The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans

They have always been the smallest part of the european makeup, doesn't mean extinction though....only less visibility.

Again, it's the cubic head, usually high cheekbones, and often light, almost slightly Asiatic-looking eyes particularly when they smile, which appear most "typically" Polish.

Czechs don't usually look like this, having often broader, more Western-European, i.e. "Germanic" faces:-)

Where are the moderators ,may I ask? Straight from the Nazi propaganda , but lot worst .Like smell of rotting carcasssuk!*syn drifted from Random Chat, after posting most

vile anti Polish piece of propaganda. In my mind I can clearly see this miserable SOB in Oswiecim measuring the skulls of murdered victims, arm In arm with Mengele

It is 21 century 70 years after Nazism and this caricature of a human being. is dividing people by the shape of their eyes cheekbones as Germanic ,or Polish , or favorite Nazi description as Asiatic read (Mongol) look. .Don" forget typical Nazi trick of dividing and conquering in this case drawing distinction between Poles and Cheech

Polish Mongol - Czech German

Some Polish people are tall, some are of medium height or short. Some are slender, some are of medium built or stout. Some have blonde or brown hair but there are also people with naturally black hair. It all depends and due to people migration you can't say that a certain look belongs to a given part of the country.

Some people 'look Polish' to me. Some don't.
But there's no one certain look that I'd say is typically Polish.
And take it from someone who actually lives here.
A video from a concert commemorating the Warsaw Uprising. Have a look both at the historical footage as well as the artists and the audience and tell me again about a typical Polish look.

youtu.be/mqdgz-_7iN0

It would be interesting to know for me if Poles can spot any visible difference between Polish and Ukrainian appearance. Now there should be plenty of Ukrainians in Poland...

In most cases -not really.
I can usually tell someone is Ukrainian and a newcomer to Poland (assuming they don't say anything) by the way they sometimes dress or by other circumstances (a group of men doing shopping together etc).

Some look 'more Eastern' to me, some don't.

Nutrition ,diet , have got lot more to do with your bone structure, than your genes There is striking difference between children born in u USA and their parents born

in Poland.
My father, 100% Polish 195 cmm wzrostu ,blond hair. blue eyes carbon copy of Bjorn Borg, how is that for typical?, Any talk of typical is rubbish

For sure, many Northern Europeans on the whole seem to appear physically healthier than their US counterparts:-)
Diet is also a factor, perhaps not for issues such as eye color or hair texture, but it is a fact that countries in which

inhabitants drink milk, for example, have a meat and dairy intake, will in general be taller than those which don't.

Jews from the shtettls were indeed much smaller in bone mass, not to mention shorter in stature than non-Jewish Poles,
Germans or Ukrainians, including those from the cities.

What difference? We are the same people


What do you mean Eastern? Don't operate in generality , you have something on your mind or just blowing smoke up my ......

The most visible difference would be a hairstyle of Ukrainian men, and somewhat exaggerated make up of a [mid age] Ukrainian women. There are also differences in face expressions. However, all of this diminishes after few years of living in Poland and the only thing that stays is the accent

I would except your answer as honest attempt ,to clarify but I doubt your sincerity, because ,previously in Random Chat you posted same nonsensical anti Polish peace

of propagandas as in your resent post. Probably copy from some book of Hitler era

Anti-Polish? Moi??
:-)

@Przelotnyptak1
Why don't you calm down?

As I have said before Polish people come in different shapes and sizes. We have different hair and eye colour. But there are certain things that make me think some people 'look Polish'. I'm not going to try to define them as they're probably based on my general perception -some features seem more familiar to me but it's not like all Polish people come from the same mould.

Take my great grandparents - my great grandmother was tall and slender with almost whitish blonde hair. Her husband was shortish with dark hair and eyes. My grandma was about 155 cm tall while some of her brothers were as tall as 180 cm or so. All brought up in a poor prewar village - I doubt they had a nutritious diet so yes, genes do matter. She gave birth to two sons in a labour camp - both grew to be about 180 cm tall despite the circumstances.

As far as my looks are concerned, I probably wouldn't fit into the definitions given by certain posters here - yet it has happened to me on several occasions that people abroad (both Poles and foreigners ) simply guessed I was Polish.

@others
There were malnutritioned people in different regions and ethnicities throughout Poland before the war.

I would agree that there is not a general "Polish look",but I can tell some Poles from 100 metres away.
I remember an incident when I was about 10 years old and sitting next to my Dad,who was driving the car.
After staring at a family that I instinctively knew were Polish,I turned and saw my Dad smiling and looking at me.
He asked me why I was staring at that family....he knew.....and asked me if it was because I thought they might be Polish.

I was shocked......it was as if he had read my mind......I answered that,yes,that was why I was staring at them.
He just said,"You are right,they are"......and carried on driving.....

My experience was the opposite .people were guessing I was an American and I am 100% Polish, so I insist ,white European can be of any European nationality, except for southern Europe. Rest of it is rubbish

I am 100% Polish too and I can't hide......most people can tell,even non Poles.

I think majority of Ukrainians would be thankful you for this. I would expect on average Ukrainians should be remarkably darker than Poles. But maybe this is not so visible in the case of Ukrainians from the Western regions of Ukraine.

I am no expert on Ukrainians as we don't have many in London.
But the ones I have met look more Russian than anything else.

@Przelotnyptak1
I have a right to have an opinion based on my experience and circumstances. Thank you.
So to sum up, as much as we look different there are certain things that make me believe someone is Polish whereas someone else looks more Eastern European (Ukranian or Russian).

And that is based on what I see on everyday basis in Poland.
As much as our society was ethically diverse before the war, there were different influences in Poland and in Russia. There were different peoples living in different regions of what is now Poland, Ukraine or Russia.

As for being European, it's obvious that lots of people just look European and it's hard to guess their nationality. And that applies to southern Europeans as well just like not all Italians look like an average Italian from an American film.

@Vlad1234
Not really. Most Ukrainians I have met have similar complexion, hair and eye colours to Poles. Newcomers usually speak little Polish, sometimes dress differently than Poles but there's a lady who owns a small shop at a local market who has been living here for years -and if it wasn't for her accent (slightly more melodic and softer ) you wouldn't guess she's not Polish - medium height and built, blonde hair and an oval face like and unlike many other women in Poland.

Maybe we should widen this discussion.....we could argue that there is a Slavic look,some Ukrainians and Russians do share some similarites to Poles.From my experience, especially women.....don't know why especially women....just an observance.

Certainly there are many blond Ukrainians and light haired as well, but plenty have dark hair and eyes too. I would expect this is due to some Balkan admixtures (what includes Hungarians and Romanians), Turkic people and maybe even Iranian people (Scythian, Sarmatian). Greeks and Armenians were/are also common in Southern parts of Ukraine. According to some genetic research I2 haplogroup is common in Ukraine and origin of this haplogroup is on Balkans.

And that is the point isn't it.
We are all mongrels to varying degrees.

I'm not sure really. As for blonde hair, sometimes it's hard to say who is a natural blonde and who's not.
As for the lady in question, I know a lot of Polish women who look kind of similar to her and lots who don't.

As for Ukrainians in Poland, I usually come across men - usually construction workers you pass on your way to work or groups of them doing shopping together.

Generally speaking, there are West and East Slavs. For example Ruthenians, Hutsuls or Lemkos lived in what is now eastern Poland or Ukraine. There are Polish people with Ruthenian roots, just like with German, Dutch, Scottish, Greek etc.

After the war a lot of people from eastern Poland were moved to western Poland. They mixed with locals not to mention previous or later migrations. A lot of Polish people were forced to stay in the USSR and so on.

Interstingly enough, the man who first started to describe Hutsuls was a Pole of Italian origin.
Or the case of Polish children taken from their parents during WW2 as they were thought to look Aryan enough to be adopted by Germans - it affected thousands of people.

You are right,its not clean cut or straight forward,we are all a bit of a mixture....

@Vlad1234
But there are a lot of Polish people with dark hair and eyes. Not to mention, South Slavs.
Look up Abelard Giza, a Polish comedian who often jokes about his foreign looks. Another guy from the same comedy group is tall with blondish /reddish curly hair. Honestly, they look Polish enough to me.

You like most of hetero men, pay more detailed attention to women than men , that's whereespecially comes from.
Ukrainians if you look from historic perspective are ,mostly descendants of Polish peasants escaping oppression ,almost slavery, into the wild east ,,sparsely inhibited area Polskie,Dzikie Pola

@Przelotnyptak1, you probably didn't quite understand my Random posts:-) Try putting them through Google Translator once again and see what you
come up with. If that doesn't work, I mail you privately in Polish and then we'll be on the same homepage, I'm sure.

My comment is not about what you wrote, but how. I mean, how neatly and with perfect punctuation. No, I am not trying to be patronizing. Guys, learn form the ladies.

You are absolutely right... And it makes me wonder quite a lot why Polish govt. still didn't issue Polish passports to all the Ukrainians... Well, some exam for basic knowledge of Polish, Polish history and oath of allegiance to Poland may apply.