[R-G] Can America Stand Tall Again?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

"Can America Stand Tall Again?" (Liberal and conservative pundits are 
fond of fretting about America's metaphorical "stature" in the world. 
Can America "stand tall"? Instead, they had better take the measure 
of American bodies and think about why Americans, once taller than 
Canadians and Europeans, have fallen relatively short.  E.g., "At 
just over five foot eleven, the average Canadian-born male from the 
1970s stands nearly an inch taller than his American counterpart. . . 
. In the space of about 140 years, the average Americans have gone 
from being three inches taller than the Dutch to three inches 
shorter."  Height is a good measure of nutritional status.  Not 
surprisingly, height is clearly correlated with class power: the 
ruling class stand taller than the classes they rule; and the more 
class power workers and their allies gain, making their nation more 
egalitarian, the taller their nation's average height will be) -- 
FULL TEXT: 
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/06/can-america-stand-tall-again.html>.
-- 
Yoshie

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