What do Polish, Welsh people look like?

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  • VitVit18
    VitVit18 Posts: 103 Member
    My dad's half Italian, and really looks it (dark complexion, etc.), and his other half is Heinz 57 as someone else said lol. I inherited those traits - dark hair and eyes (so brown they're almost black in the right conditions), and I tan up very well - not quite like my dad, but compared to my mom and sister, I'm pretty dark.

    When others try to guess, I tend to get Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, and most recently (and it seems kind of odd to me) Russian.
  • CodyGearhart
    CodyGearhart Posts: 1
    hi i need help with knowing what nationality i am guys. i am 6 foot 2 i have freckles on my shoulders and a little bit of freckles on my back? i have blue eyes blonde hair the blonde hair part is like that it's dark blonde hair with some light in it and it seems to almost look strawberry blonde when exposed a lot in the summer i have white pale skin i think like my legs get extremley white almost like a ghost lol but i do not know very much about my dad's side or my moms but my mom had long red hair and freckles as well and my dad had blue eyes? but his hair is the the same mine though but his hair is slightly slightly darker than mine. so if anyone could help me with indentifying this for me or have anymore questions to help indentify it more just ask and please help thank you!
  • gonnamakeanewaccount
    gonnamakeanewaccount Posts: 642 Member
    I'm Polish, Irish, French, and German.
  • MightyDomo
    MightyDomo Posts: 1,265 Member
    What country someone comes from has absolutely no effect and is no indication of what they look like.

    I totally agree. It's verging on racism, IMO.

    Certainly there are traits that different from region to region (country to country) but there are also a lot of similarities as well. Many look at me and ask if I am European (broad), Afghani, Lebanese, Spanish, Portugese and a few that asked if I was Russian. I don't take it in offense when they ask me because I am not going to assume it was to be rude or racist but because they think I look like I or my family may have originated there and often is just a question on where I come from.

    It was just a older lady making remarks on what the OP's traits appeared to come from, from her perspective.
  • allisonlane61
    allisonlane61 Posts: 187 Member
    Little old ladies are seldom PC and have earned a pass on it anyway in my book.

    Take it as a compliment. Eastern Europeans, in particular the Polish, Ukrainian, and Russians, at least to me, are some of the most beautifully featured people on the planet. All nationalities have their beauty, but some of the most beautiful faces/features that I've seen come from the Eastern Europeans.
  • iysys
    iysys Posts: 524
    i am french jewish, native american and a bit of german. i *look* about as "irish" as a person can but far as we know there's none in the family tree.
  • junejadesky
    junejadesky Posts: 524 Member
    What country someone comes from has absolutely no effect and is no indication of what they look like.

    I totally agree. It's verging on racism, IMO.

    Are you guys kidding?? Where a person comes from (meaning their genetics and ancestory line) has everything to do with the way we look.. It is how we evolved. It's a proven fact... for example, Eskimos have thicker brows, eyelids, and skin to help protect them from the cold. You can't debate genetics....
  • ModoVincere
    ModoVincere Posts: 530 Member
    Okay...what am I? :happy:
    based on you avatar, I'd say pretty damned cute
  • bridgelene
    bridgelene Posts: 358 Member
    Raised in the US. Both parents born in the US and adopted so don't really know much about biofamily history, but from what my mom knows of her heritage she has some German and Polish blood in her.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    What country someone comes from has absolutely no effect and is no indication of what they look like.

    Whatever school you went to owes you a refund.

    Agreed. I can see s difference in people depending on what region they are from.

    I am almost full blooded German. On my dad's side everyone is German, except one Scottish person who I descend from . My mom's side is the same, German with one Welsh person. We all "look the part".

    If anyone can figure out where the last name "Ply" originated from , please let me know. It is a family mystery.
  • ModoVincere
    ModoVincere Posts: 530 Member
    <- mutt.....part Cherokee Indian, part Scottish, German, english, and whatever else was in the water...
  • cdgabbert
    cdgabbert Posts: 55 Member
    WOW - amazing the feedback on this post from the "pride" some have offering up their heritage while other believe this is "racist" because someone inferred they have features that seem to be dominant from heritage. Then some saying, "no specific features" which makes me really wonder... There are features that are dominant, perhaps NOT always featured, however dominant, such as skin tones... some hair colors are more predominant in some regions / countries...

    I do NOT believe this woman was trying to be rude, but perhaps she had some interest in this... such as an anthropological studies at one time, which my son does major and one of the subjects is biological anthropology, which goes over this very topic and according to him was one of his favorite subjects.
  • Velv3tkisses
    Velv3tkisses Posts: 23
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  • thadius65
    thadius65 Posts: 36 Member
    Totally agree that some are going overboard on the "racist" card. Why can't we embrace and celebrate our differences as opposed to getting our sphincters all tightened up when a harmless question like this is asked, or stated. People of different areas, regions, ethnicity have different features. There is nothing wrong with that. Just as there are differences between men and women. Let's stop trying to homogenize everything. We are all different.

    It's national margarita day..... let's have one in celebration of our uniqueness and pride in that fact!
  • rwhawkes
    rwhawkes Posts: 117 Member
    What country someone comes from has absolutely no effect and is no indication of what they look like.

    Maybe in today's more mobile world that is true, but there are most definitely regional traits that can identify some (not all) people groups. For example, in the Rwanda massacre in the 90s the Hutus could tell who the Tutsis were by their features. When we "adopted" a family of Vietnamese boat people in the 80s they told us the difference between Vietnamese and Cambodians. Many people of slavic origin have similar features. I'd venture to say that some Koreans have distinctive features too. Nothing racist about that at all. Think about it - the melting pot world we have nowadays is a fairly recent development in the history of the world.

    There's nothing out of line about what the OP was quoting.

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