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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:19:37 -0700
Subject: Re: Apocalypto: The Most Powerful Film Of All Time
On Sep 4, 3:03 am, "G. M. Watson" <an...@intergate.ca> wrote:
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Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:07:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Apocalypto: The Most Powerful Film Of All Time
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 05:34:51 +0100, "Stone me" <stran...@corrall.msx
wrote:
Did you include this to check if anyone had read it?
Peoples of the world have differing heights for a number of
reasons. For example, some desert tribes of Africa are very
thin and tall while others who live in forested areas are shorter.
Some have speculated that these peoples have evolved a
beneficial characteristic. Those in desert areas have a smaller
profile to the sun, while people in forested areas would have no
advantage.
Although there is increasing evidence that diet plays a bigger
difference than previously thought - with "races" thought to be short
in the past fitting into international standards with diet changes.
This is very evident with the Chinese and Japanese whose average height has
increased since WWII. The change is attributed to a change in diet.
Yes; more animal protein. Which is why, as a long-time student of Japanese
culture, I thought the contrast-in-height gag (Bill Murray towering over an
elevator full of identical, peanut-sized Japanese businessmen) near the
beginning of Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" was so offensively stupid
and stereotypical-- near-racist, in fact-- that it took me three years to
get around to watching the rest of the film.
Well, I don't know, GM -- whenever I'm in a museum with a lot of tour
groups, I'll tend to follow the Japanese tour group, because I'm
generally speaking a head taller than everyone in the Japanese tour
group -- and Murray and I are the same height.
John Harkness
