Height discrimination

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Height discrimination is prejudice or discrimination against individuals based on height. In principle, it refers to the discriminatory treatment against individuals whose height is not within the normal acceptable range of height in a population. Various studies have shown it to be a cause of bullying, commonly manifested as unconscious microaggressions. Modern Western height discrimination originated in 19th century eugenic, Social Darwinist, and white supremacist movements, beginning with eugenicist Sir Francis Galton's observation of the correlation of human height between parents and offspring. These movements popularized pseudoscientific beliefs about the superiority of larger male stature, embodied by the Nazi height ideals within the social construct of the Aryan master race. In contrast, historical accounts of height discrimination in antiquity are uncommon. Furthermore, there is strong archeological and anthropological evidence that historically average height varied naturally...

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