Stereotypes of East European guys?

We all know that Polish birds are good lookers with a penchant for denim

We all know that Polish birds are good lookers with a penchant for denim but the identity of the males is much harder to pin down.

I always thought personally they fall in to two camps; either drunken hooligan/factory lads or the boffin/chess playing type, rarely anything in between.

We all know that Polish birds are good lookers with a penchant for denim but the identity of the males is much harder to pin down.

I always thought personally they fall in to two camps; either drunken hooligan/factory lads or the boffin/chess playing type, rarely anything in between.

Poles are also extremely mixed - you get a lot of them who look like Scandinavians, Russians, Greeks, Germans or like middle eastern Jews or central Asian Tatars etc.

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One of the stereotypes I often hear about Poland is religiosity, but the actual level of engagement in religious life is not adequately reflected in the statistics. The general pattern is that the poorer and the less educated are more religious. Still, I don't think Poland is any more religious than Germany. Lots of people are atheist/agnostic or belong to a religious denomination but never actually practice.



I think the voting map above is also pretty interesting. This shows the historical divide between the German and the Russian empires and the liberal v conservative worldviews. However, the south-east of Poland was part of the Habsburg empire so the East v West hypothesis doesn't really apply.