Alt text: Chart showing average height, but incorrectly scales the entire person instead of just the height, with the Netherlands as the tallest and Indonesians as the shortest. Bottom image is the Bane vs. Pink guy meme showing Bane as the Dutch and Pink guy as the Indonesians.

    • breecher@sh.itjust.works
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      7 days ago

      Shit Americans say.

      There are more than 600 ethnic groups[2] in the multicultural Indonesian archipelago, making it one of the most diverse countries in the world.

      Source

      • Soulg@ani.social
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        Pointing out the number for one country and not the other doesn’t demonstrate anything.

        I looked it up and it does seem that there’s more diversity in Indonesia than in the US, according to the below Wikipedia article. Hopefully next time we can share information without being hostile. :)

        https://share.google/0XBU0Latoy4AIRpgs

        • breecher@sh.itjust.works
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          I didn’t reply to you. I replied to another account. The ethnicity figures for the US are as equally easy to find on the internet as the ones I posted (I found them on Wikipedia). You did not even bother to find those figures in your passive aggresive response, which is not even a response, since I replied to a different account.

          Could you focus some of that passive aggressivenesss on actually finding out the figures you are so passively aggressively defending? Or is that an impossibility?

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        Ethnicity: the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.

        That doesn’t mean they have 600 genetic lineages.

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          It seems you forgot you were talking to somebody outside of your moron country, and forgot that they would actually give a damn about your feelings over facts.

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      7 days ago

      I’m confused. Wouldn’t that support the theory?

      If lower in ethnic diversity and native Indonesians are naturally short than Indonesia would be shorter on average. Whereas the US, being such a melting pot, would have a greater range of heights bringing the overall average down, right?

      • serenissi@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        If anything it says with increasing diversity height gets closer to global average which seems pretty reasonable.

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          7 days ago

          Isn’t global male height supposed to be about 5’ 7" on average? The closest to that on the graph is the US, which has a very diverse population.

          I’m still not understanding your original comment “Not necessarily. Ethnic diversity is higher in US than in Indonesia.”

          It seems like you’re saying ethnic diversity isn’t necessarily a consideration in why the heights of the UK and US are where they are but then support the theory with the next sentence pointing out the ethnic diversity of the US.

          • serenissi@lemmy.world
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            7 days ago

            The original comment says in NL height is more cause lack of diversity. J meant that’s not necessarily the case (ie lack of diversity =/=> taller).