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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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po:
Wow...
You really know what you are talking about. Very cool. Really profound...
In addition...I think that society place so much value on height for males just because it's harder to grow bones than it is not to. People can easily choose to be short (by not sleeping ect.)but it's harder for a person to just choose to be tall.
Height can be a notion of masculinity..power ect...but it's value really just comes from people thinking that height represents "good nutrition" ..."quality of life.." or something like that.
That's why people in the west care less about height than people in Asia. Asian people feel a need to prove their improvement on the quality of life through emphasizing height. That's probably more true a long time ago than it is now. So...that's another aspect on the underlying value of height.
Angelique ( F.O.B Beijnger)
Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 22:17:02 (PDT)
dan,
Forgive me if I annoy you, but your claims of Asian height are so grandiose, I find them to be fascinating. In fact, they are so grandiose, I sometimes wonder if you may be overexaggerating, or even lying.
First, you talked about a 15 year old friend from Taiwan who's 6'6" and growing. In the entire Taiwanese national basketball league, there are only several Taiwanese b-ball players 6'6" and above (less than a dozen). There are no 7 footers. 6'6" is an unusually tall height for Taiwanese (or any race); there probably are no more than 50 Taiwanese 6'6" or up in the entire country. And Taiwan's population is 22 million. So the chances of you knowing this guy is, say, 50 out of 22 million (or 11 million males)?!
Second, you talk about your local friends who are all 5'10" to 6'5", suggesting an average of 6'1"?!. You say you're from Los Angeles. LA has a large number of Asians, so naturally there would be alot of tall Asians. But in terms of overall height distribution and averages, LA Asians are no different from Asians of any other major American city. I know, I've been to LA, and 6'1" is not the average. There are also many medium and short Asians in LA.
Third, you said, "most asian males at my age are over 5"10". I've met significant numbers of Asians of every nationality. My observation: for 20 year old Asian males, it's more like 30% to 40% (far off from "most") are over 5'10". See the discrepency in our observations?
Fourth, you said, "around 70% of the guys around my age(20) are above 5"10 in Taiwan". I already covered that in my last post.
Finally, you said in the "Asian Potential in Sports" forum, "whites were much, much smaller compared to asians(chinese) thousand years ago.
chinese would be considered gaints to the little whites and blacks.
ancient chinese poems have suggested that men under 7 foot are not "men". all the ancient war weapons they digged out are huge and heavy as hell! many famouse, historic, chinese warriors were documented as over 7 or 8 footers."
Uhhh, I'm not going to this in detail, but it's an example of how you can overexaggerate.
This is an open forum, and I would love to hear your response. But can you see why I can be skeptical of your claims? I don't have anything against tall Asians, and I don't approve of the small Asian pre-label, but we don't get anywhere by lying, either.
B. Lee
Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 20:01:04 (PDT)
Well...I'm a 6'4" 205 lbs Chinese American. I've never really thought about my height until recently b/c I was so skinny growing up and it made me feel like a bean pole, but in recent years I've begun to fill out b/c of working out and also I'm just maturing (now in my mid 20's). I think I'm starting to enjoy the fact that all sorts of people can actually believe that Asians come in all shapes and sizes and that the stereotype of us being small is an over generalization.
moogoo
Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 20:25:40 (PDT)
The other day I went the Horse Tracks with some friends. Then I notice a bunch of White Males that were 4'11".
I've decided in light of this new sample of White Male Jockeys, that white people are the shortest people on Earth. The population of short white jockey must be greater than any pygmy tribe. This just shows that whites are short.
Don't believe the hype, white people are the shortest. They just pretend that when they go to asia that asian are short. They are mere covering up their hidden population of short people that they force to ride horses.
It must be a genetic mutation that a descentant of an Irishman can get above 7'0" (i.e. Shaq O'Neil).
AC Dropout
Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 10:36:32 (PDT)
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