The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans

Nikta Im very sure you're not an ugly dork... no matter where you were born. Possibly there is some truth in becoming 'Americanised', but I think you should celebrate your differences as thats part of what makes you special and unique. If anything, I'm jealous of anyone with visible Polish heritage as my Polish friends and my boyfriend are all gorgeous.

As for being able to guess nationalities, come visit London, we'll go to a bar, and pick ten random people and I'll guess their nationalities; for each one I get wrong, I'll buy you a drink, and each one I get right, you can buy me one :) Hopefully you'll leave being proud of any Polishness in your appearance

Hi your post really amused me . You have said what i always wondered. Both my parents were polish but i was born in the uk, my mother small and dark haired, my father tall and blond. I always wondered if i looked foreign. my husband who is english reckons i do but when i tell new friends my ancestry they are very surprised. I am 5' 6" very blonde hair very blue eyes and luckily have the high cheekbones (hidden under fat lol) i also am sturdily built i will be never a size zero but have the typical hour glass figure of bust waist and child bearing hips.

by the way a diet of pirogi vodka and krufka dont help...........polish people are gorgeous

i can do that too, but its not only about their looks is it, its also down to their dress sense and accent.

you people are some kind of race freaks...

in today's europe, you will not find any nation racially homogenous...for 1000's of years people in europe have been mixing...

Its definitely their clothing, but not always their accent... I sometimes drive around with my boss and for entertainment I'll spot people walking along and try and guess their nationality. I love that even though we're all human, there are so many different varieties of race and appearances. Possibly thats the attraction of identical twins, triplets etc; we're used to seeing everyone as individuals so to see mirror images of people is amazing.

Sometimes I like to think what attributes a child would inherit from myself and my partner. I suspect s/he would be short (I'm 159cm and he's 161cm) but would s/he have my eyes, or his? His build or mine? etc Its a nice thing to imagine sometimes (although I have no desire to find out yet!)

Hi all,

Firstly, I was delighted in finding this forum yesterday and I find most posts informative and well thought out.

I have also pondered the question of whether there is a Polish look - my father is Polish and my mother is Croatian. We are descended from the Tatars. I still have a slight 'slant' to my eyelids, which was very prominent when I was young. Old photos of dad's family have similar characteristics. On several occasions I have been picked as a Pole by complete strangers. I have been mistaken for the brother of a cricketer of Polish descent. I take it then that my features can be considered "Polish" if that can be said.

In my view (empirical) certain characteristics can be ascribed generally. Strangely, I reckon a flat back of the head from the nape to the crown is usually indicative. Look at profile photos, particularly from WW2. In many cases, full lips and high cheekbones are also indicative, as are small, swept back ears and high foreheads. I have no idea when it comes to body type though.

Of course, the look will be determined by genealogy, but wouldn't a study of features be fascinating that traced persons who had available a known gene pool and historic paintings/photos. Cheers

HELLO, my name Euzebiusz and i am in Wroclaw.

I came across forum today, and it is very good! interesting subject. i am quite dark, with green eyes, and a small build with strong shoulders. my friends call me MUZYN, but i do not like the name. do you think I am Tartar??? My family all looks very white, blonde!

Could anyone answer and know?
Thank you girls and guys!

From my observations polish girls look far more similar to each other than girls from other slavic ethnicities.It is easy to tell them apart.I also believe that mix with other ethnicities in Poland was very restricted(I do not know why) in comparison to what happened in other slavic countries.That is why I am sure gene diversity in polish population is limited and most Poles share the same genes.
Maybe the evolution promoted the survival of the fittest and most beautiful girls who know comprise the bulk of polish girls.

No, you're a murzyn.

Why do laugh? i ask serious question!

Time to correct you......I am of russian blood...an eastern slav, that now lives in america. The picture you post looks like many people I see in western Europe as well as America..I take it you don't travel as often as i do, or you would notice the obesity in europe...and South Africa...and Middle East.

Also, i am sensitive to the fact many of my friends around the world suffer from Hypothyroid disorder. In other words, they gained 10-30 kilos in a month because their metabolism and body temperature was that of a dead person. Do you know that even after 2-3 years, some of them are still having their doctors adjust medications to try and get their bodies to work correctly. And it depresses them extremelly. I am an emotional person, so I feel offended by that picture because I know how that would make my friends with hypothyroid disorder feel. imagine...eating nothing every day and not being able to lose any weight.

As far as Russia, if you think there are no obese people there...maybe you should come there and visit one time.

they let Russians post on this site?

things are getting out of hand

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How funny...I found this page researching Tartar facial features.

I am American. My grandfather on my mother's side came over from Lithuania in the 1880s. My great-grandfather on my father's side came over from a tiny town right on the Poland-Russia border in the 1890s. Here in NY we have large Lithuania, Russian and Polish communities, but only the Russians seem to see something familiar in my face. I've been on the subway several times only to have a Russian ex-pat come up to me and start asking me questions in Russian. That's never happened with folks from Lithuania or Poland.

And when I travelled in Russia a few years ago, not only did I feel like I "fit in" completely, but people would just start talking to me, not realizing I wasn't local. It was fun and kind of sweet, knowing that whatever my life is like here in NY (I'm a journalist and photographer), my DNA still comes from somewhere else far, far away, and I could have a connection to that place whenever I want it.

theres a girl I work with and I swear she is of that group. she is dark and claims all
Polish.. last name is Polish too..

I'm wondering if I have Tatar ancestry down the road. I put two of my pictures on a website which shows which celebrities you resemble. On both pics I got almost all Asian celebrities.

Easternslav is correct - hypothyroidism is rampant in many families, and in my mother's side.
Part of the issue is that they treat Hypothyroidism on a BELLCURVE, since the '70s. Before that, they'd give you the dessicated thyroid until you felt better. Today's dosage is at least half of what it was, out of fear of causing heart attacks; it never caused them! This single lack of proper treatment I believe has contributed to morbid obesity, Fibromyalgia, CFS, and created a way for the drug companies to make BILLIONS of bucks per year.

How much does it cost if you treat it yourself, with dessicated thyroid each month? $20!

I have the light olive skin, btw, unless I choose to obtain a suntan. After seeing girls in their 20s turn into wrinkled old ladies within a few years, I chose to stop tanning, and pleased with that simple life change, along with using sunblock.

I also have dark brown hair, 5'6" tall, with slim build, but busty. Many of my friends from Hungary and Poland seem to be naturally top heavy, so mostly separates when purchasing clothes. Brooches are a girl's best friend, too!

Actually, there is a bit of bogus information floating around here.

Generally speaking, Slavic peoples tend to be fairer complexioned than Germanic peoples. Records dating from the 6th century onwards, written by Arab merchants traveling throughout Europe, that make particular note of the prevalence of blondism, fair skin and blue (and green) eyes among the Slavs. This was probably one reason why Slavs were captured and used as servants in places such as Moorish Spain. This isn't, of course, Slavs don't have a natural tan skin tone (where natural tan is a step above fair). However, Germanic peoples have a higher prevalence of dark features (hair, eyes, skin, sometimes described as swarthy). In fact, this was one reason why Benjamin Franklin wanted to restrict German immigration to the US. Almost all of Europe, though, save for the southernmost and northernmost parts where skin tone is darker, fall within 1-10 on the von Luschan scale.

DaveInCal, basing your conclusion on the fact that the last five Miss Polonias were brunettes is erroneous. Many things factor into who is selected: the current fashion (brown-eyed brunettes are in fashion now; take the Brazilians as an example), what is considered more exotic in a given country (I'm not Polish, but when I visit my wife's family, they are always fascinated with my very dark eyes, precisely because they are unusual. Oddly enough, my wife's big blue eyes are what caught my attention first, even though in Poland she received no particular compliments for them, since over there, they are a dime a dozen).

Liza, Swedes don't age very well. I offer my mother's side as an example.

queenlush, I am not sure why your friends were surprised. Those characteristics are quite common in Poland, where women tend to have high cheekbones (and men tend to have chiseled faces). Didn't you know the Brits travel to Krakow for the slender long legs and torsos? That and because you don't have to take out a mortgage to pig out on beer and vodka like you do in London.

Colour is not important.For example the Finns are far lighter than the Hungarians although they have common ancestry.This is because the Finns migrated to the North where the sun shines less.
What is important is the facial characteristics like nose shape and analogy to face,cheeks,frontal bones of splachnic cranium etc and the body characteristics like waist to hip ratio,length of legs etc.
All these folllow a common pattern in slavic folks while the colour differs,that is Serbs are for sure darker than Poles because the sun shines more in Serbia than in Poland,however all other features carry a great resemblance and you will see it in praxis when you try to differentiate the serbian from the polish girls.You will be surprised in many occasions except when you meet the typical polish face which is prevalent only in Poland and some areas of western Ukraine.

The Finns and Hungarians don't have very much common ancestry.

Even Poland is geographically closer to Finland than Hungary

Clearly you are mentally retarded. Poland has fast food, but they wont become fat whales like U.S. women. That would only happen if they adopt full blown feminism or full blown islam which both promote fat acceptance and ugly women.

i wouldnt be too sure of that, theres a lot more porkers wobbling round poland today than a few more years ago

And here I was, hoping...

Kev

From my experience and my family...that I know my mom, my grandmothers, female cousins, friends most of them got puffy cheeks, their cheek bone, round or heart shape face, usually dimples (I know I have 'em), dark to light hair, almond eye shape, peachy to milky skin colour, roundish-squishy? type of nose...(most people think I look Polish because of my face shape, puffy cheeks, dimples, my almond eye shape, cheek bone...etc)

I can spot a Polish person easily on a street (I guess I just have a strong gut feeling, she must be Polish or he must be Polish, there just something about their face)

Men? my brother had white blonde hair when he was little now dark blonde hair. Men in my family are average height to tall (I have about 80% of my male cousins that are over 6' foot tall), they don't age, my dad is about 50; he look most at 40...men look younger (well in my family I guess).

R u a plastic surgeon?

Yeah...they look all the same to me....like twins (what an example on high cheekbones and heart shaped faces!!!) :)