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To: LindyBill who wrote (209170)	6/20/2007 11:18:13 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 794237

It’s not the population’s changing ethnic mix due to immigration: the stagnation of American heights is clear even if you restrict the comparison to non-Hispanic, native-born whites. What's white? Are Asians included? Has he heard that mixed race marriages have been happening with ever increasing frequency?

To: LindyBill who wrote (209170)	6/20/2007 3:06:21 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 794237

LB, Krugman is short. Therefore, being tall doesn't matter. Besides, Americans aren't tall any more. And he went out and scarfed up some data that he thinks proves it. So there. QED.

To: LindyBill who wrote (209170)	6/21/2007 11:06:14 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 794237

re: "life expectancy figures include our shorter lived latins..." LOL, just think how long the average Japanese would live if they were as tall as Northern Europeans! Actually, hispanics born in the USA have a longer life expectancy than non hispanic whites. So in the United States: asians (shortest in stature - on average) live longest, followed by hispanics (shorter than blacks and non hispanic whites, but taller than Asians - on average), followed by non hispanic whites and then blacks. The life expectancy of a Japanese woman (or first world Chinese woman -born for example in Singapore or Macau), and an American born woman of Japanese (or Chinese-American) ancestry is about the same. For what it is worth American territories (Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam) all have longer life expectancies than mainland USA. The French live longer than the average American - the average French man is just slightly shorter than the average American male(including Asian and Hispanic Americans). When I was in college, I was taught that all things being equal, shorter people in general lived longer than taller people - I guess Americans must have been considered on the tall side then! :o)