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Originally posted by

Dave Schindler

Perhaps the immigration policies of those countries are not as liberal as those of the United States and so the U.S. population is composed of many more races that are not historically as tall as the limited ethnicity of the the European nations.

Well being an American in The Netherlands I can make some statements. First off, when I moved here 3 years ago the Dutch had just claimed the 'tallest people' award, so this story is out of date. Second, the Netherlands has a more liberal immigration then we do. In fact the kind of people who immigrate are from Marocco and Surninam, not exactly the 'height gifted' type nations.

To answer the other question of polution, the area of the country that I live in is some of the worst air quality for all of Western Europe. I mean you are talking about a country that has 16 million people, 4 million illegals, TONS of temporay forgeiners and way too many cows. Think about if Manhatten had cows!

I am fully convinced it's the way food is processed. They eat just as much junk food, love to go to Burger King. National dish is french fries. The point is, is it is cooked in better oils, consumed in moderation, followed up with everyone - even old ladies - rides bike.

Get with it US!

Originally posted by

Harvey Moul

Perhaps if they compared apples to oranges and measured the heights of ethnically similar groups rather than all white europeans against a mixture of hispanics, asians, blacks and whites?

Of course, why make meaningful comparisons when you can use it for disingenuous hype and propaganda?

Yes that's right! America is the only place with mixed ethnicity. Europe is full of only tall, blonde haired, blue eyed, white people.

Originally posted by

Harvey Moul

Perhaps if they compared apples to oranges and measured the heights of ethnically similar groups rather than all white europeans against a mixture of hispanics, asians, blacks and whites?

Of course, why make meaningful comparisons when you can use it for disingenuous hype and propaganda?

Have you ever left your farm ?

Originally posted by

Shay

The 12 Million Illegal aliens from south of our border are dragging down our average.

12million illegals to 300 million people compares nothing to 4million illegals to 16million people. that's nearly 25 percent.

Originally posted by

Shay

The 12 Million Illegal aliens from south of our border are dragging down our average.

Um, many of those alleged 12 million have names like Moira O'Connor! Many/most of the so-called illegal aliens are people who legally arrived in the US and then overstayed their visas. Pretty easy for an Irish person in Boston or New York!

So please, enough of the racism.

[QUOTE]12million illegals to 300 million people compares nothing to 4million illegals to 16million people. that's nearly 25 percent.[/QUOTE]

Who the hell are you comparing to? Duh?

Originally posted by

Marion Tinsley

Dave and Harvey are correct. Euro nations are still mostly single eithinc groups. This article was obviously written by someone with a left wing agenda. Notice how they ignored the multi-ethninticy of th US and claimed that we are shorter because of preservative laden food and polluted air. Its hard to find buildings and mountain sides desolving in the US but common in Europe from the Acid Rain. The first thing many Europans say when the come to the US is "Its so clean here".

BTW I'm in Europe 1-2 months a year.

Clearly you have never been too much into books but too much CNN have made you as smart as you are.
And don't lie - you can't even show Europe on the map let alone spend there 2 months every year..redneck !

Originally posted by

Win

Left Wing agenda? Of course she does deserve to be called out on ignoring that we have traditionally shorter races in our society; I don't see any bias on this story. However I really do wonder how much it matters if Americans are the tallest, it seems really stupid to me to fight not being as tall when we have cancer, aids, and strange bird disease that theoretically morph and kill us all, or do nothing.

Amen. I was thinking the same thing. Why is it an "honor" to be the tallest nation in the world? Why would this matter?

Also, the article is really height biased (towards taller). The last part about Human Growth Hormone was given without any criticism what-so-ever. Why should we be drugging our kids to make them taller? When does it stop? Shouldn't we just tackle height discrimination if that is the problem?

Originally posted by

Collins

Do any of the people who wrote them actually believe European nations are ethnically homogenous? If anything, their immigration policies are much more open than America's. Walk through London and you will see every nationality and ethnicity on Earth well represented, I swear.

London is not exactly a representative of continental Europe. The British had one of the most far-flung colonial empires, which tended to encourage immigration and resulted in a more diverse population. Nationalism and a certain degree of racism were facts of life in Europe for some time, to a degree which most Americans would consider absurd. I will bet that most contemporary individuals would have found little difference between the peoples of Austria-Hungary, but that nation was comprised of more than half a dozen groups who were ethnically distinct and considered themselves separate from the rest of the population.

The Nordic countries in particular were fairly isolated from immigration and are among the most homogeneous nations you will find. Even Germany, with its millions of guest workers imported after World War II, is comprised of more than 80% native Germans. Sweden, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Denmark have similar demographics; this is discounting the fact that all of these related countries consider each other's immigrants to be foreign. Finland, for example, is 98% homogeneous. In contrast, the United States has 31 different groups with more than a million members, to say nothing of the hundreds of smaller groups.

I've got no stand one-way or the other on the issue of who's making us shorter or why that might be, but I did want to correct the impression that European countries were incredibly diverse and awash in a sea of immigrants.

Originally posted by

Bryan

I heard that even Japan and other asian countries is supassing the US as taller nations.

hype,hype hype, if you want to see tall go to burundi,rwanda or sudan with average male bieng 6ft3