• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You don’t see how actually using feet as the measurement already signifies just how American it is?

    Most people in my country don’t even have an idea on how much 6ft is.

    The average height here is ~180, which translates as 5"11’.

    I have literally never in my life known a person who had 182cm as an arbitrary height limit for guys. Actually, I’ve not seen any type of height limits basically, aside from a few girls having the criteria of “I would prefer to date someone at least as tall as me.”

    Americans are a nation of short kings, lol.

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      4 months ago

      Where I live, we only use metric for height, pizza size and dick size lol.

      I have literally never in my life known a person who had 182cm as an arbitrary height limit for guys.

      You are lucky to not be surrounded by shallow people, I suppose.

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        4 months ago

        No no, a lot of them are extremely shallow.

        Just not about height.

        Like I’m sure no-one around you considers someone showing their ankle or elbow to be indecent, but you know a lot of people used to. Or I mean I don’t know where you live, you might live in a country where that still applies, but I don’t think it’s likely.

        Back then ankles and elbows were inherently sexy because of the taboo. For some reason height is sexy for Americans, but people just don’t focus as much on it in some cultures I guess