Speaking of which, no offense, but Chinese people are, on average, not very tall, so when it says that these dudes are crazy tall, how tall are we actually talking here? I have cousins who are 6 ft that were such a rare sight when they visited China that strangers would ask for pictures with them.
I don't think it's genetic, because kids of Chinese extraction in my city (of which there are tons cause this is Vancouver) are the same height as everyone else. Meanwhile, this school seems to be firmly in the "burgeoning new Chinese middle class" category, so probably most of the kids there grew up on a more Western style diet, with more calories, meat and so forth. So they're probably mostly Western-size, no doubt towering over both their elders and poorer kids, and when they get old will have Western rates of heart disease etc.
Height is tied mainly with nutrition at an early age, so having a western diet when growing up would tend to produce kids that have the same growth curve as typical western kids. In males, there's a little influence of testosterone, as I recall, being one of the signals that turns growth off toward the end of puberty.
Yeah, that's why Koreans are you usually taller than other East/South East Asians. Different diets.
Or at least South Koreans. North Koreans are usually shorter than most other ethnic groups in general, since they're all starving, cause Kim Jong-Un ate everyone else's food.
Also, holy shit Nezchan you changed your picture (though its still someone nom noming on bread so I guess its not that big a change)
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