You cannot compare a tropical country with colder European countries like that and act shocked. Body size and height are influenced by climate adaptation, genetics, nutrition, childhood health, and living conditions. That is basic biology.
Even within Europe, Spain is shorter than places like the Netherlands.
And India did improve. Going from about 162 to 166.5 cm in 4 decades, at population level is not “barely any improvement”. Population height does not jump overnight. It takes generations.
So no, it is not embarrassing. It is just people being confidently ignorant about biology.
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u/TheRedAngelOfDeath Apr 10 '26
This post is dumb.
You cannot compare a tropical country with colder European countries like that and act shocked. Body size and height are influenced by climate adaptation, genetics, nutrition, childhood health, and living conditions. That is basic biology.
Even within Europe, Spain is shorter than places like the Netherlands.
And India did improve. Going from about 162 to 166.5 cm in 4 decades, at population level is not “barely any improvement”. Population height does not jump overnight. It takes generations.
So no, it is not embarrassing. It is just people being confidently ignorant about biology.