You Look Like You’re Polish: Is That a Compliment?

The First Time Anyone Ever Said I Was Lucky to Be Polish: Who Thinks I Look Like John Paul?

How do you react when someone says you“look Polish?” As I age, more people say, “you look like Pope John Paul II.” Photo collage by Joseph Serwach, including an image of St. John Paul II via Levan Ramishvili via Wikimedia Commons.

Do we become what we study? When someone tells me I look like St. John Paul the Great, it makes me beam.

A young Catholic lady told me a brand new one: “You’re so lucky to be Polish. Poles are so sure…