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Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde?


HMarie - | 1
21 May 2010 #331
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What kind of hair do Polish people typically have?

My mom was adopted, but all we know about her
is that she's a Polish Jew. My dad's Danish, but as far as I know
they have pretty straight, light hair.
My hairs thick, brown, and curly. Is that Polish at all?
My boyfriend's mostly Irish, and he says some Irish hair is
thick and dark like that, but I'm
only a little Irish. I'm also a little English, but that's it.
I'm trying to figure out where I got this hair.
Kasia313
28 Jun 2010 #332
I have dark brown hair, dark complexion and bright green eyes and am polish, this is just a stereotype..

Polskie dziewczyny są naj lepsze ;)
pgtx 29 | 3,146
28 Jun 2010 #333
naj lepsze ;)

najlepsze!!!
Matowy - | 294
28 Jun 2010 #334
Gene inheritance doesn't work like that... if your family is 99% (for example) brown haired and brown eyed, but 1% is blue eyed and red haired, then depending on chance (I don't remember the exact percentages) you could end up with red hair and blue eyes in a very slim likelihood. In other words, just because only some of your genes have the necessary prequisites, it doesn't mean that these genes will be completely diluted by the stronger genes. If you're even a little Irish, then that could explain it. Either that or your mother had an affair at some point (I don't mean to be impolite, but it's a likely scenario, and very common). Are you sure there's no Medittiranean in your family?
Europa9
16 Apr 2011 #335
I don't really think so... I'm fully polish and I'm the only person in my family with blonde/blue eyes... everyone but me. I think most slavs and central europeans are with dark hair/eyes.
pppp
16 Apr 2011 #336
hair-probably yes,young people-65% natural light/dark brown,dark blond vs.35%natural blondes

Eyes- no. 8/10 Poles have light colour of eyes- blue/grey, green/grey, blue/green,grey,green,blue.
Ogien 5 | 241
16 Apr 2011 #337
Some study claimed 55% of Poles have light hair.
pppp
16 Apr 2011 #338
i don't know.maybe. it was my own research.people i see every day.there are definitely more blondes in the north.even very light blondes.Bydgoszcz,Szczecin,Olzstyn-about65- 70%,quite a lot of them in Bialystok.in the south there are fewer blondes and in Slask not to many
angies
16 Apr 2011 #339
In Poland dark blonde is considered as a hue of blonde. In that case

Some study claimed 55% of Poles have light hair

is true. If you don't consider dark blonde as a one of blonde hues then I would say that even as little as 15% of Poles have light hair (those are not statistical date just a number off the top of my head derived from a fact that I rarely see natural blondes).
besosozashvili - | 2
16 Apr 2011 #340
i don't know, but polish womens are very, very, very nice
jusia9 - | 36
18 Jan 2012 #342
over 70% of Polish population have light eyes ( blue, gray, green, blue-green)
over 50% of Poles are blond and light eyed people

most of the Poles when they are born are blond ( from dark blond to super blond) but when they are getting older the color change more to dark.

Im blue-green eyes and dark brown woman, both my parents ( their sibling and my grand parents are blue eyed).
I have light blond husband with blue eyes
our child is dark blond with blue eyes.

What I have noticed in the kindergarten - that for 33 children only 3 have really dark hair, rest even if they are brown eyed are blond.

What I have noticed that in Poland more often we like to mix - usualy blond girl has dark hair men, and blond guys love dark hair women.

I was never blond but my brother was super blond when he born.
My father has light eyes and black hair and my mother is blond with gray eyes.

I think that blue eyed people are the majority here.

Poles make reasearch what kind of man like the Polish women. They found out that dark hair with light eyes :)
ShAlEyNsTfOh 4 | 161
19 Jan 2012 #343
although the scandinavian countries technically house the highest percentage of light hair/eye citizens, I think Poland ranks #1, or even Russia for that matter - that is, if you take their much larger populations into account..
Des Essientes 7 | 1,290
19 Jan 2012 #345
although the scandinavian countries technically house the highest percentage of light hair/eye citizens, I think Poland ranks #1, or even Russia for that matter - that is, if you take their much larger populations into account..

The Finns are the blondest nation by percentage. Poland, like Russia, is blondest in its territory on the coast of the Baltic "the Blonde Sea":

bigthink.com/ideas/21266
JonnyM 11 | 2,615
19 Jan 2012 #346
Poland, like Russia, is blondest in its territory on the coast of the Baltic "the Blonde Sea":

Though there isn't any special preponderance of blond people along the Baltic Coast - do you know why?
Des Essientes 7 | 1,290
19 Jan 2012 #347
Though there isn't any special preponderance of blond people along the Baltic Coast

Look at the map provided in the link it says otherwise, but please explain why the map is wrong and you are right.
JonnyM 11 | 2,615
19 Jan 2012 #348
Look at the map provided in the link it says otherwise,

I did - and your 'big think website' doesn't concur with my or anyone else's experience of that region (in which the population is most decidedly not 'indigenous'). Perhaps you'd like to tell us what you noticed on your last visit to that part of Poland?
Des Essientes 7 | 1,290
19 Jan 2012 #349
I did - and your 'big think website' doesn't concur with my or anyone else's experience of that region

Maybe it does not concur with your experience but you are merely one person whereas the map is based on data gotten from actual anthropological research. As for your claim that your experience is the same as "anyone else's" you are being pompous, presumptuous, and stupid.
JonnyM 11 | 2,615
19 Jan 2012 #350
Maybe it does not concur with your experience but you are merely one person whereas the map is based on data gotten from actual anthropological research.

Read it carefully and you'll see that it isn't. Do you even know what the phrase 'ciemny blondyn' means?

pompous, presumptuous, and stupid.

From you that could be a compliment - it's clearly a phrase you have heard often.
Wroclaw 44 | 5,379
19 Jan 2012 #351
i and i imagine the forum are fed up with the bickering.

please keep to the topic, and none of the i know better bullshit.
delphiandomine 88 | 18,163
19 Jan 2012 #352
Already reported, but I must say that I wonder too.

Nice one, mods. :)

That map posted was surreal - there's no way that 50-79% of Scots have blonde hair. Could it be the product of some very dubious research?
JonnyM 11 | 2,615
19 Jan 2012 #353
i know better bullshit.

This is after all a discussion forum, and it is good when people share their experiences. Sad though when the trolling starts.

That map posted was surreal - there's no way that 50-79% of Scots have blonde hair. Could it be the product of some very dubious research?

It could be the 'ciemny blondyn' thing again. I know people in PL with black hair, who have 'ciemny blondyn' written on their Identity Card.
modafinil - | 419
19 Jan 2012 #354
Already reported, but I must say that I wonder too.

He deserved a rap for what was #369. Guess he got p*ssed that JM was better read on the subject, otherwise, JM/DE was quite stimulating on the genesis thread.
delphiandomine 88 | 18,163
19 Jan 2012 #355
i and i imagine the forum are fed up with the bickering.

We're sick to death of it. At least now - we can get back to the normal left vs right wing arguments that used to prevail on here.

please keep to the topic, and none of the i know better bullshit.

Certainly - thank you for acting - it's appreciated :)

It could be the 'ciemny blondyn' thing again. I know people in PL with black hair, who have 'ciemny blondyn' written on their Identity Card.

Could be - I've noticed that people often write something completely weird on their dowód. My own wife has "grey" eyes - yet they're clearly blue. Never heard a good explanation from her yet as to why ;)
JonnyM 11 | 2,615
19 Jan 2012 #356
"grey" eyes - yet they're clearly blue.

The same with 'piwny'. Why beer-coloured and not brown?
jusia9 - | 36
19 Jan 2012 #357
he meant about the amount of the people here. Poland has almot 40milions of inhabitants and over 50% ( so over 20milions are blond) when origin three Scandinavians country which are : Denmark, Sweden and Norway has around 20 milions of inhabitants in total !!!!

Finns are not origin Scandinavians !! But you are right the highest % of is in Finland but not with the amount !!!
Harry
19 Jan 2012 #358
we can get back to the normal left vs right wing arguments that used to prevail on here.

You would say that: you Liberal!

As for all Poles being blonde and blue-eyed: there are three Polish women in my life and none of them have blonde hair or blue eyes.
tomekmoj - | 4
20 Jan 2012 #359
Poles do not have a certain look. We are a mixed people for example the north is more nordic looking you can say, the east more ukrainian, tatar or even turkish looking the south more dinaric looking like hungarians and the west is a mixture of it all. It is stupid to say a nation can have a certain look especially when most regions of poland have a different history and have been invaded by different groups of people and have mixed with them aswell. For example i have seen many blond haired blue eyed greeks when the stereotype of greeks is short, dark skin & eyes with black hair.
gumishu 13 | 6,134
20 Jan 2012 #360
Dark eyes and brown hair. If I would tell you that I'm Romanian or Turkish, you would probably believe it with no hesitation. My brother's children have blue eyes and are blond though.

I can easily go as an Afghani muslim when I grow my beard and get tanned - brown eyes and dark hair - must be some Armenian blood in my family


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