Like many here the height haunts me
but I also see that this obsession is the indirect result of what we see on TV, in books or movies
Why people gives this importance to height ?
I can understand that for the sport either an asset but why actors and singers lie ? I struggle to see how 5-10 cm can make more or less beautiful, attractive, charismatic, imposing
talent does not come from height
There I just saw my father puts TV, and what do I see? Another woman who recounts his romantic encounter with a tall guy apparently 1.96m
Why this interest for tall people as if they were superior to us? (For example in my family everyone is entranced by my cousin who is 1m60 to 10 years -it is already too hairy as a 16yo boy- | they hope she exceeds 1.80m, but I thought that being too great for a girl was a bad thing but apparently not)
What are your thoughts / theories about that?
I have another question for African, Asian, South American. Is this "cult of height" also present and important ?
china and korea is very important to height. korean and northern chinese are the tallest asian. my parents are northern chinese from shandong and shanxi and all relatives.
Many have the news of leg surgery here but many got disable. So I dont want to do the surgery locally. I dont know why height is so important.
In my company i work, girls tall are easily accepted and beautiful girls, tall beautiful girls pass easily, very unfair.
male who has a （国字脸 country word for face chinese, the 国 has a rectangle character, this is describe to man with rectangular face usually with pointed chin and are said to be handsome）,, dont know how to translate it to english. they are also easily accepted and those who are 170 cm above male with good face and good college.
I was accepted because I can speak English . I stay in Singapore for a year before. That is where I learn English and still learning it. In China, my english is already good.
I always wear sneakerboot airmax with (内增高). five cm shoe pad which only give 4cm when stepping. if i wear this, i am same tall with those 172 cm male and same with my 173cm dad. dad became small by one cm.
There is this one time my boss will treat work mate to a buffer but require to remove shoes when enter. I didnt enter and say to boss that I am goin home because I say my mom send wechat message that I need to go home to buy some things. When removing shoes, I am really fearing.
高富帅 tall rich handsome are the most welcome male people in china.
Tall is different in area. there is difference in height between 北方人 northern people and 南方人 southern people, describe for northenr and southern chinese. 175 cm is consider tall in southern china but not in northern china.
In southern china, 175 cm is consider tall but average in norther china. need to be 180 consider tall. 170 cm is consider tall during my dad and mom time in northern china.
Not only height is important or college or english or face here but skin color too. Chinese love white people very much and they take pictures with them. Black people are being discriminate.
I have a south korea friend before when I was in shandong before. he say he is shock chinese are taller than south korean, south korea have average of 173- 175cm written in baidu. I say to him that only northern china are tall.
From what he say, it can be see that height is also important in south korea.
Its an evolutionary thing
When people were ape tall ones would get the female apes because they were strong . They had better chance of making bigger offsping which would survive easily . So females liked tall ones. It is still hard coded in human female brains that tall ones are better mates.
But, the main concern here is are you desperate enough to gamble with your legs to become taller . i think i am .
Quote from: chineseguy on April 12, 2016, 01:11:28 PMchina and korea is very important to height. korean and northern chinese are the tallest asian. my parents are northern chinese from shandong and shanxi and all relatives.
Many have the news of leg surgery here but many got disable. So I dont want to do the surgery locally. I dont know why height is so important.
In my company i work, girls tall are easily accepted and beautiful girls, tall beautiful girls pass easily, very unfair.
male who has a （国字脸 country word for face chinese, the 国 has a rectangle character, this is describe to man with rectangular face usually with pointed chin and are said to be handsome）,, dont know how to translate it to english. they are also easily accepted and those who are 170 cm above male with good face and good college.
I was accepted because I can speak English . I stay in Singapore for a year before. That is where I learn English and still learning it. In China, my english is already good.
I always wear sneakerboot airmax with (内增高). five cm shoe pad which only give 4cm when stepping. if i wear this, i am same tall with those 172 cm male and same with my 173cm dad. dad became small by one cm.
There is this one time my boss will treat work mate to a buffer but require to remove shoes when enter. I didnt enter and say to boss that I am goin home because I say my mom send wechat message that I need to go home to buy some things. When removing shoes, I am really fearing.
高富帅 tall rich handsome are the most welcome male people in china.
Tall is different in area. there is difference in height between 北方人 northern people and 南方人 southern people, describe for northenr and southern chinese. 175 cm is consider tall in southern china but not in northern china.
In southern china, 175 cm is consider tall but average in norther china. need to be 180 consider tall. 170 cm is consider tall during my dad and mom time in northern china.
Not only height is important or college or english or face here but skin color too. Chinese love white people very much and they take pictures with them. Black people are being discriminate.
I have a south korea friend before when I was in shandong before. he say he is shock chinese are taller than south korean, south korea have average of 173- 175cm written in baidu. I say to him that only northern china are tall.
From what he say, it can be see that height is also important in south korea.
From what you say, it looks almost worse than in Europe
in Europe 175 cm (5'9) is average height - average is between 5'8/5'9 and 6'1/6'3
there is big differences between poor and rich people ?
Quote from: LL in 2018 on April 12, 2016, 01:26:06 PMWhen people were ape tall ones would get the female apes because they were strong . They had better chance of making bigger offsping which would survive easily . So females liked tall ones. It is still hard coded in human female brains that tall ones are better mates.
But, the main concern here is are you desperate enough to gamble with your legs to become taller . i think i am .
if I knew that the operation was going to destroy my body I not think about even
but I would be sad
I do not think that psychologically the operation is harder than the other surgeries
it is more risky, but it does not leave more than physical or psychological traces than other surgeries
the provincial area in fujian where i grow up are much smaller than me , im 167 cm. the people in the province are like 163 to 165cm for my age. smaller for old people. in the city like xiamen where I am now living and grow, it seems a lot of 173 cm kids
i think it is same too in northern china like beijing, but i have never go there. i remeber medium drink of water say he is in the province area of beijing and he say average male there is like same with him and he is 170 cm before surgery.
northern is taller by 5 cm to southern people.
China average height is only 170 cm because southern chinese people pull heights of the country. southern chinese people are many comapre to north
Here in xiamen, i saw a lot of white people and it looks like they are around 170 to 180cm. I also a few small white. 165cm to 170cm.
Quote from: chineseguy on April 12, 2016, 02:14:31 PMthe provincial area in fujian where i grow up are much smaller than me , im 167 cm. the people in the province are like 163 to 165cm for my age. smaller for old people. in the city like xiamen where I am now living and grow, it seems a lot of 173 cm kids
i think it is same too in northern china like beijing, but i have never go there. i remeber medium drink of water say he is in the province area of beijing and he say average male there is like same with him and he is 170 cm before surgery.
northern is taller by 5 cm to southern people.
China average height is only 170 cm because southern chinese people pull heights of the country. southern chinese people are many comapre to north
Here in xiamen, i saw a lot of white people and it looks like they are around 170 to 180cm. I also a few small white. 165cm to 170cm.
so, your're not so short in China ?
short in southern china, very short in northern china
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