In all honesty, this is a huge one. Having gone around Europe a couple weeks ago, I noticed store and restaurant staff would greet some people in English and s

In all honesty, this is a huge one. Having gone around Europe a couple weeks ago, I noticed store and restaurant staff would greet some people in English and some in the local language, very rarely seeming to use the wrong language. Sitting on one particularly busy restaurant street, the pattern suddenly became obvious to me: people over a certain weight were always greeted in English. People who were middle aged and not obese were always greeted in the local language. As an American myself, weights I’ve grown accustomed to as “normal” really are inconceivably big by world standards. It made me realize that even though obesity rates may be high around the world, the amount of weight by which they’re obese are completely different leagues.