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Anecdotally I can confirm those stats for Sweden. Some of the things I was blown away by in Sweden are: 1) Everyone's beautiful 2) Everyone's super tall. I'm 1

Anecdotally I can confirm those stats for Sweden. Some of the things I was blown away by in Sweden are: 1) Everyone's beautiful 2) Everyone's super tall. I'm 184cm and saw multiple women every day that were taller than me, let alone men. In the US it's quite rare for me to see women taller than me. 3) Everyone's rather slim. It's nice to see a population at healthier weights than what I'm used to in the US 4) Not once did I find somebody who couldn't speak English, from workers at train stations to museums to airports. It was crazy. In contrast, Germans being about 50/50 matches up with my experience. Italy felt lower than 1/3 even in Venice, but I spent much less time there. Sweden sure is amazing; can't wait to visit again.

chrisbennet 5y ago
184cm = 6ft
- mywittyname 5y ago
  Okay, so this makes me wonder something. So 6 foot tall (72in) is like a magic number for American men. That's like the threshold for manliness in popular culture. If you were to plot the self-reported heights men in America, you'd absolutely see a dip at 70 and 71 inches, then a big spike at 72in. What's this magic number in various metric countries? 185cm seems like a sound choice, but I could see it being 190 in some places.
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  - solveit 5y ago
    180cm in Korea.
  - 1_player 5y ago
    190cm (6'3) being a threshold for "manliness", as you say, has no bearing on actual human average sizes and might just be your personal bias showing. I think there's definitely a threshold around 6' in English cultures, possibly 180 cm in Europe, but in my personal experience it's not seen an important metric as the magic 6' number in Anglo cultures.
    - CDRdude 5y ago
      > 190cm (6'3) being a threshold for "manliness", as you say, has no bearing on actual human average sizes and might just be your personal bias showing. Of course it has no bearing on a actual sizes! That’s why the commenter says “manliness in popular culture” and “self-reported heights”. He’s making the point that lots of men who are slightly shorter than 6 feet will lie and say they are 6 feet tall, and wondering if there is a comparable number in cm.
  - WastingMyTime89 5y ago
    > What's this magic number in various metric countries? There is no magic number here. The weird emphasis on height is very much an American peculiarity. Some (maybe most) women don't want to be in a relationship with a guy smaller than them when they wear heels and some like tall guys but that's pretty much it.
- adenozine 5y ago
  I appreciate the translation, but you should annotate your post, otherwise you risk someone thinking you did it spitefully, as though cm were lesser units. I ~think~ that's why someone downvoted you.
  - bawolff 5y ago
    At some point people need to stop reading malicious intent into things without evidence.
  - bogeholm 5y ago
    > as though cm were lesser units. To be fair, a cm _is_ less than a foot
  - chrisbennet 5y ago
    Forgive my trespass. I meant no spite or ill will. As an American, I had to converted the number to mm and the divided it by 25.4 and again by 12. I figured I save somebody else the trouble. (I upvoted you.)
- shock 5y ago
  The irony of this comment on this article is underrated.
vmception 5y ago
The other side of this is that there are some truly strange looking people as well. Like, almost matches the ideals in American media (which has been filled with Swedish models for nearly a century, setting our ideals from a young age) but an otherwise discarded iteration that would never be invited through our borders by the people already here. (The modeling agency, the au pair household, the guys.) You can experience it in advance with Tinder Passport.
admissionsguy 5y ago
> Not once did I find somebody who couldn't speak English, from workers at train stations to museums to airports. It was crazy It's crazier than that. I've moved to a small village in northern Sweden in the middle of nowhere, and everybody speaks English here, too. > Everyone's rather slim. Agreed, but Austria beats it - there, everyone is ripped :)
1_player 5y ago
What do point 1, 2 and 3 have to do with this thread?

chrisbennet 5y ago

184cm = 6ft

mywittyname 5y ago
Okay, so this makes me wonder something. So 6 foot tall (72in) is like a magic number for American men. That's like the threshold for manliness in popular culture. If you were to plot the self-reported heights men in America, you'd absolutely see a dip at 70 and 71 inches, then a big spike at 72in. What's this magic number in various metric countries? 185cm seems like a sound choice, but I could see it being 190 in some places.
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- solveit 5y ago
  180cm in Korea.
- 1_player 5y ago
  190cm (6'3) being a threshold for "manliness", as you say, has no bearing on actual human average sizes and might just be your personal bias showing. I think there's definitely a threshold around 6' in English cultures, possibly 180 cm in Europe, but in my personal experience it's not seen an important metric as the magic 6' number in Anglo cultures.
  - CDRdude 5y ago
    > 190cm (6'3) being a threshold for "manliness", as you say, has no bearing on actual human average sizes and might just be your personal bias showing. Of course it has no bearing on a actual sizes! That’s why the commenter says “manliness in popular culture” and “self-reported heights”. He’s making the point that lots of men who are slightly shorter than 6 feet will lie and say they are 6 feet tall, and wondering if there is a comparable number in cm.
- WastingMyTime89 5y ago
  > What's this magic number in various metric countries? There is no magic number here. The weird emphasis on height is very much an American peculiarity. Some (maybe most) women don't want to be in a relationship with a guy smaller than them when they wear heels and some like tall guys but that's pretty much it.
adenozine 5y ago
I appreciate the translation, but you should annotate your post, otherwise you risk someone thinking you did it spitefully, as though cm were lesser units. I ~think~ that's why someone downvoted you.
- bawolff 5y ago
  At some point people need to stop reading malicious intent into things without evidence.
- bogeholm 5y ago
  > as though cm were lesser units. To be fair, a cm _is_ less than a foot
- chrisbennet 5y ago
  Forgive my trespass. I meant no spite or ill will. As an American, I had to converted the number to mm and the divided it by 25.4 and again by 12. I figured I save somebody else the trouble. (I upvoted you.)
shock 5y ago
The irony of this comment on this article is underrated.

vmception 5y ago

The other side of this is that there are some truly strange looking people as well. Like, almost matches the ideals in American media (which has been filled with Swedish models for nearly a century, setting our ideals from a young age) but an otherwise discarded iteration that would never be invited through our borders by the people already here. (The modeling agency, the au pair household, the guys.) You can experience it in advance with Tinder Passport.

admissionsguy 5y ago

> Not once did I find somebody who couldn't speak English, from workers at train stations to museums to airports. It was crazy It's crazier than that. I've moved to a small village in northern Sweden in the middle of nowhere, and everybody speaks English here, too. > Everyone's rather slim. Agreed, but Austria beats it - there, everyone is ripped :)

1_player 5y ago

What do point 1, 2 and 3 have to do with this thread?