The Dutch are supposed to be the tallest. Yoshie, the same article says that the Japanese are supposed to be almost as tall as the people in the US. Judging from my students, that cannot be true.
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:07:40PM -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > "Can America Stand Tall Again?" (Liberal and conservative pundits are > fond of fretting about America's metaphorical "stature" in the world. > Can America "stand tall"? Instead, they had better take the measure > of American bodies and think about why Americans, once taller than > Canadians and Europeans, have fallen relatively short. E.g., "At > just over five foot eleven, the average Canadian-born male from the > 1970s stands nearly an inch taller than his American counterpart. . . > . In the space of about 140 years, the average Americans have gone > from being three inches taller than the Dutch to three inches > shorter." Height is a good measure of nutritional status. Not > surprisingly, height is clearly correlated with class power: the > ruling class stand taller than the classes they rule; and the more > class power workers and their allies gain, making their nation more > egalitarian, the taller their nation's average height will be) -- > FULL TEXT: > <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/06/can-america-stand-tall-again.html>. > -- > Yoshie > > * Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> > * Monthly Review: <http://monthlyreview.org/> > * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> > * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> > * Calendars of Events in Columbus: > <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, > <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> > * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> > * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> > * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> > * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/> -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
