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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They can learn to take better care of themselves:
- Reduce or eliminate alcoholic beverages 
- Wear no-makeup makeup
- Don’t tan
- Move more , not just exercise but more more in general 
- Eat a healthy diet
- Don’t walk/drive and eat/drink
- Speak softly

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You must be thinking of Asian women. European women tan and drink a lot.[/quote]

Incorrect.  We don't really drink and there is major social shaming for women who abuse alcohol or get drunk. [b]As a woman in Europe,  you don't get drunk or fat. Both are unacceptable.  [/b]
To be fair, I haven't seen a lot of Hispanic or Black women here getting drunk either.  It's usually the white women who abuse alcohol - see below for research. And I don't think it's happy drunk either,  it's just a coping mechanism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2016/12/23/nine-charts-that-show-how-white-women-are-drinking-themselves-to-death/

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/09/1003980966/women-now-drink-as-much-as-men-and-suffer-health-effects-more-quickly[/quote]

LOL you clearly spent no time near pubs in working class neighborhoods in Britain on a Friday night.  Or at cheap Costa Brava resorts. [/quote]

1. British aren’t really European

When people say europe, mostly they are referring to the mainland

2. People for sure aren’t thinking about British people in the 20 pages of this thread

3. British and American convergence on many metrics is larger than British-mainland convergence

Look at obesity rates and life expectancy. On these metrics British and Americans are closer than either is to say France [/quote]

If British people “aren’t really European” then what continent do they “really” belong to? This is such a ridiculous argument.[/quote]
My DH is British, and I just told him that apparently, someone thinks that British people aren't really European, and he gave me the a look, like "WTF"? lol

American women definitely should not learn about geography or who drinks the most from European women.[/quote]

If your husband is really British he will know that the British identity wrt europe is complicated.

“ With little difficulty we can identify six possible meanings of European. Two are archaic and buried, but have a significant afterlife: to be European means to be Christian and to be European means to be white. Then there are three interlocking meanings which are more familiar. The first is geographical: Europe is the second smallest continent, a western extension of Eurasia. Are we part of it? The geographers say yes. Many Britons doubt it, for the second of those three interlocking meanings is, as Collins English Dictionary tells us, "the continent of Europe, except for the British Isles." (One wonders where that leaves Ireland.) This is a familiar usage. We say "Jim's off to Europe" or "Fred's back from Europe." Europe is elsewhere. Thirdly, Europe means the EU.

In contemporary British usage, these three meanings are very often elided, but in political debate the third is predominant. In this sense, the question "is Britain European?" comes down to asking: is Britain fully participating in the EU? Is it supporting some version of what people in continental Europe would recognise as the European project?”

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