A common issue with professional dance in China is finding suitable male partners of appropriate size. The applicant pool is large enough that schools discriminate heavily on height so that the average female pre-professional student is now at 172cm in height. The average heightpic.twitter.com/j9sXCsAVIK
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of 18 year old Chinese women nationally is only 160cm. This problem is actually less acute in ballet because of upper height limits creating a band. On average men are generally 12-13 cm taller than women, coincidentally full pointe adds similar cm to a women's height. Because
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Chinese dance only uses demi-pointe, and less partner work in general, the schools select for monstrously tall women. The girls in blue and red in this case both being 178+cm amazons, which is the average height of the White American male. Thus the problem of finding suitable
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Replying to @qin_duke
Hmm, would like to breed race of super tall sons and daughters but have been reliably informed that WM AF is not allow. What do?
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Dutch and Serbian women. I recommend the latter because I have it on good authority that Dutch women are not nice.
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Only ever met one Serbian woman - very beautiful but she wasn't very tall.
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