German or Polish? Guessing Game

[aynora]

Can you tell these Polish and German ladys apart? All of them are German by nationality, but only half of them (4) by ethnicity. The rest has Polish roots. I cherrypicked a bit to make it harder.

Keep quiet if you know them.

1.
https://i.imgur.com/mMZZFpK.png



2.
https://i.imgur.com/5cSV7xO.jpg



3.
https://i.imgur.com/fdxdHfa.jpg



4.
https://i.imgur.com/7yIvil6.jpg



5.
https://i.imgur.com/QNo9BcZ.jpg



6.
https://i.imgur.com/dX9xBhl.jpg



7.
https://i.imgur.com/229yr72.jpg



8.
https://i.imgur.com/ohpEULd.jpg

[cass]

1 3 5 8 PL

[Benim]

1. DE

2. PL

3. DE

4. DE/PL ??

5. PL baltoid looking

6. DE looks uber-german tronder

7. DE

8. DE, has atlantic influences.

[aynora]

Thanks for the guesses so far! Other opinions? :)

[Roy]

I don't know them .. but let's check my inner German spotting radar. :) :D


1. German
2. Polish
3. Polish
4. German for 100%
5. Polish, no way she is German in this particular case.
6. German
7. Polish
8. German for 70%

[Kyp]

1. German
2. Poland
3. Poland
4. German
5. Poland
6. German
7. Poland
8. German

[aynora]

I don't know them .. but let's check my inner German spotting radar. :) :D


1. German
2. Polish
3. Polish
4. German for 100%
5. Polish, no way she is German in this particular case.
6. German
7. Polish
8. German for 70%

Thanks, I'll reveal later! :D As a Pole yourself, do you think all of them can pass in Poland?

[Konstantinos]

1- Polish
2- German
3- Polish
4- German
5- German
6- Polish
7- German
8- Polish

[zeybek]

1. Polish visible Uraloid traits looks Russian actually
2. German Nordid + Alpinid
3. Polish Slavic face
4. Polish Slavic face
5. German
6. German Nordid + Alpinid
7. German Nordid
8. Polish Slavic face

[Tauromachos]

2 would be Polish ,5 too
6 German

[zodzod]

1,3,6,7 Polish

[XenophobicPrussian]

1, 3, 5, 7 Polish

[Viridian1]

The one I am about 100% sure that is Polish is #3

1,5,6,7 could be either

2,4,8 don't look Polish at all

[Lemminkäinen]

Polish
German
Polish
German
Polish
German
Polish
German

[aynora]

Some more guesses before I reveal?

[rero]

Polish 1,3,5,7,8

[Viridian1]

The one I am about 100% sure that is Polish is #3

1,5,6,7 could be either

2,4,8 don't look Polish at all

Here is my final thought:
Polish
German
Polish
German
Polish
Polish
German
German

[Dunai]

Surprisingly not that easy to differentiate them, since some of them could go either way, but these are my guesses:
Polish: 1,3,5,8

[aynora]

Polish 1,3,5,7,8

Only 4 of them are Polish.

[rero]

Only 4 of them are Polish.

Then I'd say 8 is German, rest stays.

[Karol Klačansky]

2, 3, 6, and 8 in my opinion

[Immanenz]

if nr. 5 is German, than this game makes no sense. Nr. 2 i also think he looks more Polish, at least Kurganoid influenced people are common in Poland, Nr. 3 and 7 also rather Polish looking to me, but i would not be shocked if its otherwise.
non of those women look extremly German or Germanic to me, so the German examples can pass better in Poland than in Norway/Sweden, makes also sense since a lot of immigration etc.

[aynora]

Can you tell these Polish and German ladys apart? All of them are German by nationality, but only half of them (4) by ethnicity. The rest has Polish roots. I cherrypicked a bit to make it harder.

Keep quiet if you know them.

1.
https://i.imgur.com/mMZZFpK.png



2.
https://i.imgur.com/5cSV7xO.jpg



3.
https://i.imgur.com/fdxdHfa.jpg



4.
https://i.imgur.com/7yIvil6.jpg



5.
https://i.imgur.com/QNo9BcZ.jpg



6.
https://i.imgur.com/dX9xBhl.jpg



7.
https://i.imgur.com/229yr72.jpg



8.
https://i.imgur.com/ohpEULd.jpg

Thanks for all the opinions. Here are the results. Some of you may be surprised but I'll admit it was tricky! :D

1. German
2. Polish
3. Polish
4. Polish
5. German
6. German
7. German
8. Polish

[aynora]

if nr. 5 is German, than this game makes no sense. Nr. 2 i also think he looks more Polish, at least Kurganoid influenced people are common in Poland, Nr. 3 and 7 also rather Polish looking to me, but i would not be shocked if its otherwise.
non of those women look extremly German or Germanic to me, so the German examples can pass better in Poland than in Norway/Sweden, makes also sense since a lot of immigration etc.

I know that these people aren't very German looking but as I said I cherrypicked. Otherwise it would've been too easy.

[Immanenz]

I know that these people aren't very German looking but as I said I cherrypicked. Otherwise it would've been too easy.

you see- you proved me this game makes no sense :)

[rero]

They were extremely cherrypicked then and impossible to guess. I think samples should represent more typical looks since its easier to guess. Are we sure that 4 is fully Polish, she looks extremely German(ic).

[Immanenz]

They were extremely cherrypicked then and impossible to guess. I think samples should represent more typical looks since its easier to guess. Are we sure that 4 is fully Polish, she looks extremely German(ic).

Being German is literally possesing the citizenship, a lot people in Germany will have ancestry from out of Germany, even if its 2-3 generations behind.

[aynora]

They were extremely cherrypicked then and impossible to guess. I think samples should represent more typical looks since its easier to guess. Are we sure that 4 is fully Polish, she looks extremely German(ic).

Yes, they are cherrypicked but I already mentioned it! I just wanted to make it a bit harder. Yes, she's fully Polish. When I saw her for the first time I knew that she can't be German, she looks very Slavic to me.

[aynora]

you see- you proved me this game makes no sense :)

Ok :thumb001:

[Roy]

I was so wrong here actually, lol.

[rero]

Being German is literally possesing the citizenship, a lot people in Germany will have ancestry from out of Germany, even if its 2-3 generations behind.

Majority still has german ancestry, so there are enough people to choose from. The examples in this thread dont represent typical German look which exists.

[Immanenz]

Majority still has german ancestry, so there are enough people to choose from. The examples in this thread dont represent typical German look which exists.

of course you can choose better examples- but the reason for many people doing this game is not chosing typical examples, but rather overlapp examples, which Aynora did very well.
Everybody on anthrofroums thinks Germans look like Oliver Kahn (who himself has some Baltic roots), therefor its actually refreshing to cut out stereotypes. The same can be said for Polish, imo Polish and Germans can overlapp therefor it makes sense that the game was hard.

[aynora]

of course you can choose better examples- but the reason for many people doing this game is not chosing typical examples, but rather overlapp examples, which Aynora did very well.
Everybody on anthrofroums thinks Germans look like Oliver Kahn (who himself has some Baltic roots), therefor its actually refreshing to cut out stereotypes. The same can be said for Polish, imo Polish and Germans can overlapp therefor it makes sense that the game was hard.

Yes, I won't deny that I cherrypicked (as I've mentioned several times) but just imagine I choose very normal Germans and then these Poles. Everybody (or at least the majority) would've guessed right and it would've been boring. In case of German or Dutch I wouldn't have to cherrypick so much because Germans overlapp way more with Dutch people than with Polish people.

[Immanenz]

Yes, I won't deny that I cherrypicked (as I've mentioned several times) but just imagine I choose very normal Germans and then these Poles. Everybody (or at least the majority) would've guessed right and it would've been boring. In case of German or Dutch I wouldn't have to cherrypick so much because Germans overlapp way more with Dutch people than with Polish people.



please do a german vs dutch version :)

[Karol Klačansky]

I was so wrong here actually, lol.

I was only wrong by one. Ive lived and spent significant time in different countries and places, if you have a keen eye you start to notice the differences. Something that sounds ridiculous but ive noticed is a difference in skin texture between eastern and western euros. Western Euros seem to have almost thicker skin, literally it looks a bit thicker while eastern euros have more paper thin looking skin, not quite as extreme as asians but going in that direction. western european women are also not as soft looking and are just bigger boned. it was an interesting game.

[Roy]

I was only wrong by one. Ive lived and spent significant time in different countries and places, if you have a keen eye you start to notice the differences. Something that sounds ridiculous but ive noticed is a difference in skin texture between eastern and western euros. Western Euros seem to have almost thicker skin, literally it looks a bit thicker while eastern euros have more paper thin looking skin, not quite as extreme as asians but going in that direction. western european women are also not as soft looking and are just bigger boned. it was an interesting game.

The differences between Poles and Germans are big and I always notice them when I cross the border (and people from Eastern Germany are already much, much closer than let's say Bavarians or Germans from Bremen let's say) but I just meant this particular game where I was off. I've never noticed though that skin thickness factor, but I will now attention to it (pretty autistic thing would that be I guess). But it's like we are made from a different clay.

[Friedrich Ulrich]

1 3 5 8 PL

Agree