My aunt Kathy is all polish as opposed to me. They call her cat woman. She has mediterranean skin - beautiful olive. black hair and dark cat-like eyes big and round like Turkmen and pointed like the monguls (asian). it wasn't until i read more about polish history that i acknowledged - it really wasn't the milkman!
I am polish and irish and have dark eyes (from black irish grandma). Yes high cheekbones and a serious booty! The thing i LOVED about going to Poland was seeing men with serious gedonkadunks!! YeeHAwww!
I have been told by a puertorican there is no way I can be "white" (poor uninformed child ie european) "with a booty like dat."
Native americans stop me - thinking i am a lost tribe member. people think i am turkish , lebanese..... half korean....Irish and polish have the almond eyes. the irish have this part of the eye that will fold over but since my skin tone is yellow from my father's side(irish), people think I'm Asian.
There is no "typical " polish person... I learned that on my trip. There is such a diversity of looks and people there. Yes the women are good looking but so are the men!!!!
I find the correlations of both maps Lukasz extremely interesting, I have heard the term "White Russian" before from my father,meaning blonde hair, blue eyes.Interesting,the epicentre of these statistics,and correct me if I am wrong all point to Scandinavia, is there evidence other than this that correlates to the Vikings, after all ,I believe Russia gained its name from a viking leader "Rus",and this paralell of blonde hair and blue eyes co-incides with what I propose to have been Viking, conquered areas, that were most convenient for their initial campaigns.
Hi everyone, I'm new here (first post actually), and I find this thread very interesting.
I'm 19, half-Belgian, half-Polish. People always think I'm 100% Belgian. I'm bad at describing my looks in English, so I added a picture of myself on my profile, and I'm very curious to hear what the 'experts' have to say. Never mind my hair, it's always in such a mess.
The maps are really interesting but I would say quite deceiving. They show you the countries after 1945 and to give a thought to 'Polish look' as a percentage of face features within 'Yalta borders' - which is also a very harsh and 'touchy' subject for Poles - might be just a bit inadequate. It is not to argue about history cos everybody knows Polish borders where changing and reaching more to the east and south than on the maps above - everybody knows that in XVI century people who lived in Poland (or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) where very mixed - ethnically just to think now of the words they used to describe each other like Lach, Madziar, Rusin (which doesn't mean Russian) or if you think of Mickiewicz writing 'Litva! My country (...)' in Polish.
Anyway people will always try to guess where you from just looking at your face or your accent or sometimes even your clothes. You can point them a map with 'percentage average Polish look' or educate them about history but as you can see from the discussion above it is not an easy question and these are hardly answers to them.
The only thing I can say that if you were shooting a movie about early Polish country (10th century), Slavic tribe life or even about what we call 'Kresy' - your cast would hardly be full of light skin, blue eyes blondies ;p
The only thing I can say that if you were shooting a movie about early Polish country (10th century), Slavic tribe life or even about what we call 'Kresy' - your cast would hardly be full of light skin, blue eyes blondies ;p
In 10th century Jewish travler Abraham ben Jacob decribed Poles. He claimed that Poles were much fairer than Czechs.
Yeah, I can agree with that. But it depends how he described Czechs as well - cos scandinavian blond is what I'd call 'blondies'. It is because yes originally Slavs are a nordic 'nation' (or Indo-European) as most of the nations in Europe. I'm sorry I'm not an expert so please correct me when I'm wrong. Some argue that 'nordic' was actually more ginger than blond - but it is used I guess mostly against people claiming some 'white domination' or superiority within European nations or other racist stuff. In European culture the image of blond hair, blue eyes has a meaning for people, sometimes it's good sometimes very much politically incorrect. Anyway even if we take the group who came from the east as light hair one the thing that later distinguished Poles from the rest of the Europe was the closeness to other groups like Mongols, Bulgars, Huns, Magyars - which contributes to the features like for example the dark eyes or at some point very dark hair. Some say the fact that the slavic languages are different than the germanic ones because of the impact the eastern groups had on Slavs - even when it comes to character.
Anyway maybe yes 10th might be to early to pin the Polish look as light brown hair, brown eyes (or even green) and light olive skin but it proves that what one thinks of ethnicity might be connected more to history, even literature or to put it in one word as culture rather that 'genes evaluation'. To be quite honest I would risk and say that what Poles think of their look could be more connected to what is written in such books as 'Ogniem i mieczem' or Chlopi or people's songs which praise those 'black eyes' And yes, 'White Russians' might have been earlier in those lands than those with other features (mostly result of mixture) but it doesn't explain why people hold this or other pictures in their mind of their or others ethnicity.
I don't know if it is something we can establish and give a simple answer to the question. As I said Poles very much mixed with nations around but this is this something peculiar about them and for me it makes it part of our identity - when I look at my eyes it is good to feel the 'history behind it' and knowing we shared this part of history with Ukrainians for example makes me sigh every time i hear Kozak, Sicz, Kresy etc. I don't know why I think like that but it's amazing what pictures one holds in its mind...
Hmm, maybe that's why some people want to pin the Polish look as the dark eyes, dark blond hair as it was result of the fact that Poland was reaching so far east. Which brings back the image of this great, big and powerful country. These are the 'outcomes' of this part of history we are most proud of or maybe not, cos there are moments which fill us with pride even more, but definitely the stories and tales we most often sigh to ;p
Vilagers are more blond than other citizens - natural Polish look is fair hair and eyes it is not mixing result, nobility or townfolks mixed with French Italians and others go and look on Mazovian vilages they have nothing to do with east or west they sit in their vilages like it was 100 years ago and 200 years ago and 1000 years ago. Mongols settlet mostly in Ukriaine and Lithuaina it is historical fact.
Some people keep saying that polish people have one distinct look, that every single Pole looks absolutely Polish. No way, but in Eastern Europe, particularly in Poland, Ukraine and Russia, people just look very similar. I am 3rd generation Polish, and when I introduce myself to new people they ask, so when did you come to America? and what country are you from? Even close friends would swear that I am Russian, and where I work even foreign exchange students think I am one of them! I guess I have the "facial expressions" of a Slav. ;) Also I am tall and thin, and increasingly Americans are getting larger, so when they see a thin person theytag them as an outsider!!
I am Polish and my whole entire family including me, have dark ash brown hair and brown eyes, but we ALL look Polsih, if you know what I mean. I think the typical Polish look is a cute and plummy face (not plumy as in fat, just roundish) with blonish, light hair. youtube.com/watch?v=OJQZ_p8X8C8&feature=related < if you look in this video, the blonde girl on the left, to me looks like the typical Polish girl. One thing I have noticed about Polish girls and men, and that is, they are beautiful, and its true.
I just have to add, that when I was travelling to Poland, I could recognise every Polish person I saw on the plane and in the airport. The eyes give it away, they droop, like puppy dog eyes.
Man do I hate poland. Polish people are ALL inbred and that's why 8 out of 10 girls look the same. There is nothing special about polish girls.they are FAR from being good looking. Most of them have MANLY features.
I'm pretty good at figuring out ones nationality by certain features. This is a picture of my brother and I. We are 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Polish. I've been told that I look Irish and he looks Polish? Thoughts?
Yes, I definitely have the polish eyes.....I was reading where the Mongols came into Poland a gazillion years ago. I never knew that. My father has the heavy eye lids, causing his eyes to look asian when he smiles.
Interesting thread. I can usually tell someone of eastern european or russian descent. I know I look different but whenever I am in Poland I always think of how I don't look like most Polish women. For starters I don't have the long thin legs that everyone here is talking about- short legs for me! I have brown hair, blue almond shaped eyes and almost yellow (?) skin! Also, I didn't get blessed with the Polish thin gene.
oh well, I think I was made to work in the fields plowing and harvesting. lol
blue almond shaped eyes and almost yellow (?) skin!
my grandma has yellowish skin & shes czech but i think shes part something else like tatar cuz i saw a picture of a old tatar lady & she looked like a fat version of my grandma but my grandma might also be part jewish because she kinda looks like anne frank & its more realistic lol i found a picture of a lady i think is my other grandma who died before i was born it looks like she has the same kinda eyes as you & she was part polish
I am half Polish and I have naturally very curly light brown hair, deep olive green eyes, and a very full lower lip (not so much the upper lip)..... does any of that sound like Polish features ????
i got to say that the bulgarians are completely different than the east-europeans
there is a bulgarian coach at my rink he trained in russia & almost went to the oylmpics but then something happened but he wont tell us what but anyways i think he kinda looks mediteranian
Usually when people I meet find out my ancestory.... they say that they can definitly see the Polish more prominently and the African Am. and Irish features are very subtle. I wish I could upload a picture of myself, but I cant cuz they are the wrong size or something!!!
and a very full lower lip (not so much the upper lip)..... OMG! i look almost like you kinda! but my hair is dark & has a slight wave when i dont brush it when its wet, i have practicly no upper lip & my eyes are greenish hazelish
That's funny, because I recognize myself in these descriptions as well. I have a fuller lower lip and almost no upper lip, except when I smile.
