Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde?

I am from Munich, Bavaria, but I have an Austrian grandmother(my mother's mom) and my paternal grandmother is from Sweden :) Also, one of my grandparents is German from Transylvania and came here after WW2. I am so mixed. :)) And you?

"do Poles still hate Germans?"

We don't hate Germans , we only hated the Nazis, the war is over, Then post war generation of Germans are not responsible for that dark period history, what annoys me are the apologists who try and stifle German pride. and wish to assimilate the nation into the greater EU republic, I saw Frau Merkel once try and stop the waving of the German flag.

The bad history is over we poles and Germans should move forward together.

I am speaking as a Pole and a son of a soldier of the Polish II Corps, He would want the new German/Polish generation live in peace.

@Mirten,

I'm of Pomeranian descent, but grew up with English and German here in the States:-)

Bavarian are ya! I was in Muenchen and Berlin, from Berlin I traveled on to Szczecin aka Stettin to you, where I German woman I knew was anxious to visit.

While stereotypes DO die hard, many are well grounded in fact, among them, that Poles are distinctly "Slavic" in appearance, particularly around the jaw and facial bone structure!

geez! 'ALL" Poles being blond with blues eyes!!!! Another post written by a teenager! Poles have all kinds of colors of hairs and of eyes. Personally I'm still amazed at those Poles with litteraly black hair. Before that, I had seen (white) people with black hair only in Southern Spain, Portugal and Italy. In my "goodless" language, we don't even use the word 'black" for color of white people's hair (= implying that white people don't have black ) but strangely in Poland some do..... .

Care to tell us who you on about? because the OP said all the Poles he met were blond with blue eyes not that all the Poles are like that.

@InPolska

Since the last time I commented, I can say that I met more than 30 Poles this year who came for a school experience here in Germany. Only 5 of them were blonde and blue eyed. Some also had blue eyes but were not blonde. Don't think that having black hair makes you less Polish, it was really common among them. By the way, before seeing this forum, I have never thought that Poles are blonde and blue eyed, I thought that they were mostly brown haired and brown eyed, which is the most common as far as I have met. Anyway, Germans are usually brown haired with brown eyes too. Even Swedes have the same physical traits. I visited Sweden in march. I didn't pay too much attention but a minority of them were blonde and blue eyed, too.

Dirty / Ash blonde hair

Brown - Blue - Hazel eyes

Apart from some Kaszub admixture, while the majority of "ethnic" Poles may well be fair-haired and blue- or light-eyed, I've known Poles who have brown eyes (though never black in my experience) and coarse brownish hair, only their typically oval-shaped, lozenge-like faces and high cheekbones giving away the fact that they are Poles:-)

Lot's of coping and people who need to buy glasses in this thread. Majority of Poles are brunettes and have light eyes.

Many Poles are indeed often natural blonds. However, I know numerous brown-haired, brown-eyed Poles.

I've not met a single Pole with natural blonde hair yet.
Most common hair colour I've seen is light brown and many have light blue eyes.

My sister who is 100% Polish does.

There Feniks, you see?

Often blonde in sumner but not winter.

Quite a few people are 'honey blonde' or 'strawberry blonde'.

There's even people in PL with black hair who describe themselves rather oddly as 'dark blonde'.

Weird.

I've not seen strawberry blonde though and red hair doesn't appear to be that common.


I see but unfortunately you don't.

Oh quit being so rude Big Shot.


Absolutely Lyzko.
Poles are more likely to be born blonde, go bald and have freckles.
Feniks is an ex-pat to Poland and wouldn't know this.

Let's have some data.... a video walk in Wrocław from last year....

Some blondes, more brunettes....

youtube.com/watch?v=BkALBcakj2s

There will be some tourists but mostly you hear Polish....

Don't mind Feniks. He's just being a classic contrarian.
Might as well call him Gregory!

I think Feniks is simply sharing their own experience which may differ from yours or mine.

And dark hair is more common than blond in PL. Among ladies, dye is very common.

Actually no. What I meant is that Johnny may well have a blonde haired sister but his family are not Polish and so his comment isn't relevant. That is what you didn't understand.

Never met a truly blonde Pole in my life, and I met certainly over 100 Poles.

Perhaps then a falsely blond one, Bobko? LOL
Just kidding. Indeed, hair dye is more prevalent than many might think and the girls are starting ever so young too.

@jon,
I'll give ol' Feniks the benefit of the doubt:-)

Poles are often blond as small children, then their hair darkens.

Lots of children are born tow headed, that's right.

Oh but we are maf, 100% Polish.
You are the one that is not 100% Polish which gives you an extreme inferior complex.


That is what I posted above
My sister is the only one out of all of our Polish relatives that is a natural dishwater blonde.

Blonde hair is so common in Poland that many girls dye their hair other colours.
The reverse is true in UK and USA.

That is true and I don't have blonde hair either. However, I'm not that desperate for attention that I would lie and pretend to be a nationality I'm not.

Lying is a sin btw.


I've seen plenty of bottle blondes over there but not the real thing. Quite strange really.

Me neither.


So is judging others
Confucius say, "Polish girl with blonde hair have black hair by cracky". :-)

Occasionally I'll be walking along the street and notice Caucasian female tourists with unusually extreme hair coloring, all too often with an almost reddish tinge. In most instances they're Europeans, more frequently than not, they'll be Poles!

You come up to people with red hair and ask them where they are from?