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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did anyone mention ethnicity?   Asian men are genetically short.  The average height is 5’5” for many Asian countries. Specifically India is 5’6”.

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I don't think stating average height in other countries is helpful...presumably OP's son has been raised in the US with some semblance of an American diet.[/quote]
Genetics, not diet. Japanese people are also genetically shorter.[/quote]

I don't think genetics exist in a vacuum without other factors at play. Diet, environmental factors, etc impact height. That's why I don't think looking at the average height of a man in another country is really all that relevant. [/quote]
+1 even within each race, people are taller now than they were 100 years ago because of diet and other environmental factors.

Celiac disease or other environmental factors can make one shorter.[/quote]
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A perfect example of two groups of the same ethnicity that have different average heights is Koreans.  North Koreans are shorter than South Koreans because they lack the nutrition that South Koreans have. [/quote]

North Korea is extreme in their lack of food and everything else that makes life worth living.

Genetics matter in African tribes who segregate   The Dinka tribe in South Sudan has an average height of over 6 feet tall.  More than a few are 7 feet tall men. Women are close in height.  The citizens in the Republic of Sudan have an average height of 5.5”

Sudan people have had civil wars and genocides for decades.  South Sudan is now independent. That’s a huge height difference for all of the Sudanese people even though they have had the same problems.

America is not a tall country.

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Indeed, I  never stated that only diet matters. I agreed with a PP that genes AND environment AND diet matters.[/quote]

Only if you live in a country that has famine. Which isn’t the case here.[/quote]

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