I've seen many Filipinos in Canada as well and most of them are of average size and are quite slender and fit. I think it has more to do with lifestyle rather than genes.

Are tall groups generally less robust than shorter groups? Taiwan Aborigines and Filipinos seem short compared to e.g Thais, who might be Korean height when they nutritionmax.

Koreans, who are 3-4cm shorter than northern Han in potential, seem to be wider in build and the Japanese who are 3-4cm shorter than Koreans, might be the widest East Asian proportionally speaking.

In Europe, the taller groups are generally more narrow and slimmer than the shorter groups.

I think there is a stereotype in China that Sichuanese people are short, but part of this is probably poverty and low vitamin D. Urban Chengdu zoomers are probably 5'9 and Daics might end up decent height.

I also know quite a few “slender and fit” 1.5 gen and 2nd gen Filipino Americans. But the frequency of heavier set people among Fil-Ams I’ve met IRL (which isn’t the same thing as being overweight! Although more of them are overweight looking) is higher than that of every other major East/Southeast Asian group.


Sichuanese are almost certainly genetically shorter than Northern Chinese in the same sense Guangdong people are, but I agree with your point on poverty and low UV levels limiting realized height. Anecdotally, my cousin’s spouse from Chengdu is around 6’ or possibly a little taller.

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I really don't think there exists a inversely proportionate correlation between height and the level of robustness, it's not necessarily the case that the taller a person is the less robust he or she will be. There're a lot of variations in terms of body types. For instance, many Northern Chinese are tall and robust, whereas a lot of Far South Chinese are short and gracile.

Tall and robust, tall and gracile, short and robust, short and gracile, all 4 types exist.

She looks similar to the ones I posted prior.

I think your height stats are outdated. Young Thais are 172+ now, Koreans are 174+ and heightmaxxed Nhan will end up around 178.

Thanks for bringing that up, I almost forgot about it, that's one of the major physical differences between Northern Chinese and South Chinese. Sometimes you don't even have to look for other features, you can just tell who is northerner by simply looking at his or her back of the head. The ones with flat back heads are most likely northerners.

To answer your questions, yes I was made to sleep flat on the back of my head as an infant by my maternal grandparents (who were of Hebei origin), cause when I was small my parents were busing working so they didn't have time to look after me, and my paternal grandparents (who were of Sichuan origin) didn't want to look after me, that's why I ended up at the home of my maternal grandparents and my back head had been made flat by them. I couldn't tell exactly how common was it during my generation (I was born in the early 90's), but according to my observations it was still rather common at that time.

The flat back of the head is the feature that I dislike the most about myself. I really wish that I could have a round back head like the southerners and the westerners. I remember once I jokingly told one of my Guangxi friends (she was very pretty and had typical FSC / SE Asian features) that I envy her head shape because my back head is flat, she thanked me at first, but then removed me from her WeChat. It seems that some southern girls really dislike guys with such features.

I really hope that such barbaric practice can be stopped. It's as disgusting and backward as foot-binding. If foot-binding had been exterminated due to the collective effort of Chinese people and government, then why can't infant head deformation be stopped? 

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I just found this paper which reports ~46% O1/O-F265 in Guangxi Han (n = 65, though subclades not reported it looks like from figure 1 that GX Han O1 does not cluster separately from ethnic minority O1)