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.
I'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.