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You need to cite your sources on the US height claim. If you exclude Mexicans (who come from one of the shortest countries on Earth), the US is one of the _tall

• Retric 11y ago
  A source http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/04/usa http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/04/usa This surprising reappraisal of American and European physiques is the work of researcher John Komlos of Munich University. 'Much of the difference is due to the great social inequality that now exists in the United States,' Komlos told The Observer last week. 'In Europe, there is - in most countries - good health service provision for most members of society and plenty of protein in most people's diets. As a result, children do not suffer illnesses that would blight their growth or suffer problems of malnutrition. For that reason, we have continued to grow and grow.' http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pko37.htm http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pko37.htm The height of US-born non-Hispanic children and adolescents ages 2-19, born 1942-2002 in the NHANES Samples http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/lmumuenec/466.htm http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/lmumuenec/466.htm
• indubitablytrue 11y ago
  Man, people will get defensive over the strangest things when it comes to their in-group. edit: to be less specific about any particular group.