The reason why the Dutch are tall is they have less of a preference for shorter women: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/scientists-try-to-answer-wh

The reason why the Dutch are tall is they have less of a preference for shorter women: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/scientists-try-to-answer-why-dutch-people-are-so-tall https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/scientists-try... I used to work for an ISP in Amsterdam. I sent a network engineer to the US. He had never even had a passport before. When he returned, he told me: “I used to have a stereotype of Americans as short, fat people. Now I know it is a fact” (he was 1m95/6’6”)