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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]pp also a lot of eating disorders among women, I’ve noticed at least for French and Italian women (not Europe, but this is huge in Japan, China, and Korea as well).  There is more social pressure to be thin and less of a body positivity movement, so people really hardcore diet.  I’ve noticed less of this for Germans and Scandinavians, but very much so for French women.[/quote]

Yeah I wish more people mentioned this. Keeping thin is very much emphasized in European families.  It is simply not acceptable to be fat. Whereas American families are much more concerned about eating disorders and being sensitive to their children’s feelings. If an American mother saw her child was getting chubby, she would never say so.  Europeans have no zero problems say it, and harping on it.

I am not discounting all the other things people mentioned, but it’s also a no-nonsense mindset. [/quote]

Yeah that mindset where it's no-nonsense about keeping thin is even more common in East Asian Countries (Japan/China/Korea).[/quote]

It's been my observation that this is true for wealthy families both places but not a typical attitude. Most of the middle class Europeans I know like to eat and would never call their kids "chubby". France is really the only place where the obsession with thinness permeates the masses but even there, there are so many immigrants and multi-ethnic families that I just don't see this that much. A lot of people in Europe prefer a rounder shape. I don't know, maybe it's a hold over from being peasants when having a little meat on your bones likely made you hardier and less sickly. It's only the aristocrats and the nouveau riche who seem to care so much about being fashionably thin.[/quote]

Spain too.[/quote]

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