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orangeboats@lemmy.world 2 months agoUnfortunately not just America. Heightism is also prevalent in a big part of Asia.
This is most likely one of the quirks brought to you by Survival of the Fittest rule. Thanks, evolution.
Kalladblog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t blame evolution for some peoples’ short sightedness
dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 months ago
I see what you did there, despite evolution.
orangeboats@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, tallness surely would be a preferable criteria back then! To a certain extent, it is a proxy parameter for fitness.
I just think we can actually use evolution to explain a lot of things that we do, it doesn’t mean we should do it.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
In an evolutionary context, what does “should” mean?
orangeboats@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In the past, fitness (and hence its proxy parameters like height and other beauty standards) correlated to the survivability of your bloodline. So it makes sense that people are programmed, to a certain degree, to admire things like tallness.
Nowadays because of technology the correlation no longer exists, or at the very least it is much diminished. But the programming is still there right in our DNA, so as a people we should artificially override this natural instinct because it no longer serves a purpose.