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Polish looks? [1462]
do i look Polish? im half Polish but i have no idea what sort of Pole i might look like.
According to me, you look like people from the south, from the mountains. You look like an Austrian with Italian and Hungarian blood (many real Austrians from the Sud Tirol, that mixed with Italians and/or Hungarians look exactly like you).
I know many of them.
i think all eastern europeans look alike. not ALIKE as in they all look the same, just that they all have the same features. it doesnt matter if they are polish, russian, slovak, yugoslavian, bulgarian , even albanian they all have that same look.
Nope ! Their size was diffrent for exemple ! Today, all youngsters are growing and growing, you can't regognize their origin from the size, but 50 years ago, Poles were taller than Russians, Bielorussians and Ukrainians, probably because they are more Germanic. In the baltic countries, they were/are taller because of their nordic, scandinavian roots.
In the mountains, in every country, people have darker hair (ie in Austria, in the high Alpes, they are rather brown (the rest of the austrian population is much clearer), the same in France, etc... In the mountains, the natural inhabitants have brown hair, with brown eyes because the excess of sun and white light is compensated by a higher production of melatonin (which is darkening your skin, eyes and hair). The same in the Carpates. They are definitively darker.
There is one real distinctive sign of slavic roots (not the almond eyes, for ex. Italians and Germans have them as well - Etrusc / asian heritage) or the high cheeks (other european populations have them too): the straits eyebrows, even pointing up at the end (have a look on Mr. Spock from Star Trek Voyager) and the half Russian/British girl in the black dress on the picture. In Ukrain, almost everybody have this "slavic" eyebrows, sign they were less invaded/mixed with foreigners than the Poles (which is hisorically true).
Another real specificity is the "flat" head.
Someone said that girls in Poznan look like Ukrainians. Today YES, but not so much before the 2d WW. Eastern Poles were massively relocated to Poznan and Wroclaw and Szczecin from Lwow etc... from ex eastern polish territories, right after the WW2, because germans killed so many Poles there and they needed workers for factories implanted there, after germans left (some of them in Poland since the 18th century).
It's was very clear, in the streets of Poznan (on old pictures) in the 50-ies, 60-ies, half of them were looking rather german, nordic, or just Polish from, half rather ukrainian, bielorussian, smaller, more oriental, more triangular faces with "deep" almond eyes, asian cheeks, strait thin hair.
