Genealogy / Polish Gypsy Roots & Roma ancestors in their families [205]

I dunno. I feel like most Polish people have darker features and brown/black hair. No joke out of 100 Polish people I probably see only 5 who are blonde but I see a fair bit who have very dark blonde/brown hair and dark eyes.

My dad has black hair, brown eyes, sorta pale skin.
My mum has Black hair, hazle eyes, olive skin
My sister has jet black hair, dark olive skin, dark eyes and other has dark brown hair, eyes, and pale/olive skin.
I have Dark hair, eyes, and dark skin

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

??? I've never met a pole with blonde hair blue eyes and I have met MANY. I've only met a few dirty blonde/light brown hair which is fairly common amount slavs.

Black/brown is the most prodiminant colour in all slavs and a lot tend to have darker features. these blonde ppl must be scandinvians or somthing

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

EASTERN. All this talk about picking out a pole in a bar full of Germans? ********. I've only met 3 poles with blonde hair. You can pick a slav a mile away.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

I gotta say. I really love these Slavic girls with Dark hair and blonde eyes!!!

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

Why do I never see any then!

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

Ok. Seriously, all the Poles I know except a small few have brown/black hair. Everywhere I look, I look on Polish TV, they all have brown/black hair unless dyed.

I know this is just one example but here:

I don't see any blondes?

I look at my family. some are dark some are paler but we all have dark hair. I look at the Polish communities, all dark hair and when I go to Poland. Same!

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

I have been to Poland 3 times

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

Whatever you say. Sorry I am actually gypsie and the hundreds of Poles I know are gypsies too!

History / What do Poles think about Turks? [761]

I like the Turks.

I read this and thought it was pretty cool:

"The contacts with Ottoman Turkey in the 17th century brought many new words, some of them still in use, e.g. jar (deep valley), szaszłyk (shish kebab), filiżanka (cup), arbuz (water melon), dywan (carpet), kiełbasa (sausage)"

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [656]

harrisonmcmanus your views are distorted. I would say most common colour is Brown, varying in all shades, but there's still fair bit of blonde, black etc. Whenever I go down to the local Polish Club, it is very hard to find somone with blonde hair and who fits in with your idea of what a typical pole looks like. I have noticed that we have All colours of eyes from brown, blue, hazel, green etc. We are certainly darker than the Germans lol

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

How do you figure philly boy since I find the most common hair colour in POland is brown. I have never seen a pole with Scandinavian / Nordic features only a few with German but that was because one of their parents was germ

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

Granpa I great points.

And Guest, who ever you are. No I do not. Even so why do you call them Gipsy, not Polish?

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Generally I'd say Polish people have that Eastern look that to any outsider looks very similar and looks "Eastern European" for example (Bulgarians, Polaks, Hrvats, Russians etc). People who are in this group of people I think can distinguish fairly well who is who, with that being said I think we do share the look with these other Slavs sometimes it's very noticeable sometimes it's not. Also people saying Poles are blonde pale etc, i've said this numerous times from all of the Poles I know the general haircolour is brown with the few occasions of black (very dark) and blonde (very light).

Life / Are there street gangs in Poland like in USA? [18]

As I heard there is a large Mafia presence in Poland with Pruszkow and Wolomin Mafia.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

"Is the eastern part of Poland where the dark hair and green/brown eyes come from?"

Wtf most poles have darker hair and brown/blue/green eyes wat i have seen. We are not from the mediteranian but we not like the germans or swedes....

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]


I agree 100%. I think polish people are darker than most east slavs, it's like we have a yellowish olivey skin tone naturally, noticed mostly brown hair/dark brown but a lot of dark blonde too.

You have to remember though Polish mixed with Tartars, romanians, ukranians, hungarians, sweeds, germans etc over the ages

Genealogy / Polish and Russian DNA? [52]

Not germans!! we are not close to german.

We share much more common dna too russia, bialorussia etc

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

When I mean dark I don't mean Mediterranean dark. I think Polish skin varies. All the polish people I know tan very well (except for the very pale ones). For example I have pale olive skin, my oldest sister has VERY dark olive skin and my other sister is light.

It then all depends on the region of Poland probably. I'd imagine South are most tanned/dark but then again my family and friends are from North Poland and still exhibit darker skin.

I do disagree on we have a similar complection as germans, we are darker then germans but i agree with you that we are darker than east slavs.

When I say swedes it's from polish-swedish wars but the impact wouldn't be much I guess then yes?

When you say Magyars don't share genetics with Poland I think this is not true, I can't find the link at the moment but there was talk that Hungarians share a very common genetic profile and we both have the highest incidence of R1 in europe (don't quote me on R1)

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


this

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


What are you talking about? We are slavs. We are eastern peoples. You're saying we are closer to the french than the russians? I think the term eastern europe should encompass all countries in the warsaw pact even if some are in European union.

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

youtube.com/watch?v=L_f7EFmXzeE&feature=related
good example of polish faces/colours. mostly darker hair colour. most looked fairly tanned.

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

It's not rare at all!