What makes you think this? I live in Europe and Scandinavians are very similar in build to other Europeans. I get the impression your not a European.
Ok, I'll level with you, strongest man contests gave me that impression.
I'm sure there are many normal sized scandinavians.
But I think you need to have a look at west africans, most of them are quite small.
The reality is europeans of all kinds are fairly big, in relation to the rest of the world, there's lots of small ones, but then you get huge ones. White people aren't the "average" sized people of earth, they're on the largish side.
Bigger even than true natural west africans.
Ex slaves of west african descent are arguably bigger than white people on average, but west africans aren't. No native populations in africa are that large.
I'm sure nutrition has something to do with it, but I don't think nutrition is an adequate explanation for the size difference between african americans and west africans.
But Lithuanians? There are many living in London, and again they share a similar physique with other Europeans.
Maybe, but look at world's strongest man contests and also the power events at the olympics, scandinavians, lithuanians and russians seem to dominate these events.
After that the odd samoan, and then other white people from multicultural countries, west africans don't represent in sports like this at all.
They're not that big. In relation to the tiny kenyans and ethiopians and bushmen of the kalahari they are, and compared to the sudanese and massai they are stout and muscular, but I think people can't help picturing north american and carribean "west africans" when they think of west africans, and this is misleading.
It's my theory that these people dominate the resource rich areas of central and west Africa because they beat other racial types in conflict (including the east African type that you referred to). It's really the development of weapons which has given us the edge over them.
Interesting theory.
Just for the record though I don't want anyone thinking I'm arguing for the sake of "why white people have an edge over africans".
Nothing like that is entering my head, I'm interested in this topic purely like I'm interested in comparing dog types (my favourite subject).
The upright smooth hominids known as humans are an animal which intrigues me.
I get accused of racism sometimes but it's not like I hold any one group on a pedestal.
If you want to go down that road obviously it's not physical strength that gives some humans a dominant edge over others, I mean east asians are the closest genuine rivals to white people as far political dominance of earth is concerned, and they are relatively small and weak.
Meanwhile they dominate elephants which leave shaq for dead.
Human society is sadly far past any physical attributes determining status.
Possibly. But since there is a greater genetic variation between Africans than all other races, it's hard to see why the inclusion of any other race in a breeding program would be necessary.
I've been faced with this argument before, and it seems reasonable on the surface, but the flaw is it's not a matter of whether or not it's necessarry.
Why is there a concerted effort to explain african americans using only african populations?
The reality is african americans descend from western africans, they aren't mixes of western africans and other types of african, they're much more likely to be mixes of western africans and europeans, and this is sufficient in explaining their size.
And actually I'm not even confident if mixing short muscular west africans with 7 foot tall lean sudanese people would create huge people rather than a mix of tall and muscular people.
People that are 6' 7" + and mesomorphic don't exist in africa, naturally only white people reach those proportions with any degree of regularity, it's actually quite likely the huge african american pro-athletes are borrowing from white ancestors with the statures they posess, the west african influence tightens it up and makes them extremely nimble and explosive for their size, and this is why brownish people dominate sports in america.
Basically the best man is a mongrel, so ultimately a positive message comes from what is mistakenly deemed a contraversial and potentially offensive issue.
There's no reality which is offensive to a group of people, because all people evolved as perfect for their lifestyle in their environement.
It's the not-discussing issues like this which allows racism to persist.
