Are new geneations getting taller in your country?

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Quote from: Liberation on January 05, 2022, 07:30:00 PMDo you mean new White/Black generation? US's average height is being pulled down by Latins and Hispanics and other shorter races but White/Black generation is not getting shorter and shorter itself.

Blacks aren't really increasing as a share of the population, but the Hispanics could be pulling the height down some as they/we continue to bubble up in demographic share. I think the same is happening in Europe, however.

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Quote from: ReadRothbard on January 05, 2022, 07:46:51 PMBlacks aren't really increasing as a share of the population, but the Hispanics could be pulling the height down some as they/we continue to bubble up in demographic share. I think the same is happening in Europe, however.
True. One of the reasons why Trump banned the Latins and Hispanics from immigrating into the U.S before with a huge border wall LOL

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No doubt. I live in Canada and I feel barely average among zoomers despite wearing nikes with insoles to 6'.

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We've all heard this before. Average 12 year old is 6'3" in China and 6'5" in America.

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on January 12, 2022, 08:40:12 PMWe've all heard this before. Average 12 year old is 6'3" in China and 6'5" in America.

Yeah, it's a meme. I went to a large, mostly White state school for college, and the average height was still pretty-much in line with national statistics. As a sanity check, I would count the people taller than me and those shorter; every time, I was about the 20th percentile of height, which is what you'd expect in the States. Most men were 5'9.5 (177 cm) or so, with a minority 6'0 (183 cm) or over, and very few were over 6'2-6'3 (188-191 cm). The tallest person you might see on a weekly basis was maybe 6'4.5-6'5 (193-196 cm). People on here are just unfortunately very attentive to this insecurity,
 thus they misjudge how many people are taller than them and by how much.

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Germany here: I don't think so, might go down as we have a lot of new immigrants here who are shorter on average and also have more babies on average.

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Quote from: Itsme on January 14, 2022, 08:35:27 AMGermany here: I don't think so, might go down as we have a lot of new immigrants here who are shorter on average and also have more babies on average.

What about the Germanic Germans?

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True for all Asian countries in general. Almost everyone is taller than their parents except me. 

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Quote from: overandover on January 15, 2022, 03:51:42 AMTrue for all Asian countries in general. Almost everyone is taller than their parents except me. 
It's also normal if you can't tower over your parents cuz it's nonsense that every newer generation can get taller than the older generation.

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Quote from: overandover on January 15, 2022, 03:51:42 AMTrue for all Asian countries in general. Almost everyone is taller than their parents except me. 

People are getting taller with better nutrition.