How nordic are hhe Polish?

**Davystayn** · 03-31-2020, 12:47 PM

I work with and have worked with quite a few poles and I have to say overall their look surprises me - not at all slavic looking overall.

Of course there are the robust Russian looking Poles, who stand a mile out, but overall I wouldnt say that are more than 15-20% maybe.

I understand here is a north south gradient as with all continental Europe in terms of hair colour, eyes etc, but most poles I meet you couldn't separate from the domestic population.

In many cases I have seen a family assuming them to be from the UK originally, but after speaking to them they are Polish.

Apart from the much lower number of slavic - looking poles are the large number of baltic looking and straight up nordic poles, to the extent I would guess many to be swedish.

I would consider Poland to be north or at least central european now, rather than eastern. Is this fair?

**~~Satem~~** · 03-31-2020, 12:52 PM

This has potential to be intersting thread, I will wait with my opinion

**Not a Cop** · 03-31-2020, 12:58 PM

Well you have to define Baltic and Slavic look at firtst as it's not very different in my opinion f.e.

**Davystayn** · 03-31-2020, 01:06 PM

I think growing up in the west during the cold war here was the impression of a monolithic eastern europe, basically speaking slavic languages and all pretty much like more western Russians. This is clearly not the case.

I haven't met many people from the baltic countries but my understanding was that balts were a mid point between Swedes and Russians, a lot of poles look like this but also many look north german, both types being fair haired and blue eyed of course.