Shorter U.S.
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Traveling through Europe recently, I’ve been able to confirm through personal experience what statistical surveys tell us: the perceived stature of Americans is not what it was. Europeans used to look up to us; now, many of them look down on us instead.
No, I’m not talking metaphorically about our loss of moral authority in the wake of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. I’m literally talking about feet and inches. . .
[T]he Dutch are now the world’s tallest people, almost 3 inches taller, on average, than non-Hispanic American whites. The
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