The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans

Milo I am 0% of a mongrel, 100% Slavic :))) Got my tests 9 or 10 months ago .Very proud ,but I like you, even as a mongrel LoL

Yes, we are Scythians - leafs of the Asian tree,
Our slanted eyes are bright aglow with greed.
Ages for you, for us the briefest space,
We raised the shield up as your humble lieges
To shelter you, the European race
From the Mongolians' savage raid and sieges.
marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1961/no006/blok.htm

I don't need to do the tests as I have my family tree going back over 200 years.........all Polish....but before that?
Who knows?
That is why I say we are all mongrels....... :-)

Genetically speaking, Czechs are a mixture of Slavs on one hand (about 51%) and Celto-German blood (major part of the rest) on the other or so does the Czech press say. These findings seem to be confirmed in the history: what is now Czechia was first inhabited by the Celts (hence its maedival name: Bohemia), then conquered by a Germanic tribe (weren't they Marcomans?) and finally Slavic people came and settled there.


I think it's not only "look", but probably something else as well, perhaps body and facial expression. I had a similar experience in London many years ago, at a time when there were very few Polish people from Poland in England. One black man who was trying to sell me a religious book said to me that I was Polish just after the few phrases I exchanged with him in the street.

At this point I am able recall the couple of my Dutch friends who came to visit us in Poland passing through Germany in their camper shortly after the German unification. They said they could never tell if someone was an Ossi or a Wessi while they were meeting them both on camp sites in Germany. But what used to amazed the Dutch couple most was that the native German man/woman was always right at guessing who a fellow German was: Wessi or Ossi. I wonder if this is still the case

perhaps he recognised your accent? Perhaps he also spoke Polish?

Their faces make me think they are at least 80% Slavs. 49% of Celto-Germanic blood is almost definitely exaggeration. But this is what I don't really know...

Quite likely. He didn't attempt to speak in Polish to me, however, and my British accent had not been so good at the beginning of my stay as it was at the end of it [these days it is as bad as never before :-( ].

He explained he recognised a Polish person in me "by my eyes".

it was probably because you guys have phobia about saying 'the' and 'a'

If the guy was a bit older and it was in West London he would probably have known Poles from the wartime generation.


LOL!..and that!

You mean I leave out the article, Roz???


Actually, the guy was in his twienties and the place was in central London, very close to the National Gallery.

Right you are, accent probably80% Than other superficial factors , hair, clothing , if in the 1960 or 70, look of a cornered ,untrusting animal, influence of UB , In the eyes of

Anglo- Saxon we the Poles supposed to be some dark sinister caricature of a white western European Makes me wonder why historically Polish women were addressed as BIALKA ,I suspect not for black hair ,dark brown complexion and slanted eyes .They the Anglo-Saxon-Western Europeans used this method for ages, to justified treatment of Slavic people

Germanic machine of propaganda and disinformation never sleeps .Divide and conquer.t his time on economic front. Goal remans the same

I can see the difference in 90% of cases. When i see a pole or russian i can tell in a second that he or she is slavic. Thats a simple fact. On the other hand dutch or danish look like we germans.

The strange thing is, that i dont know why i can spot a pole or russian. I simply know

I think Czech can be fully happy and proud of their 20% of Celto-Germanic blood. (If it makes them feel in this way.) There is no need for ultra-exaggeration... I've read that nowdays they are terribly crouch before any German tourists who visit them. They regard them as a heroes. While Russian-speaking tourists may remain unserved demonstratively.

Almost forgot about the evident Celtic admixture in the Poles!
Know a lady from Cracow who looks practically Irish, although she's a Cracovian many generations:-)

This is it! The Celts did inhabit the ancient region of Krakoa and some even say the famous mounds of Kraków must have been their work.

Quite.

This is not a big deal. But can you spot the difference between a Pole and a Russian or some other Slavic people?

My guess is that the slavic look is more pronounced with Russians than with Poles who mixed with other central western Europeans in a much bigger way because of the proximity.

Are there many Slavic people in Berlin? Do you meet them daily?

All of them! :)

On the other hand, the Russians mixed with the tribes of the East much more than the Poles. The percentage of the R1a haplogroup which is believed to be 'Slavic' is the highest among Poles except for the relatively small group of the Sorbian-speaking Sorbs in Lusatia where the percentage is even higher.

I don't really believe in the so-called "Slavic look". For example, Weimarer who gave the link to his picture on another website may as well be taken for a Pole or a Russian. True, there are some distinctly looking types among, for example, Italians or French or Greeks. But in my view, this is not the case for Germans or Poles. There are also such distinct types among the Dutch or the English in northern England.

@Vlad1234

No, polish and russians looks similar for me.

I think you are right BB.
Poles are Slavs but also much more "Central European" in so many ways,plus they mixed more,with Germans,Austrians and Hungarians especially.

Hey, now I know why my left eye is brown and left blue. I must be a mixture.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum

In 13-th century Mongols crushingly defeated united German-Polish-Czech army of knights in the Battle of Legnica.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Legnica
So, if you hope German admixtures are better, I wish you a good luck... (JOKE!).
And Finno-Hungarian blood, I suspect, helps to withstand a cold weather. What I believe is an asset.

Mixture is always an asset.
Inbreeding is not.

No way Russians tend to look different than Poles. They have flatter faces for one. Poles look closer to Czechs, slovaks, serbs, lithuanians and some ukrainians. Russians look a bit different.

Was it you, by any chance who invented the truth.?