Kun-chan:
>I don't think that I've ever seen a Japanese girl - let alone a guy! -
who
>is shorter than me.
>
>Fumiyo is my height ... Yukiyo was taller ... the girls in Kujaku and
>the Japanese grocery department are my height ... the guys in the
Japanses
>grocery department are a lot taller than me ... Yasu is taller than me 
>...
>Even Yukio-san is taller than me, and he's a couple of generations older
>than me! Toshi is taller than me ... I think that Asuka, Fumiyo's
younger
>sister, was taller than me even back in high school ... the guy from the
>Japanese book section, and the girl there, are taller than me, too. I
>think that even the middle aged woman from Kujaku is only my height!
>
>So why are you saying "These are Japanese people, remember"? I'm about
>5'6" or so ... the tallest of the Japanese people I know is about 6" or
>so (I suck at putting a number to a height).

Here in California, there are Japanese people all over the place and I
tower over practically every single one of them. Most of the girls don't
even come up to my shoulders, or chest for that matter and I'm 5'8".

>Remember - this isn't pre-war Japan when there wasn't much red meat in
>the Japanese diet ... the Japanese have been getting taller each
>generation (apart from one, during the war some time, when they got
>shorter), according to the figures from class ... So saying what you
>did is pretty silly.
>
>Being Japanese does not equate to being short any more.

Well, over here they've got the milk, beef, spinach, etc. yet they're all
still vertically challenged. Maybe it's the water where you are.

-Ted Wang