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Polish looks? [1410]
LOL Zeti, the moment I saw the title of your thread I remembered that I wondered about the same thing when I was reading one Russian forum - Russians were asking questions about Poles and Poland as if we were some aliens living on Mars :D And they are our fellow Slavs! lol
The only difference, I think, was that they were genuinely curious. My impression is that here foreigners rather state things, even when they "inquire" about something (usually to complain about sth :)) - "Poland is a nation of criminals?" xD).
Probably because there's no Polish look in fact.
Maybe there is, who knows :) Although I wonder if we're that easily distinguishable from other Slavs - taking only looks into account and not clothes, make up?
There is something like Slavic look, Scandinavian look, "Latino" look. Even the French look a bit different than Poles, I've noticed more dark hair and a bit darker skin shade when I was in Paris.
But that's of course the "typical look" :) I don't look typically "Polish", for example :)
When I was in Hamburg with my friends we were at some restaurant and we were sitting next to elderly Germans. We were talking in Polish, but they thought we're Italian lol (probably because of our names - Paulina, Karolina, etc.). There were four of us - I have brown hair, my friend - blond and blue eyes, and the other two - dark brown hair and eyes, and naturally curly red hair and light colour eyes - and we were all Polish :)
And there are also Americans! You can tell them apart even from the Europeans! I had a Polish-Canadian teacher once and she was sooo American! xD
And as far as fashion style is corncerned - you can see the difference even in the news of each country in the way presenters are dressed and what hair styles they have - I have BBC World News, RTR Planeta (Russian), some French news channel, American, and of course TVN 24 (Polish). American style is quite different form the French, for example. I would say the way they dress women in TVN 24 resembles French the most. We all know how American presenters look like :) And the BBC style is... erm... British, I suppose :) I've noticed more than once that Russian female presenters have "Slavic" hair styles and every and each of these presenters is beautiful :)