The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans

Apparently Polish noses are often quite long, I have one.

You don't look Polish.Like someone already said you look like southern European from (IMO) Balkans (Albania,Bosnia,etc) .

you look Polish meaning you wouldn't really stand out in Poland

Yep, pretty much just like any other native European.

I can agree with that.


Some Pole's do have long noses while others don't, I do not have a long nose.

As a pole I will be the first to tell you that when it comes to hair and eye colour, there is no typical look We poles come in all different shades of hair from really black to really blonde. I am from around Krakow so I will tell you there are more brunettes here than in northern Poland. Personally I am polish and have black hair and eyes with a yellowish skin tone. Many poles however do have a beer blonde hair that becomes ruddy or brownish as the person matures. Poles are known to sometimes have very dark hair, and very light eyes. I see this a lot.

Now for the typical features that really make a person look polish. Every pole that I have seen has a dominant forehead. This is the same for me. This feature gives the impression that our forehead hangs over our eyes. The great majority of polish people have round broad faces with squarish chins. Often the chin carries a cleft, a trait dominant amongst west Slavs. High pronounced cheek bones is also very dominant trait amongst us poles. Poles also have different noses. One nose that is very prominent is very high browed nose which tends to be large and curves upward on the tip. Another nose that I see often in Poland is the straight middle browed nose. Usually it tends to be slightly wide with flaring nostrals. Some noses like my own contain a pronounced ball at the tip. In general however poles can have any type of nose, even though they are more wider with flaring nostrils than western counterparts.

Polish people can have any height or stature, but most are slightly taller than most. This is a generalization, as I find myself taller than 90 percent of my family, even at the age of 15. Oh and yes, I almost forgot, our eyes are always almond shaped, never round.

Poles are the strangest race of people. Enough said!

Dubs 1970... we are all creatures so I don't see any reason to talk about race, do you?

Most Poles whom I've met in general have oval-shaped faces, albeit eye color isn't always uniform. Normally, I can pretty much point out Poles I see on the streets of Forest Hills, and usually nail it each time (even before they say anything)-:)

Russian faces tend to be less sculptured and finely chiseled. Then too, there's considerable Germanic in the Polish make-up, therefore, "pure" Slavic they're definitely not. Sure, one can draw certain parallels between, say, the face of the late Pope John Paul and Jarek Kaczyński etc..., yet looking at Władimir Putin, I'd NEVER take him for a Pole if I'd never seen him prior!

I DO though often confuse Poles for certain Ukrainians.

Poles, furthermore, unlike Czechs, Croats or other Western and Southern Slavs, can sometimes have almost an Asiatic cast to their features, i.e. the high cheekbones etc. Moreover, there has been detected even a distant Celtic admixture, also defining a homogeneity to the Polish physiognymy:-)

Can someone help me?
Is small almond eyes and curly hair a Polish or Jewish trait?
Is that possible that I have Jewish DNA?
I don't have any Jewish roots but in my family when we have curly hair we have almond eyes
What is this..Why they are so small
Can I have SSA blood?
I'm Polish living in Poland, native Polish
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Small brown almond eyes and curly hair
it passed through my great-grandmother , grandma but later no one had them and again I have curly hair and almond eyes (not the bigger ones)

I didn't even knew this is typicaly Germanic make up (click to enlarge):

Isthatu-yes but people do have a choice to put the crap in their mouths,it is still far cheaper to eat healthily than eat procesed fast food style junk

Actually, it is FAR more expensive in the US to eat healthier!! You guys shouldn't speak on things you don't know firsthand! ! I'm sure moat of you have never been to the US, ate just repeating what you have "seen" or heard!

I am of Eastern European lineage on my Mother's side. Most of the women in our family are slender and tall with an Austrian style jaw bone and ski jump nose. My Austrian/ Polish Great Grandmother was highly intelligent and my Grandfather graduated second in his class at The Coast Guard Academy. Both my Great Grandmother and my Grandfather were short and slender with blue eyes and adorable noses, square jaw lines and had the ability to compute mathematical equations in their heads effortlessly. People on my Mothers side often live to be in their nineties most likely from all of the physical work that they did and unprocessed diets.

Took from one ethnic forum. Translated by the translator. copy-paste = deleted.

I've been told I look Polish. I'm second generation in the US and my mothers side of the family comes from Poland(grandparents) and my father who is American is of both Polish and Irish descent. My family immigrated in the 1930s and 1940s. My eyes are green and blue.

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you definitely wouldn't stand out in Poland - but as far as I can tell you could as well pass for a German or a Czech

You wouldn't stand out in Ireland either.....you have the look of a young Jagger.. a bit x

He wouldn't stand out in Poland, or maybe a little bit as there's also something rather un-Polish about his looks.

Funny he looks Polish in America, but would not look so typically Polish in Poland in my view. Btw, a long time ago when there were hardly any Polish people walking in the streets of London, I was approached in London by a certain non-white man who told me I was Polish (I didn't utter a word that could potentially identify me as a non-English even if my accent at that time was fairly close to the one of a native speaker). When I exclaimed - 'How did you know?', he said - 'By the look of your eyes' or something like that.

Amazing, wasn't it? That means there is something in our looks that can give us away. Roz, do you perhaps know what sort of haplogroups Mick Jagger carries in his genome?

ha ha funnily enough I checked it out, apparently he is all English, although I am sure Jagger is not an English name, nor are his looks 'typically' English (whatever that is)

The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans.

Look abstracted from millions of people and stereotyped?

I know one thing I did get from the Irish side is my height. I'm 5'5. My grandfather from Poland was 6'4.

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People mention my eyes and cheek bones. I've heard as time goes on you start to look like different generations of your family. Wether or not that's true I don't know.

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You look Tatar

My grandfather was tall, blonde hair, blue eyes, kind of squinty for lack of a better word and somewhat slanted. My moms are the same as his. Do you have info on the Kurek family? History wise.

I'm talking centuries back when it comes how far back I want to look. I know my family didn't leave Poland up until the 1930s, 1940s, I know there were Jews in our family.

Son, what ethnicity is USA>? Is there one? Poland was like USA for more than half of her history. Meaning that on elements of Tatars, Armenians, Germans, Dutch, French, Italian, Gypsy, Jewish, including all nearby Slavic components have the right to be in your DNA and your ancestors could rightly and proudly call themselves Poles.

There is no 'typical: Polish look alas some would point out that bird-like (eagle like) noses, prominent cheekbones blue eyes and brown hair plus few others details are just that mythical 'Polish look' - personally I don't think such a thing exist.

Not to mention that the language you speak shape your features as different set of muscles are used for different languages.
If your ancestors are Polish then look Polish - what is the problem?

I would definitely agree with that, but your hair and lips do not look Polish (or typically Polish). I would definitely say there is something 'foreign' in your looks, though at the same time there is a lot of outstandingly 'Polish' in it.


Roz, I am amazed that they may publish Mick Jagger's haplogroups on the internet ;-) I would agree with you that Mick doesn't look typically English, for me he looks more a southern type than 'English', although there is something very English in him as well. But maybe it is also beacause "the language he speaks shaped his features" profoundly and even more profoundly they were shaped by the language he sings. If 'Jagger' is not an English name, what name is it?

By the way, in the north of England I could clearly distinguish three types of faces. An English friend of mine living there has a face belonging to one of those type and Tony Blair's face is exactly of the same type. On the other hand, there is a type which I call the 'Anglo-Saxon' type, probably more 'Anglo' than 'Saxon', and which is much less common in the north than in the south of England. Those people are usually tall, while the 'Tony Blair' type is not so tall. The English people whom I asked did not notice those differences and they were just laughing at my observations. This makes me think that a visitor to a country is able to see more details and differences in the looks of members of an indigenous population than someone of their own tribe because the foreigner hasn't been so used to their looks from the moment of his birth.

I know my family was head of state and I've been told we were royalty and though I knew that I wanted to dig deep into my roots and found history dating back as far as the 12th century. We are apart of a Polish-Lithuanian dynasty. Very interesting. The Kureks. A lot of our money caused my family to lose a lot of their money in the US.

I would say looks depend on the region of Poland you're from. Some have even asked me if I'm Russian.

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Rather unlikely. The Jagiellonian dynasty (the Polish-Lithuanian one that you indicate) died out on Sigismund II Augustus (1520 - 1572). The last of the Jagiellons married three times, remained childless, and through the Union of Lublin (1569) introduced an elective monarchy.

I knew that the royalty died out when Poland was no longer ruled by a king, but if what you say is true were you able to find info on the Kureks? And I also stated before most of our money was lost in the Great Depression in the US, though after World War II I had family return and still have family there. Where can I find more info?