Some comments : "most 18 16 year old girls are 180 or 185 cm" / "I am 16 years old, and 5'9. I am one of the shortest boys in the class our average boy length is 6'1 in class. Yep..... The Netherlands" / "Living in the netherlands is weird man, i'm 1,83(6') and most of my friends are way taller."
(I even think that Sun Ming Ming would be woman average in Netherlands)
I never visited Netherlands but it seems they are playing (maybe even mocking a bit) with that "myth" (""""""""""""""""""""). They have the tallest average of course (6ft), but it's only 3cm more than Czech, German, Belgian or Finnish (181 cm for Finland) average and nobody is talking about that countries. They are already pretending that their woman average is taller : like 6'1 that is already taller than every man average in the world (even dinaric Alps). And for people who can see some Dutch people thanks to tourism (that's the case where I'm living) they seems way under what we can read about.
And that BBC documentary is wrong, they are showing 6'6 and 6'1 women but even in Netherlands it's not common. That's also the case for 6'7. At 6'7 you are above Dutch average. You can make that kind of documentary (I mean showing tall people) everywhere, even in China.
And people in vid are probably not that tall.
What do you think about ? Even if I know there is already many topics about it
That also what I think YungGud. So you are agree, that comments and kind of documentaries are bullcrap ?
Also don't forget that tallest woman average is ESTONIA, not Netherlands. I think it's time to stop with that
Quote from: YourSpaceBoyfriend on July 28, 2017, 03:07:12 PMI was in netherlands once and people aren't so tall. At least not taller than where im living lol.
Yes, I guess. I'm sure I wouldn't see a big difference between my country and Netherlands.
But anyway where I'm living, it's full of Dutch and German tourists.
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Quote from: Body Builder on July 28, 2017, 03:52:46 PMI think that all these are bs and people who brag about how tall they are are only because their countries have nothing more to offer in the worldwide community.
Dutches are so "capable" physically that almost all their natiolan football team players and boxers (the only sports that Netherlands is good at) are immigrants.
These are the "proud 6.1ft average height" Dutches. 
6'1 average ? how dwarf, at 6'1 you are 1 or 2ft under Dutch woman average. Look at that 6'6 girl (who is probably not that tall), she is dwarf there !
But it's true that most the time we can hear about that country it's about that topic
Netherlands have more to offer, I'm sure. It's an interesting country
Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on July 28, 2017, 07:41:36 PMYou pretty much summed it up with that sentence. Yeah it's a national motif they like to play with and exaggerate, just like the stereotype that all Germans work hard and all Italians are lazy and womanizers. You can completely disregard Youtube comments for that matter because enough people there post stupid things that they've heard and aren't true (a lot of peole are stupid IRL) or because they have a wrong perception of height (they overestimate it). Adding to that, I've seen people of every nationality claiming that [insert nationality] is tall that you can pretty much not take these statements seriously. On the other LL forum, I've seen a Spanish guy say that young Spanish men are 1,85 on average, the Chinese poster on this forum saying young Chinese are 1,78 on average, I've also seen the statement that young people in Somalia are 6'1'' on average, and yeah of course the 6'1'' statement for Holland, which is probably closer to 6' in reality.
There's also the study that showed the average height stalled since 10-20 years and we can assume this trend is not going to change, because the Netherlands has a fair share of migrants that have higher birth rates and that will also mix with the native population a little, which will at least cause the height range to become more "diverse". One example is that a poster here once said that 5'7'' is still a common height in the Netherlands, even for a man, because you just have to go to a university and see a random, short Somali migrant attending there.
Funny note aside, if you follow F1, there's two Finns and a Dutchman racing there, and neither are tall. And they are natives.
Yes, 6ft average is already very tall.
But it's average, it mean there is still many people under that. (They will say it's only migrants)
I remember a spanish woman saying that all her female friends were over 5'9 and male over 6'1
But she was probably thinking that 5'9 is 1m59 and 6'1 1m61 but if not she is overestimating a lot
Also it's funny because in some case, people can underestimate easier.
Quote from: google42 on July 28, 2017, 07:49:10 PMI've seen this stuff online too where people overestimate height and exaggerate. The average in the Netherlands I read some where was actually 5-11. Doesn't matter because people will consider that 6 feet anyways.
If 5'11 is Dutch average, that mean they are not the tallest in Europe ?
What I'm sure is that German average is not above Czech average
Quote from: Bander72 on July 30, 2017, 12:19:01 PMYeah unless he already lengthen I was thinking that Israel avg height cant be less than 5"7. Bodybuilder with lifts I am a inch above average in the u.s and the same as the tallest race causcasian. Yet I still want to wear lifts to be at 6 feet after surgery. So i think it all depends on the persons mentality after all we have some nutcases in the forum that think that they are too short at 180 cm.
Does American people are tall ? Because it's weird, I'm actually curious how they can find so many 6'6 + people for NBA
Quote from: biggerdreams on July 31, 2017, 03:33:57 AMI've also been to the Netherlands and did not notice people's height to be taller than, say, height of the average European or American.
Yes, but on the Net they are all over 6'11 
http://www.kaikura.net/tall_women/all_tall_women_portfolios.php most girls here are Dutch
am I a complotiste if I say that most height of these girls are exagerrated ?
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