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Originally Posted by Unregistered/
more immigrants who become citizens drive the average down. just another wasteful study to justify some researcher's existence.
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Exactly. When I saw the blurb on the news this AM and learned that the Dutch were the tallest my first reaction was that "So What" The United States is a cross section of the entire world. What if we took only those Americans with a Western European ancestory, how would that affect the 'average" height?
The news report tries to make it seem like we are becoming a third world nation with more poor people and horrible health care and that is the reason our people are not as tall as the Dutch. Once again the media and its lapdogs take what is good about America (the "melting pot" - not the "salad bowl") and turn it into something bad.
For shame - for shame