Ethnicity and Height Insecurity

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After being on this forum for many months now, I noticed that many of the posters here are not fluent in English, so I assume you guys are a minority. I am myself a minority, and I do find it hard to cope with being shorter stature. I wonder why there's not a lot of "white-American" people here. Is it because if you're classically white, it's easier as a short person? What do you guys think? How many of you guys are an ethnic minority here?

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I'm from and living in a pure white country and half of my family lives in a chicago does it count?

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From the perspective of someone with only white European ancestry, I don't see being short as easier for me than for short minorities when it comes to certain things that people care about, like attention from women or how much respect people will show you. In some ways I think it can be more difficult because we're statistically the tallest on average, and people seem to be shocked/disappointed when you don't fit the tall white expectation. Some people seem to accept that certain ethnic groups are shorter on average and will not care about their height as much but if you're a short white guy it stands out a lot more that you're "different." Just as an example, I know a few women who dated minorities that were my height pre-lengthening and they didn't seem to care, but they would not date white guys who didn't meet their cut off point of 5'8. Weirdest thing to me, but then again I'm not a woman. 

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I think being a short male is hard full stop regardless of your ethnicity.

Im currently here in Beijing getting my legs lengthened and i noticed the chinese males are on average still a bit taller than me i was expecting them to be quite short same as the women. Id guess the average here to be around 5-9 for males 5-4 females a bit shorter than the 6-0, 5-6/7 average in the UK.

I agree as well if you go to places like asia they expect white males from the west to be in the 5-11/6' average if you are below they look at you with a 'what the hell happened to you' face

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Quote from: applesandoranges on August 17, 2016, 11:34:50 PMAfter being on this forum for many months now, I noticed that many of the posters here are not fluent in English, so I assume you guys are a minority. I am myself a minority, and I do find it hard to cope with being shorter stature. I wonder why there's not a lot of "white-American" people here. Is it because if you're classically white, it's easier as a short person? What do you guys think? How many of you guys are an ethnic minority here?

The fact that many of us are not very fluent in English does not mean that we are an ethnic minority, it means that we are from countries like Spain, France, China, etc, so English is not our first language.

Unless you consider anyone who is not "white-American" as part of a "minority", in which case you are saying that 97.5% of the world population is a "minority. 

Other than that, I don't see a direct correlation between ethnicity and height dysphoria.

Quote from: Bigpoppapump on August 18, 2016, 08:45:34 AMIm currently here in Beijing getting my legs lengthened and i noticed the chinese males are on average still a bit taller than me i was expecting them to be quite short same as the women. Id guess the average here to be around 5-9 for males 5-4 females a bit shorter than the 6-0, 5-6/7 average in the UK.

British people, especially women, are not that tall.

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Yeah, as a London living (white) Brit I can safely say the average is 5'9-5'10 depending on the area. Some places I've been to I've felt the average could be around 6'0 (pub by Bank, everyone was a giant, but that's literally a massive rarity to see something like that). Heck when I've been to the West Country I've not even felt that short. I'm for sure taller than the average woman.

One of my best mates is Chinese/ Thai descent and about a cm shorter than me and I don't think we're treated differently because of height. Reading some of the stories about I don't think we have it as bad as say Americans unless there's a lot of gross exaggeration in stories.

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Quote from: Nightwish on August 18, 2016, 09:25:54 AMYeah, as a London living (white) Brit I can safely say the average is 5'9-5'10 depending on the area. Some places I've been to I've felt the average could be around 6'0 (pub by Bank, everyone was a giant, but that's literally a massive rarity to see something like that). Heck when I've been to the West Country I've not even felt that short. I'm for sure taller than the average woman.

One of my best mates is Chinese/ Thai descent and about a cm shorter than me and I don't think we're treated differently because of height. Reading some of the stories about I don't think we have it as bad as say Americans unless there's a lot of gross exaggeration in stories.

It's a mixture of truth, confirmation bias, and exaggeration. The truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle.

I'm from the tallest area of the USA and I don't feel that short, outside this area I feel quite average.

My 5'4.5 friend just got his 12th Tinder bang for the year yesterday, and he lives where I do...it's not that bad.

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Ha ha. A lot of us are simply from other countries. U.S.A. are not the whole world, and many people are living in places which do not have English as the primary language, even in Europe.

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Quote from: Ozymandias on August 18, 2016, 09:15:25 AMThe fact that many of us are not very fluent in English does not mean that we are an ethnic minority, it means that we are from countries like Spain, France, China, etc, so English is not our first language.

Unless you consider anyone who is not "white-American" as part of a "minority", in which case you are saying that 97.5% of the world population is a "minority. 

Other than that, I don't see a direct correlation between ethnicity and height dysphoria.

British people, especially women, are not that tall.

Depends on the area you are in. North east Scotland has a lot of men and women in this range. I also noticed in oil companys that nearly all contractors/high level management were all above 6' averaging in the 6'-6' - 5" range. The younger generation are without a doubt in that range. With lifts on im like 5-9.5" and frequently encountered women as tall if not taller than this also guys easily 3-4" taller. The statistics in countries are well off this imo is down to the older generation bringing the average down significantly.

Countries like UK lost a lot of men during the war which again probably had something to do with lowering the national average. Hence the reason you see old ladies with little 5-2" husbands they married them as pickings of men were slim after the war so they either could accept smaller guys or live life alone.

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I come from a country where the average is 177. I dont know where all these 6'3+ guys come from but 190 is very very tall. I doubt younger generation uk or any other are that tall on average...