We don't hate Germans , we only hated the Nazis, the war is over, Then post war generation of Germans are not responsible for that dark period history, what annoys me are the apologists who try and stifle German pride. and wish to assimilate the nation into the greater EU republic, I saw Frau Merkel once try and stop the waving of the German flag.
The bad history is over we poles and Germans should move forward together.
I am speaking as a Pole and a son of a soldier of the Polish II Corps, He would want the new German/Polish generation live in peace.
I'm of Pomeranian descent, but grew up with English and German here in the States:-)
Bavarian are ya! I was in Muenchen and Berlin, from Berlin I traveled on to Szczecin aka Stettin to you, where I German woman I knew was anxious to visit.
While stereotypes DO die hard, many are well grounded in fact, among them, that Poles are distinctly "Slavic" in appearance, particularly around the jaw and facial bone structure!
geez! 'ALL" Poles being blond with blues eyes!!!! Another post written by a teenager! Poles have all kinds of colors of hairs and of eyes. Personally I'm still amazed at those Poles with litteraly black hair. Before that, I had seen (white) people with black hair only in Southern Spain, Portugal and Italy. In my "goodless" language, we don't even use the word 'black" for color of white people's hair (= implying that white people don't have black ) but strangely in Poland some do..... .
Since the last time I commented, I can say that I met more than 30 Poles this year who came for a school experience here in Germany. Only 5 of them were blonde and blue eyed. Some also had blue eyes but were not blonde. Don't think that having black hair makes you less Polish, it was really common among them. By the way, before seeing this forum, I have never thought that Poles are blonde and blue eyed, I thought that they were mostly brown haired and brown eyed, which is the most common as far as I have met. Anyway, Germans are usually brown haired with brown eyes too. Even Swedes have the same physical traits. I visited Sweden in march. I didn't pay too much attention but a minority of them were blonde and blue eyed, too.
Apart from some Kaszub admixture, while the majority of "ethnic" Poles may well be fair-haired and blue- or light-eyed, I've known Poles who have brown eyes (though never black in my experience) and coarse brownish hair, only their typically oval-shaped, lozenge-like faces and high cheekbones giving away the fact that they are Poles:-)
Actually no. What I meant is that Johnny may well have a blonde haired sister but his family are not Polish and so his comment isn't relevant. That is what you didn't understand.
Perhaps then a falsely blond one, Bobko? LOL Just kidding. Indeed, hair dye is more prevalent than many might think and the girls are starting ever so young too.
@jon, I'll give ol' Feniks the benefit of the doubt:-)
That is true and I don't have blonde hair either. However, I'm not that desperate for attention that I would lie and pretend to be a nationality I'm not.
Lying is a sin btw.
Blonde hair is so common in Poland
I've seen plenty of bottle blondes over there but not the real thing. Quite strange really.
Occasionally I'll be walking along the street and notice Caucasian female tourists with unusually extreme hair coloring, all too often with an almost reddish tinge. In most instances they're Europeans, more frequently than not, they'll be Poles!
