Why mexicans are short

Denver's independent source of local news and culture. Ask a Mexican. Gustavo Arellano April 29, AM. Dear Mexican: I live in a Northeastern city, and a game I play with myself during the cold, wintry months is counting how many Mexicans I see without a heavy coat or appropriate outer garment.

Believe me, I'm not prejudiced I, too, am a minority, and this game is lightweight compared to some of the games I play involving my own race , but I'd like to know: Why do so many Mexicans prefer to brave the elements in just a long-sleeved shirt or a sweater?

Is it a cultural thing, like "I don't need no stinkin' coat? Now, why would a good negrito do that? You won't find the Mexican quoting Stepin Fetchit or Mantan Moreland, although I did steal my beautiful grin from the darkies of yore because gabachos demand consistency in their racial caricatures.

But, yes: Mexicans don't need no stinkin' coat. Large-scale Mexican immigration to the frozen Northeast and upper Midwest is a relatively recent phenomenon; like not flushing our soiled toilet paper and distrusting tap water, buying the various layers needed to properly weather a snowstorm is a custom that most icebacks still need to learn.

Besides, it's not like the Mexis who unwittingly constitute your game are prancing around desnudos ; as you noted, they'll at least have some layers against the elements. After all, what's a snow flurry when President Barack Obama has yet to make any push for amnesty, or when the bigoted, corrupt shade of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has now spread across Arizona?

Dear Mexican: Why is it Americans think Mexicans are all short? I've been around various communities of Mexicans in California and in Mexico, and I see a wide variety of height, from short to tall. I'm thirty years old and 5 feet, Could this be a recent phenomenon of all the shorter Mexican nationals coming from Oaxaca and other regions near Guatemala?

Because we all know chapines are the shortest in Central America! Apparently, the Dutch in the Netherlands are among the tallest people in the world! According to Conaive, Mexico was the first Latin American country to carry out a study of the average weight and height of its population. The average height for young women was cms versus cms for young men. The heaviest men and women, on average, were in the age range. Men in that age category weighed an average of Because the Native Americans of Mexico were very short and well you know how genetics work.

Recently there are more tall people because of European Genes from I don't know where. But all American countries are conformed of immigrants from all over the world. Perhaps the Mexican average is less than the Polish, but for example, at the north of Mexico the people is so tall comparatively to the south Mexican people.

Read more comments. Aztecs and indigenous tend to be shorter, but that averaged with spanish genes, so despite sounding a lot racist, the whiter, the taller. MasterGeekMX: I read somewhere that cortez had written that aztecs were the same height as them, as for "the whiter the taller", black people are very tall. I don't know xD I'm tall 1. I'm 1,70 and I'm considered of medium stature.

For you to say that ALL Mexicans are short is quite ignorant from your part since there are million people living in Mexico and not all are short. My cousin is Mexican and he is 1,92 and my aunt is 1,77 which is quite tall for a woman anywhere in the world. Please don't generalize and don't assume based off on stereotypes.