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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Viet guy,

6'2 and 5'6 for men and women respectively are the idealized height in the West, just as blonde hair and blue eyes are the idealized hair and eye colors.

Kinda ironic that a Vietnamese guy should be trying to emulate the physical ideals upheld by Westerners. If all Vietnamese people did that, they will always be sorely disappointed at their many self-perceived "shortcomings".
po Monday, April 22, 2002 at 10:12:41 (PDT)

Whether or not China is playing a eugenics game, the result of female infanticide is astounding.

Due to the gender imbalance, more than 111 million men-3x the size of Canada-will not be able to find a wife.

In 1997, the World Health Organization reported that 50 million girls are estimated to be missing due to the neglect, and institutionalized killing both as a result of the one-child rule.

Females are now being abducted from other countries like North Vietnam by slave traders to meet the demand for women in China.

So much for height manipulation through eugenics.

www.dmcl.com/dying-rooms/page2.htm
www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html
low not tall Monday, April 22, 2002 at 10:06:26 (PDT)

curious,

Women with curves are attractive, no doubt, but not if "curvy" is a euphemism for "overweight".
po Monday, April 22, 2002 at 10:06:16 (PDT)

anthropology student,

As I said before, you are really arrogant. You claim only your word is legitimate, yet you made so many mistakes in your expertise. Remember the "WF attraction to AM" forum, all those mistakes on genetics you made (dominant and recessive having nothing to do with hair growth, definition of phenotype)? It's posted on the internet for everyone to view.

For someone like you who makes so many mistakes, how can we trust you? Not only do you make mistakes, but you also love to twist your words around to fit your own ego, because you obviously have no logical truth in your own words.

You were wrong when you stated my links were "aryan" hate pages. When I pointed this out, you switched your words again and said they still discredit themselves, except the Scientific American magazine. You only stated that because they said mean things about China, this discredits themselves. Is that your only basis for avoiding the facts? Please define what is credible, not personal bias.

Who's standard says the Washingon Post is mediocre at best, and therefore incredible? Of course, just vain YOU. Check out www.pulitzer.org - it has won considerable pulitzer prizes throughout the decades. How many newspapers have won that many pulitzer prizes?

Even with the Scientific American article, I love how you only refer to two sentences at the end of the article. The title of the article is "CHINA SYNDROME - China's eugenics law makes trouble for science and business". It's an article about scientists like the U.K.'s Genetical Society and the American Society of Human Genetics expressing disapproval at China's eugenics laws.

The abortion issue is relevant, because it's used as a weapon by the Chinese government to control birth patterns. So I asked you, "Do you agree to abort a fetus, even when healthy with no genetic defect, and can take care of itself at adulthood, because it is FEMALE?" It's a simple yes or no question, but it's happening in China.
How is that going off topic?

Finally, you keep saying that you refuse to reply to this wacky eugenics topic, but so far you have been the most consistent replier. Does it touch a special nerve in you? If you were in China, would you be able to find a wife? Would you survive a eugenics program? Do you have the favorable genes/traits a woman would seek out to pass on to children? So far, you have proven to have mediocore credentials at best in your own field, and your reasoning ability is flaky; something tells me you are easily expendible. So, why do you keep replying to the eugenics topic, and giving dignity to this topic (and keep it alive) by acknowledging this subject?????

B. Lee Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 19:01:26 (PDT)

"Have you noticed a highly disproportionate ratio of males/females, especially in the rural areas?"

definitely, in rural china nearly all the villages are women and old people. the young men have left to find jobs in cities and leaving the countryside in much more poverty than ever. the question becomes, have you even been to china to begin criticizing these things?
anthropology student Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 12:56:09 (PDT)

Po:

In that case...what do you think is the ideal height for women...and for men？

Beijing Angelique Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 11:26:46 (PDT)

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