30 Times People Traveled To Japan And Realized They’re Too Tall For It
Perhaps it's the geography of the country; the wide-open spaces of the Prarie, the vast cornfields in the midwest and the deserts of Nevada, Arizona, and Utah - Americans are comfortable with big. Big cars, big meals, big houses.
On the other side is Japan; 126 million people squeezed on to four main islands, with a total area 26 times smaller than the USA. The Japanese have learned to be economical with space - whether it be technology, houses or dioramas - which can be an issue when tall people visit the country. Heads are bumped on low doors, showers are too short, and train seats... well, it's cozy, put it that way.
This list, compiled by Bored Panda, shows tall people problems in this compact country, and we'd recommend bringing a helmet if you're over 6ft! Scroll down below to check out the list for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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The cool and informative blog Japanese Journey by a 29-year-old man called Johannes gives some interesting insights into the struggles of being tall in Japan and travel tips to deal with it. Even though the 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) German is of average height in his own country, the average male height in Japan is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in), so he does stand out. Here are a few of his everyday problems of being head and shoulders above people almost all of the time.
Bumping your head: When your body height is above the Japanese average, you will very likely bump your head. Most of the time, you will be aware of low door frames and the like and therefore take care. In old buildings, such as the shops in higashi chaya district, the shop assistants may even tell you to take care. However there will be instances when you won’t be expecting things to hang that low and therefore be less attentive. Funny accidents are bound to happen.
My own favorite items to bump my head against are the handles in the Tokyo metro trains. They hang at the height of my forehead, maybe at 172 cm. In the perfect position for the heads of people like me. This usually happens up to five times per trip, then I start to get it.
6’3” Lived In A Traditional Japanese House In Japan For Two Months. There Were Lots Of Exposed Wooden Beams
Things don’t fit: Many things won’t fit you. At my size, it is not that hard to find fitting clothes or shoes. However things that are shared by everyone, such as toilet slippers in restaurants, will be too small. Same goes for the interior features such as benches, tables and sinks.
When I was sitting at at the table in my girlfriend’s parent’s house for the first time, I was surprised by how low but still comfortable the table and benches were. Fortunately it didn’t take me long to get accustomed to it.
Asked A Guy To Take A Photo Of Me And My Friends With Some Bathing Snow Monkeys In Nagano, Japan. Checked The Photo Later
Life Being Tall In Japan. Side Note: This Was A Hit With The Crowd And There Were Lots Of Giggles
Being asked about your body height: “How tall are you?” is a sentence I haven’t been asked in the last decade in Europe. In Japan things are different.
Maybe one out of three times when my girlfriend introduces me to someone, usually women, I hear it. And while this makes me somehow feel like I’m positively impressive, the reactions that are shown upon hearing “180 センチ” (1.80 m) are even more pleasing.
Seeing far ahead on busy streets: When I went out on a Saturday evening in Shinjuku, the first thing I noticed were masses of people. The second thing was that, even though the area was packed, I could see anything. “Legolas! What do your elf eyes see?” shouts Aragorn in the back of my head.
Because I was a bit taller than most of the other short people there, I was able to actually see the end of the road without a head appearing in my view. “So this is how basketball players feel all the time,” I thought and enjoyed the evening.
Shark Bait
Everytime I Visit Japan I Feel Like I Don't Fit In... I Wonder Why?
We Came, We Saw, We Raised The Roof
Stayed One Night In This Hostel In Japan. My Head Connected With This Light 8 Times
If I Could Summarize My Recent Trip To Japan In One Photo, This Would Be It
I'm 6'4" and the struggle was real
Glad I am only 5”2”, tee hee. Sometimes being short is an advantage.
Loved My First Trip To Japan
The Free Brain Cell Removal Rooflines Are A Common Fixture In Japan
Meanwhile In Tokyo
Just Got Back From A Trip To Japan. I Know I'm Tall. Didn't Realize Just *How* Tall Compared To All The Japanese Folks
Traditional Japanese Home. Clearing Doorways Is A Challenge
Just Found R/Tall. I'm Happy To Finally Be Among My Kind. Here's Me In Japan Trying To Fit In
I have known a number of Chinese/Japanese people that their parents are short, moved to the U.S. had kids and the kids are tall. Makes me wonder what's in the food.
So My Brother (6'7"), My Sister (6'0"), And Myself (6'4") Went To Japan... We Had A Hard Time Getting In
Tall People Problems #5535 - On A Train In Japan
My Shower At My Hotel In Japan. I Am Not Pleased Nor Is My Neck
Being 6 Ft 3 In Was Pretty Tough In Japan
To Tall Guys Travelling In Japan: I Feel You, Brothers. I'm 195 Cm (6'4")
Note: this post originally had 42 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
nobody understands your pain america because we don't know what imperial system means.
Conversion is trivially easy if you have a smartphone. There is no app to fix the problem these people are having.
Yup. No idea what all these strange numbers mean 😄
To be fair me as a middle schooler (going into eighth grade) we have to use the metric system in science even though were used to the imperial system
The imperial is a bit weird. Using feet to measure height. Especially as everyones feet have different sizes... Well, I gathered I would be 6'4" using that strange system, which these pictures have shown would be a real problem. Have not been to Japan yet, and this article makes me wonder if I should reconsider ever going there.
It's because they wish they were still part of the British Empire. :D
And so do the Brits ;)
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I'm willing to bet a lot of these people are from the UK. You probably didn't know this because you seem pretty ignorant, but we use feet to measure height too. Quit being a xenophobic wank.
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No, only you are uneducated and probably skipped the 7th grade... dude, the conversions are hella easy.
Why convert? Everyone in the whole world uses the metric system except the US (and even in the US the armed forces and the scientists use it) - "oh look, the US is out of step with the whole of the rest of the world... As usual".
As a short person myself, Japan looks like an attractive place to visit. As an adult I have to climb on all my counter tops to get to things, I couldn't see my face in the bathroom mirror because it was too high up. America is not built for short people. Worst thing is the bus, I can't reach the hand rail above my head.
I'm in the UK and when i am on the bus, my feet dangle like i'm a child !
I hate when my pockets get caught on cabinet knobs because I'm short. Japan looks awesome.
Im five four and a teenager. Would i be tall in japan?
Average male in Japan is 5' 6 and average female is 5'1.
It's NOT easy when you're big in Japaaaaaaan, oh you big in Japan. Tonight... ♬♪
Big in Japan, ooh, the eastern sea's so blue
I don't know....Europe wasn't made for short people either. Man those Armitage Shanks had me tip-towing LOL
Why were you towing a tip?
These photos make me want to visit Japan. As a "short" person, I feel like I live in a world made for giants in the US.
As a short person living in a Europe I feel your pain.
Actually, they aren't all that short. I'm 1m71, and I fit right in, for the most part. (except shoes and some clothes, the body shapes don't match at all, lol)
when Western thinks everything is small in Japan (and Asia), well, we have similar thought about you. You look huge for us. When 5'2" of me talking to my 6'4" European boss for 20 minutes, it's like torture. I hope he got me neck massagers for bonus
I hope he got one, too. My posture was totally fucked up in school because my friends were all small while I am just 5'11'''. I always had to duck to understand them right.
At a whopping 5 feet (sadly I was not blessed with the “height” gene) I think I would feel pretty cozy in Japan. No longer would I have to rely on taller people to get stuff down from higher shelves for me.
There are no “higher shelves” in Japan.
Generally speaking, the world is very difficult for us tall people. Just the height of things like kitchen counters, sinks, toilets, etc., it's all for diddy people. No wonder all us tall people have backache (and neckache and everything ache!)
Perfect for me and my 5'1" frame!
looks like the country for me - i'm 1 meter and 63 cm high
I really feel so short after viewing this.. *chin up, squares shoulders*
I have been on a lot of business trips to eastern Asian countries and as someone that is 6’3” tall, I can relate to a lot of these posts. No matter if it was China, Japan or Indonesia. People in that area of the world are way smaller in height than the average European for example. And don't get started on flying...
I’m 153 cm and in Korea everyone thinks I’m short but I love japan because everyone else was also around that lol
I have been driving east Asian cars for eight years now. As an American woman at 5'1" tall, I have finally found a car engineered for my height. (1.55 m)
Can you name a specific make and model? I'm 5'1" also. This sounds like a dream.
Being tall.....................................anywhere
My necks hurts after reading This!
Accidental decapitation
I want to be short so when im old i can be a small cute lil old lady im weird like that
Im only 5'10" (and a woman) and could see over everyone's heads on the subway. Admittedly there were a few guys that were the same height or taller but not many. Although I have to say that they are not all that short anymore. It seems like every generation is getting taller.
Actually, they aren't all that short,j these are just pics of people on the tall side of the scale that would have trouble in a lot of places. I'm 1m71, and I fit right in, for the most part. (except shoes and some clothes, the body shapes don't match at all, lol)
I was going to say! Some of these pictures give the impression that everything in Japan, and Japanese people in general are really short when most of the scenarios depicted are showing people who are at least 6 feet tall or more, which is definitely on the higher side of human height measurements (bar the one station where they literally had cushions with warning lines on them, so clearly they KNOW it's a short roof).
Try to imagine the problems that Japanese people could have in the USA…
It reminds me of the scene from Lost In Translation when Bill Murray tries to use the shower. I'm 6'4 and have been living in Japan for 12 years and it really is no problem most of the time.
Lots of low doorways. We get it.
I am 5'0...I am perfect for Japan...
boyfriend is 6ft 2, He never had any real height problems in Tokyo, and the Japanese height is catching up with european height standards, we saw quite a few very tall Japanese people.
they'd probably change that eventually. last time I was in Tokyo, many of the youths I noticed are quite on the tall side, boys especially. genetics are changing?
No. Diets are changing.
Change takes time, though. 9 years in Korea and it's still all made for short-ish people. Meanwhile, Korean youth is growing taller and taller.
Yes
Improvements in diet and economic growth have spurred the change in the average heights of the people in the Asian Rim countries. To give an example in my own American Caucasian family that started out as farmers and blacksmiths in America's past. I have some pants made from canvas like material that my great-granddad had. From the length of the pants legs, he could not have been over 4 foot 8 inches. All my dad's brothers and sisters, except one, were over 5'8 to 5'10. A gap of one generation was all it took to bring about an increase in average height of a little over 12 to 13 inches. From the stories my dad told me when he was alive, his granddad travelled the South during the winter and early spring months plying his other skills as a blacksmith. I still have some hand made nails/spikes he used to make. BTW, both my dad's older sisters, he was the baby of the 6 kids his mom and dad had, were between 5' 10" and 5' 11" tall.
i want to visit Japan but i dont want to have to worry about being knocked unconscious lol
When I complained about towering over the people of Mexico City at 185cm (6'2.5") my daughter who is 178cm (5'11"), and had already been there pointed out, "Yeah, people stare at you. But when you ride the Metro you're the only one who can breathe."
So this is the perfect place for me, being a shorty!
I hate being tall
Even for Tall Japanese People ...... The Struggle Is Real! LOL
Tall people should never visit a heliport in Japan or any other Asian country.
I'm below average height in Australia, but a little taller than average here in Japan. It's amazing. Everything is actually the right height for me. I can reach things, and don't have my feet dangling off chairs!
Thankfully I'm only 5'1"
I found the worst was when it started to rain ... all umbrella were at eye height, got my eyes almost poked out several times and just gave up. Later when sporting my own umbrella I finally had a less near-blinding experience
It appears that Japan was made for hobbits
Being tall is a more of recent development as people started to gain more access to better food and medicine with in the last century.
Guess you are right, when you see an original uniform from the napoleonic army, you can see how small people were 200 years ago....
really? Thats cool!! I wonder what new developments there'll be in future.. I anticipate the access to immortality, or at least to live a max lifespan of 102 years !! :D
No not really, I think it is the genetic buildup of a person. I don't think food has a big impact on the height of a person.
Actually, it does in the long run. What we eat is partially our building material. A pregnant woman eating a better quality food will grow a healthier child, and the child eating enough of this better food is more likely to develop a bigger and robust skeleton and muscle structure. So, yes, it's genetics, but also food and sports.
@Vic upper comment if about evolution (and how life conditions affect DNA of generations), not life on one person
no, it is because asia have smaller trees so they can easily reach the fruit. but western countries have taller trees. so ppl got taller to reach the fruits.
i think difference in heights is because of some factors like cultural differences, epidemic diseases that the nation had, weather of the geography......etc.
sorry i was trying to be sarcastic.
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I need to reach taller trees for fruits then..
Plenty of other places in the world to visit instead of whining. Do that.
I'm 5'7 1/2" I wonder how crammed the spaces would be for me.
I live in Korea, and although things are built a little bigger here than in Japan, they are built for someone around 5'4"-5'7" which just so happens to include my height. I love it. I buy clothes my size without going to the children's section ever. I am at a comfortable height for tables and chairs always. It was one of the aspects of culture shock I didn't expect. How much better life is when you are around the average height of a country.
Iam 6.3 and I would love to visit Japan one day .I don’t think doorways would be a big deal but if the hotel ceiling is too low that would be sucks lol
I am not Japanese, buy being an Asian, I am pretty offended by these photos. Go stay in your own country, if you cant stop complaining
Oml I'm 157cm and my boyfriend is 162cm this really seems like the perfect place to visit.
I would like to visit Japan someday. I'm short, so I would be okay :D
Everyone knows Japanese people are averagely "short". 🙄 Why are they surprised? 🤦
I am 1.60 and when I was in Japan I still felt short...Honestly, most people were taller than me...
Uh, these are all above-the-average tall people to begin with. It’s kind of funny but not exactly rational.
My Japanese teacher stood 4'2". I stand 6'5". She told me that I was "Waste of material". Hai kashikomarimashita...
I'm lucky to have a hard skull, because I'm only 1'76m tall, and got in some of those situations myself.
For anyone who knows: would i be tall in japan at 5'4? Same height as sssniperwolf :D
This isn't a comment on the nature of Japan, this is an ego trip for people who constantly 'brag' about their height!
One thing I loved about living in Japan was that I could finally reach everything!
The thing is... those guys have it lucky... the REAL problem is being 6 foot tall... They CLEARLY see that the door is going to hit them square in the face... At 6ft you are EXACTLY the height to hit EVERYTHING with your forehead and you don't notice that... at leas the first few time...
To prevent this problems, boycott Japan, they are killing whales
I feel like there are better ways to campaign for that to stop than just not visiting the country - it doesn't really send a particular message and most people you buy stuff from aren't going to have whaling connections. It's not like the United Arab Emirates where the country is built on the backs of poor people and basically only good for the rich.
I didn't have any trouble when I went to school in Hong Kong in 1969. Of course, I was only 5 at the time. Can ya spot me in the crowd? :-) Rhonda-Hon...e3c03a.jpg
well, i would not expect japanese people to build their country so it can be suitable for tall people from far away
Has the Olympic Village 2020 been built to the same standards ? Welcome to the basketball players of the world. Welcome to the Dutch competitors. What is the ingredient in the Japanese Cuisine inhibiting evolving to World standard height ?
I would fit in with the seven Dwarfs in Disneyland.
Over dramatized. I’m 6 foot 3. I just visited over Christmas to see my fiancé and meet her parents for the first time, The biggest struggle was the beds.. My feet were never covered and there was usually not enough room on toilets.. The old traditional houses, that’s another story.. Those crazy staircases.
20 years in Japan. 194 cm. My sholders are bent.
I lived in Vietnam for almost two years and had the exact same problem lol!
Im not tall, 175cm, but China got the best of me. Imagine clubbing in platforms and you are way beyond everybody else!
there are a lot of guys out there that are 5'4" to 5'7" who would be glad to trade places with you...look forward to getting into your 70's... bodies start shrinking when you get older...
Japan is perfect for me. I'm 155 cm :D Europe, I don't think so :(
I'm following a few tall celebrities from Japan and I'm just imagining them. Hahaha
What about for the height of 5'10"?
If you are a woman, you buy clothes at h&m, shoes online or in men's section and end up hurting your back cooking or doing the dishes.
Karan Vyas easy
🤣 Oh shut up you lanky pricks... just duck you dumb ass bean pole... stop showing off... YOU chose to go to Japan.
Oh please! They love it, "oh no I'm too tall it's such a bother!!" You can still reach everything, you can still bend or bow and get smaller. Try being 5' 1" I can't just magically get taller to reach stuff, I can't see anything at concerts, I see only the top inch of my head in the bathroom mirror, I have to buy children's shoes and gloves which make me look like a child of course, because they're pink with flowers etc, I can't use the top shelf in my fridge, my feet don't touch the floor in any bathroom when I use the toilet, except American ones, I don't live there so... on packed transport I'm face to arm pit with everyone, especially gross in summer, plus everyone is breathing down on me gross, everyone thinks I'm 15 when I'm 34, all jeans and trousers are at least 5-6" too long, so yes tell me your awful life of having to watch where you go for a week on holidays?! I guess I can buy tax free runners.
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nobody understands your pain america because we don't know what imperial system means.
Conversion is trivially easy if you have a smartphone. There is no app to fix the problem these people are having.
Yup. No idea what all these strange numbers mean 😄
To be fair me as a middle schooler (going into eighth grade) we have to use the metric system in science even though were used to the imperial system
The imperial is a bit weird. Using feet to measure height. Especially as everyones feet have different sizes... Well, I gathered I would be 6'4" using that strange system, which these pictures have shown would be a real problem. Have not been to Japan yet, and this article makes me wonder if I should reconsider ever going there.
It's because they wish they were still part of the British Empire. :D
And so do the Brits ;)
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I'm willing to bet a lot of these people are from the UK. You probably didn't know this because you seem pretty ignorant, but we use feet to measure height too. Quit being a xenophobic wank.
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No, only you are uneducated and probably skipped the 7th grade... dude, the conversions are hella easy.
Why convert? Everyone in the whole world uses the metric system except the US (and even in the US the armed forces and the scientists use it) - "oh look, the US is out of step with the whole of the rest of the world... As usual".
As a short person myself, Japan looks like an attractive place to visit. As an adult I have to climb on all my counter tops to get to things, I couldn't see my face in the bathroom mirror because it was too high up. America is not built for short people. Worst thing is the bus, I can't reach the hand rail above my head.
I'm in the UK and when i am on the bus, my feet dangle like i'm a child !
I hate when my pockets get caught on cabinet knobs because I'm short. Japan looks awesome.
Im five four and a teenager. Would i be tall in japan?
Average male in Japan is 5' 6 and average female is 5'1.
It's NOT easy when you're big in Japaaaaaaan, oh you big in Japan. Tonight... ♬♪
Big in Japan, ooh, the eastern sea's so blue
I don't know....Europe wasn't made for short people either. Man those Armitage Shanks had me tip-towing LOL
Why were you towing a tip?
These photos make me want to visit Japan. As a "short" person, I feel like I live in a world made for giants in the US.
As a short person living in a Europe I feel your pain.
Actually, they aren't all that short. I'm 1m71, and I fit right in, for the most part. (except shoes and some clothes, the body shapes don't match at all, lol)
when Western thinks everything is small in Japan (and Asia), well, we have similar thought about you. You look huge for us. When 5'2" of me talking to my 6'4" European boss for 20 minutes, it's like torture. I hope he got me neck massagers for bonus
I hope he got one, too. My posture was totally fucked up in school because my friends were all small while I am just 5'11'''. I always had to duck to understand them right.
At a whopping 5 feet (sadly I was not blessed with the “height” gene) I think I would feel pretty cozy in Japan. No longer would I have to rely on taller people to get stuff down from higher shelves for me.
There are no “higher shelves” in Japan.
Generally speaking, the world is very difficult for us tall people. Just the height of things like kitchen counters, sinks, toilets, etc., it's all for diddy people. No wonder all us tall people have backache (and neckache and everything ache!)
Perfect for me and my 5'1" frame!
looks like the country for me - i'm 1 meter and 63 cm high
I really feel so short after viewing this.. *chin up, squares shoulders*
I have been on a lot of business trips to eastern Asian countries and as someone that is 6’3” tall, I can relate to a lot of these posts. No matter if it was China, Japan or Indonesia. People in that area of the world are way smaller in height than the average European for example. And don't get started on flying...
I’m 153 cm and in Korea everyone thinks I’m short but I love japan because everyone else was also around that lol
I have been driving east Asian cars for eight years now. As an American woman at 5'1" tall, I have finally found a car engineered for my height. (1.55 m)
Can you name a specific make and model? I'm 5'1" also. This sounds like a dream.
Being tall.....................................anywhere
My necks hurts after reading This!
Accidental decapitation
I want to be short so when im old i can be a small cute lil old lady im weird like that
Im only 5'10" (and a woman) and could see over everyone's heads on the subway. Admittedly there were a few guys that were the same height or taller but not many. Although I have to say that they are not all that short anymore. It seems like every generation is getting taller.
Actually, they aren't all that short,j these are just pics of people on the tall side of the scale that would have trouble in a lot of places. I'm 1m71, and I fit right in, for the most part. (except shoes and some clothes, the body shapes don't match at all, lol)
I was going to say! Some of these pictures give the impression that everything in Japan, and Japanese people in general are really short when most of the scenarios depicted are showing people who are at least 6 feet tall or more, which is definitely on the higher side of human height measurements (bar the one station where they literally had cushions with warning lines on them, so clearly they KNOW it's a short roof).
Try to imagine the problems that Japanese people could have in the USA…
It reminds me of the scene from Lost In Translation when Bill Murray tries to use the shower. I'm 6'4 and have been living in Japan for 12 years and it really is no problem most of the time.
Lots of low doorways. We get it.
I am 5'0...I am perfect for Japan...
boyfriend is 6ft 2, He never had any real height problems in Tokyo, and the Japanese height is catching up with european height standards, we saw quite a few very tall Japanese people.
they'd probably change that eventually. last time I was in Tokyo, many of the youths I noticed are quite on the tall side, boys especially. genetics are changing?
No. Diets are changing.
Change takes time, though. 9 years in Korea and it's still all made for short-ish people. Meanwhile, Korean youth is growing taller and taller.
Yes
Improvements in diet and economic growth have spurred the change in the average heights of the people in the Asian Rim countries. To give an example in my own American Caucasian family that started out as farmers and blacksmiths in America's past. I have some pants made from canvas like material that my great-granddad had. From the length of the pants legs, he could not have been over 4 foot 8 inches. All my dad's brothers and sisters, except one, were over 5'8 to 5'10. A gap of one generation was all it took to bring about an increase in average height of a little over 12 to 13 inches. From the stories my dad told me when he was alive, his granddad travelled the South during the winter and early spring months plying his other skills as a blacksmith. I still have some hand made nails/spikes he used to make. BTW, both my dad's older sisters, he was the baby of the 6 kids his mom and dad had, were between 5' 10" and 5' 11" tall.
i want to visit Japan but i dont want to have to worry about being knocked unconscious lol
When I complained about towering over the people of Mexico City at 185cm (6'2.5") my daughter who is 178cm (5'11"), and had already been there pointed out, "Yeah, people stare at you. But when you ride the Metro you're the only one who can breathe."
So this is the perfect place for me, being a shorty!
I hate being tall
Even for Tall Japanese People ...... The Struggle Is Real! LOL
Tall people should never visit a heliport in Japan or any other Asian country.
I'm below average height in Australia, but a little taller than average here in Japan. It's amazing. Everything is actually the right height for me. I can reach things, and don't have my feet dangling off chairs!
Thankfully I'm only 5'1"
I found the worst was when it started to rain ... all umbrella were at eye height, got my eyes almost poked out several times and just gave up. Later when sporting my own umbrella I finally had a less near-blinding experience
It appears that Japan was made for hobbits
Being tall is a more of recent development as people started to gain more access to better food and medicine with in the last century.
Guess you are right, when you see an original uniform from the napoleonic army, you can see how small people were 200 years ago....
really? Thats cool!! I wonder what new developments there'll be in future.. I anticipate the access to immortality, or at least to live a max lifespan of 102 years !! :D
No not really, I think it is the genetic buildup of a person. I don't think food has a big impact on the height of a person.
Actually, it does in the long run. What we eat is partially our building material. A pregnant woman eating a better quality food will grow a healthier child, and the child eating enough of this better food is more likely to develop a bigger and robust skeleton and muscle structure. So, yes, it's genetics, but also food and sports.
@Vic upper comment if about evolution (and how life conditions affect DNA of generations), not life on one person
no, it is because asia have smaller trees so they can easily reach the fruit. but western countries have taller trees. so ppl got taller to reach the fruits.
i think difference in heights is because of some factors like cultural differences, epidemic diseases that the nation had, weather of the geography......etc.
sorry i was trying to be sarcastic.
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I need to reach taller trees for fruits then..