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You would assume wrongly: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Seat_for_people_with_disabilities_to_use_a_pit_latrine_squatting_pan_%28Pakistan%2

You would assume wrongly: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Seat_for_people_with_disabilities_to_use_a_pit_latrine_squatting_pan_%28Pakistan%29_%285600799213%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Seat_for... Also, as a person who grew up in "developing world" (though by now thoroughly "developed," i.e. become a part of EU), how are you imagining the world? That people don't have chairs? Just because I might squat while eating on a camping trip to a forest doesn't mean I don't know what a table looks like. Most of that legendary squatting happens in situations a westerner would just either stand or sit on the ground.

alistairSH 8y ago
Where did I say any of that? Of course people sit in chairs, when they're available. But, when they aren't, people in many parts of the world will squat (vs Westerners who remain standing, or sit on the ground).
- LaGrange 8y ago
  That amount of squatting will help you about as much as walking to your nearest bus stop every day. It's really not that much. The image westerners have comes from a shock of seeing anyone squatting ever, not from how much the "slavs" actually squat.
  - alistairSH 8y ago
    It's not that squatting, in general, is helpful. It's that if you don't squat, you lose the ability to squat comfortably. I was initially responding to a comment about squatting blowing out knees, which doesn't seem to be a problem in regions where adults continue to squat some of the time.
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    > That amount of squatting will help you about as much as walking to your nearest bus stop every day With general fitness, sure. With squatting form, though, that kind of low-volume but regular practice once the movement is established will do quite well at maintaining it. Squatting doesn't hurt Western ones because of poor general fitness, but bad form.

alistairSH 8y ago

Where did I say any of that? Of course people sit in chairs, when they're available. But, when they aren't, people in many parts of the world will squat (vs Westerners who remain standing, or sit on the ground).

LaGrange 8y ago
That amount of squatting will help you about as much as walking to your nearest bus stop every day. It's really not that much. The image westerners have comes from a shock of seeing anyone squatting ever, not from how much the "slavs" actually squat.
- alistairSH 8y ago
  It's not that squatting, in general, is helpful. It's that if you don't squat, you lose the ability to squat comfortably. I was initially responding to a comment about squatting blowing out knees, which doesn't seem to be a problem in regions where adults continue to squat some of the time.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > That amount of squatting will help you about as much as walking to your nearest bus stop every day With general fitness, sure. With squatting form, though, that kind of low-volume but regular practice once the movement is established will do quite well at maintaining it. Squatting doesn't hurt Western ones because of poor general fitness, but bad form.