Asian American Attitudes toward Height | Asian American Poll

AA ATTITUDE TOWARD HEIGHT
(Updated Saturday, Jun 6, 2026, 12:07:54 AM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Assuming you are an Asian American, how important is height in your assessment of a person's attractiveness?
It's a key element of attractiveness. | 20%
It's one of many factors I consider. | 44%
It's less important than other personal qualities. | 28%
I am not attracted to tall people. | 8%

Assuming you are an Asian American, which best matches your feelings toward your own height?
I'd like to be 3 inches taller. | 43%
I'd like to be an inch taller. | 27%
I'm happy with my height. | 26%
I'd like to be an inch shorter. | 4%

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The Hong Kong actor (Leon Lai) is of Beijing descent. To me, he looks more Cantonese than typical Korean. Most Beijing people still have more Han than Manchu features.

There also another actress (Zhou Hai-mei) who is really of Manchu ethnic descent. She too can pass more for Cantonese than she does Korean.

The differences between Chinese and minority people living in China are not as great as some of you think.

Even the Xinjiang Uygurs. Many of them (those who have less Persian blood) have Han Chinese features even more than Koreans and Japanese.
what's all this hype? Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 23:01:24 (PST)

This is height topic is actually a very interesting topic for Asians as the short stigma has affected us and now average heights have and are increasing...really interesting stuff, people, please continue to post, BUT....this topic IS "attitudes on height." Shouldn't your posts have at least something to do with this?
I click here to discuss height Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 20:36:05 (PST)

Sohoh:

Are you calling me a Manchurian weirdo?
I think that's really rude. Who are you calling barbarians when your parents appearently failed to teach you the most common of mannters.
Let's try to be more mature next time and leave personal attacks out of our disagreements.
I don't really have anything else to say.

FOP:
I agree with you on what you said about moving on. Deep...

hehe:)

Manchurian Princess~_~ Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 19:21:25 (PST)

sohoh, you're a riot!..

So what would you propose to do about China and all her various ethnicities?

Should China be broken up and allow the various people's to go their own ways?

In some respects, that's an attractive idea. I've never been fond of "Big Gov't", and many smaller states competing against one another economically and culturally may be a very good idea (as it has often been the case in Europe). But I digress..

But I think you should probably refrain from calling people "nomads" (disparagingly) and "barbarians" (not in order to be politically correct -- but because it's just silly). There's nothing wrong with nomadism, and the term "barbarian" is pretty silly.

If China wants to stay unbroken and united, it's gonna have to learn to look past inter-ethnic differences. At any rate, it's pretty silly to disparage one group over another, and uphold the Han over all else. I mean, there is no such thing as pure Han, at least anymore anyways (and according to tradition, only the "Han" are the "real" Chinese). China has been a melting pot since its birth as a civilization, and ruled by so-called "barbarians" many a times (Yuan, Ching, Tang, Chou, Qin, Wei, Sui were all wholly or partly "barbarian").
MK Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 16:05:41 (PST)

In which sense could the "tall men of
dongbei be described as "bellicose"?
Are they really "good knife-fighters"?

AiE Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 14:31:36 (PST)

Hi Mk,
yep I agree with you. It was a very inappropriate thing for her to say. However she never said my husband was ugly, only that he was 'short' and that I was 'tall' and she put height directly together with attractiveness. The ironic thing is, that this first person to say something about my husbands height and mine, was also a very old college friend of my husbands too. Of course this rudeness explained itself by her supposed "preference" for tall men and her unbelief that someone taller would marry someone shorter. She is so biased that she looks alot at height. She has shown her support of us in many ways now and has come forward to reveal good qualities. No one is perfect, and her lack of a husband or boyfriend reveals that perhaps her shallow judgement of height has done nothing for her love life.
Hannybunbun Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 10:49:43 (PST)

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