turn orange or yellow, not silvery blonde. As for your features, you look far more German than Polish. I remember you asking this question here a few months ago and you don't look any more Polish now than you did then :)

@Atch
Lol , yes I did posted here couple of months ago, back then I had short hair. You have paid good attention 😂😂👌.. I was checking if the people here were true to their words. Yes German was also a guess some people thought i was.. And for the red tint, it is as it is. Not gonna bleach it, i have thin hair already

I think it's because I was a teacher for many years, I tend to remember faces. I once taught a little girl who was the naughtiest child in the school. She was about six years old at the time. Years later I was walking down a quiet residential road and across the street I saw a face I remembered :) She was now about fourteen years old and had exactly the same expression on her face 'Woops! There's 'teacher'! I'm in trouble again.....' :))

@Miloslaw
So what is required in order to look Polish?

@Atch that explains, and I can be naughty too 😈

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Do I look Polish?

Just wondering if I look polish to you.

You probably need to post your photo ;)

Yes, you do, a little. Why do you want to know?

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I recently dyed my hair.
Do I look Polish with blonde hair?

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Didn't you say before that your hair was thinning a bit? If it is, then I'm not sure bleaching it is a good idea. But no, you actually look less Polish than you did before and more like an aging member of Hitler Youth :)) Seriously though you look more German or Dutch than Polish.

@Atch
To be honest my hair is thicker now then before because I took biotin and niacin which thickened my hair tremendously. I know it is not healthy but for one time it's not gonna hurt it😄

@pawian
I want to live there, that's why.

You don't actually have to look Polish to live here....

@mafketis
I know, but I'm not sure if they like foreigners, especially since I have a jewish last name 😅

Depends on what you mean by 'like'... if you learn the language and how things work you shouldn't have any problems....


A lot of them around in Poland too....

I have it. What that fact indicate according to you?

@mafketis
Ok. And by "like" I meant accepting or open to people from different countries/ancestry. I can speak a bit polish already.

Then you should not have undue problems (some problems because moving to a new country is always a fraught process....)

I would advise avoiding Warsaw, and Kraków.... (maybe Łódź and Katowice for different reasons) but one of the other larger cities (Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, Szczecin, Lublin) should be fine.