• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I’m not surprised, I’ve long suspected the stereotype of east Asians being short is more related to food insecurity and lack of caloric abundance in childhood than genetics. Some Japanese people are short, but I’m tall in America and didn’t feel meaningfully taller in Japan. If anything I actually saw more women taller than me in Tokyo than New York. Also stereotyping as coming from an area with a lot of Desi Americans I never would have thought Indians are significantly shorter than Chinese people on average.

    Also weird to think there are countries where most men are my height or taller